Fiber Beat, Episode 22: "Ravel-ution" featuring Jess & Casey Forbes
Media Link: Ravel-ution (49:47)
There's a million crafters in Fiber City and we've all got a yarn to spin.
This episode of Fiber Beat is made possible with the support of Entangled magazine, our brand new sponsor from New Zealand! Entangled is a new digital only, quarterly fibercraft publication. Issue Two featuring Wool & the Gang, Wooly Wormhead, and Donna Druchunas is out now and available through Zinio
I’d like you to stop for a moment and think about your fiber journey, passion, obsession, call it what you will. If you are a relatively new knitter such as me (I started in 2004), it’s hard to remember life Before Ravelry. How did we organize patterns, find errata support, show our finished projects to others & interact with our fellow fiber junkies?
It wasn’t until Ravelry, that we actually had a nice digital clubhouse to hang out in, get to know one another, learn about yarn, patterns & tools and share all that information with everyone. Ravelry’s ethos supports the underdog, the indie designer, the local yarn stores, the podcasts or a kid who’s just discovered knitting and wants to know MORE. All across the country and even across the globe users have found friends and fiber crafters online when they couldn’t find them in their own towns.
Today on Fiber Beat, I catch up with the founders & creators of Ravelry, Jess & Casey Forbes. We talk about the RavAdventure thus far and what the future might hold.
Ravelry is truly more than the sum of its parts: Jess’ inspiration, Casey’s innovation and the input of thousands upon thousands of users. These initial elements have combined to create something bigger, a social media phenomenon that is fun AND productive. This is NO facebook for knitters. Thank you Jess & Casey (and also Mary-Heather & Sarah) for this most wonderful gift of Ravelry. I really can’t thank you all enough!
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Fiber Beat CONTEST for Episode No. 22
We've got a rare, out of production tote bag from Ravelry. It's the Fiber Animal Parade tote and it will not be made again (at least not in this fabric and by these folks)!
All you have to do to enter the drawing for this prize, is answer the following question: What is the thing you find most indispensable, the thing that you could NOT live without on Ravelry? My favorite tool is the user groups which enables Fiber Beat to interact with our listeners. . You can leave your answer on fiberbeat.com or on the Fiber Beat Ravelry forum. Winners will be randomly selected from all the entries. DEADLINE FOR ENTERING IS August 31, 2011.
A massively organized thank you to Jess & Casey for being on the Fiber Beat. Big shout out to new Fiber Beat sponsor, Entangled magazine. Finally, the most sociable media-tastic wave to all of you, our loyal listeners, for downloading and listening to our first TWENTY-NINE episodes (audio/video) of Fiber Beat! If you like what we do, please consider leaving a review on iTunes.
We used snippets of all the songs below in this episode. If you like the music, please support the artists (links provided for your convenience):
- "Fiber Beat theme" performed by Anthony Bonet from exclusive to Fiber Beat (2011)
- "Bob" performed by The Merry Poppins from Inspector Malosso (office4music.com, 2009)
- "Better Together " performed by Jack Johnson from Rhythms del Mundo Cuba (Ape Vision Ltd, 2006)
- "Surprise, Surpise " performed by The Rolling Stones from Singles Collection: The London Years (Remastered) (Abkco, 1989)
- "It's A Wonderful World" performed by Irene Kral with the Junior Mance Trio from Better Than Anything (Time Records, 1964)
- "Cloud 5" performed by Brian Eno from Drums Between The Bells (Warp, 2011)
- "Ba Ba Black Sheep" performed by MusicBoxfrom Music Box Lullabies (Octagon Music, 2009)
- "Pretty As A Picture " performed by Dean Martin from The Capitol Years (Capitol, 2004)
- "Walkabout " performed by Red Hot Chili Peppers from One Hot Minute (Warner Brothers, 1995)
- "Chatterbox " performed by Al Bowlly from Blue Skies (Classic Records, 2007)
- "Viva Las Vegas!" performed by Elvis Presley from The Essential Elvis Presley (RCA, 2009)
- "Facebook Girl " performed by Slow Children at Play from Facebook Girl (Slow Children at Play, 2009)
- "Friends" performed by Elton John from Rare Masters (Polydor, 1992)
- "Eloise" performed by Dave Frishberg from Dave Frishberg At The Jazz Bakery: Retromania (Arbors Records, Inc., 2006)
My name is WonderMike and I'll definitely see you on Ravelry... AND the Fiber Beat!!
