Cate Carter-Evans is an American dyer, knitter, weaver, spinner, and seamstress recently transplanted to Singapore after almost eight years in China. Cate dyes yarn and fiber, designs knitting patterns, weaves on her great-grandmother’s antique floor loom, and spins on a wheel made by her Dad. She loves gardening, canning, preserving, and fermenting, and will put kimchi on almost anything. She shares her projects on Infinite Twist’s blog.
All her activities are over-seen by two unimpressed Shanghainese street cats and a three-legged dog of unknown provenance.
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Here are links to items discussed in the show:
- The Box Bag Tutorial from Truly Myrtle
- The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Katz
- Wikipedia entry about appam.
We hope you enjoy this week’s conversation with Cate Carter-Evans. We’re always looking for guests, so let us know if there is someone you’d like us to have on the show.–Gary and Christine
I was very glad to hear I am also a weird collector of all kinds of implements, tools, etc for knitters. I have been able to purchase at a thrift store, for almost nothing, a huge amount of antique crochet hooks, which are unavailable among the newer versions today. I needed one to continue making a tablecloth which had been put away and lost the specific hook for it, due to my many moves around the world.
The “collection” part of these hobbies is dangerous, in a very fun way. Thanks for listening.
Gary
I enjoyed this podcast immensely. It was nice to hear her story and yet it was done in such a relaxed conversational way.
Glad you enjoyed the show and thanks for listening.
Gary
Loved this podcast. Would love to know where to get the scarf pattern she talked about at the beginning of the show.
Tabitha,
Thanks for listening. I’ll forward your message to Cate and ask her to help you out.
Gary
Hi Tabitha, Thanks for the question! Here’s a link to the pattern on Ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bifrost-2