Staff Development Day Resource List

Here is the list of resources I compiled for the Staff Development Day knitting class

Online Knitting Resources, and Bricks and Mortar LYS,

ravelry
an online knitting community where you can search for patterns, join groups, add your stash and your projects, keep up with knitting news
A MUST

knitty
an online magazine with free patterns and articles: the extensive pattern archive has a new more powerful search engine

elann
Canadian company with discontinued discounted yarns , books, and free patterns

knitpicks
online store with their own yarns, patterns (free and not), tutorials

KnittingHelp
whether you knit continental style or not this site provides video instruction on demand, tips, as well as free patterns

Lion Brand Yarn
patterns (many are free), their own yarns, and knitting and crochet tutorials

Knitting Pattern Central

lots and lots of free patterns

Online shopping

Flying Fingers

Yarnzilla

Purl

Patternworks

Kaleidoscope

Jimmy Beans Wool

YarnMarket

Local Yarn Shops

What's Needling You Toms River

Wooly Monmouth Red Bank

WoolBearers Mt. Holly

Island Knits Long Beach Island

Blogs

there are so many of these out there--just a few of the ones I like--knitting shops also have blogs I especially like the Purl blog

the purl bee

Yarn Harlot

Sheep in the City

Twisted Knitter

The Blue Blog

Thing #21-PeaPodcasts

I journeyed to podcast.com and searched on "gardening" I was unsuccessful in further refining my search by typing in New Jersey or Zone 7 but since there were only 90 or so results I slogged through and selected one called Greenman Radio. I listened for a few minutes. It is a radio mail in show so the voice answered listener's questions. The greenman's voice was a little annoying but the info was good and directions thorough. I then wanted to get a sense of the range of podcasts available on the site b/c I was surprised there weren't more offerings on gardening so I went into podcast.com music folder and found something called Deadpod. These are radio shows (radio station from Columbus MO podcast a week ago)that feature sets from Grateful Dead concerts. The one I listened to was a concert the Dead did
August 29, 1980 at The Spectrum in Philadelphia. Having been a fan NOT a deadhead in the 70's this was music to my ear. This was a pleasure.

I then searched "knitting" and listened to a podcast from "Stash and Burn" wherein an addicted knitter talks herself through a 12 step program. Comforting.

Pod and vodcasting have such tremendous potential as training and teaching tools for OCL.

Like bloglines, I would not go to podcast.com to search for podcasts to subscribe to. If I found podcasts while surfing the Internet I would retrieve them that way.