Podcast Episode 91: I-Cord Revisited

Built-in and applied I-cord are great techniques for giving a polished look to your projects. Kelley gives tips on making it perfect — don’t be intimidated!

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Kelley's Audiobook Recommendations

The Bee Keeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King (read by Jenny Sterlin)
A Montrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King (read by Jenny Sterlin)
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (reader by Caroline Lee)
The Labyrinth by Kate Moss
Sparkling Cyanide, Why Didn’t They Ask Evan, The Secret of Chimneys and They Came To Bagdad by Agatha Christie
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brien (read by Simon Vance)
A Morbid Taste For Bones by Ellis Peters
Bethleham Road by Anne Perry (read by Davina Porter)

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Comment by KnitnTel on April 11, 2009 at 5:54am: Hi Kelley
I havent had a chance to listen to the i-cord podcast yet, but, knowing how much you love your I-pod I wondered if you had seen the I-cord Headphone sleeves. This is the link to the ravelry site: Icord head phone sleeves
But you have to go a fair way into the thread to find the actual pattern, so I have paste it in here for you:
cast on 4 stitches for the I-cord at the base than when I got all the way to the fork I increased 2 stitches and started essentially knitting it in a round using 4 needles so that it would be tight. Once I was past the fork and at the base of the 2 wires I put 3 of the stitches on waste yarn and continues knitting the other 3 into an I-cord around one wire. Once I finished that wire I went back and knitted the other. I’m still experimenting with the wonders of the I-cord, I know there is more that can be done with it…

Comment by Peg of Tilling on April 10, 2009 at 8:11am: Can you use the i-cord technique to make fingers for gloves? You'd need more than three stitches, of course...

ESPN is showing the University of Georgia intra-squad spring game tomorrow at 1pm EST. It may not be a good game, but it's college and it's football :) .

Comment by drumlish on April 9, 2009 at 8:32pm: Kelly - thanks for you for demonstrating the iCord instructions. I was making the petal baby bib and had never heard of it before. The instructions were really clear and I've made 3 bibs now. Cheers!

Comment by Knittenator on April 9, 2009 at 8:24pm: Try Sophie Thompson reading "Mary Poppins" (if you like kidlit; I find it comforting while I knit!); "Cheerfulness Breaks In" by Angela Thirkell (read by Nadia May) for English country life before WWII; Edward Petherbridge reading any of the Dorothy Sayers mysteries (I prefer him to Ian Carmichael). Anyone know if there are any of the classic Ngaio Marsh/Inspector Alleyn mysteries in audio format with a great reader? I agree about Hercule Poirot, BTW, Kelley -- Miss Marple all the way.

Comment by banklady6 on April 9, 2009 at 12:57pm: Listening to Kelly talk about audioboos on her podcasts got me interested in them as well. I recently started getting through Simply Audio..wonderful place, and not really a bad deal as I rent them..what a new world for me! I'm abig mystery fan, and the Christie books are already in my queue..i can't wait!

Comment by Bethany Mickle on April 9, 2009 at 8:51am: Kelly, I know you've mentioned loving The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, but have you ever read The Woman in White by the same? I think you'd enjoy it.

If you like Public Radio podcasts, you may also want to try The Classic Tales Podcast. It's a free podcast produced by an actor in California every week, and he reads short stories or does a serial production of longer novels.

Comment by Maux Boyle on April 8, 2009 at 5:25pm: You forgot to mention actual iCord bind-off. I'm doing one of those right now and I realized the same logic could be reversed for an iCord cast on. (Also, I quite agree that a bad narrator can spoil an audiobook.)