Ep. 105 Welcome to Episode 105, where we discuss Diet and Depression; Making a blanket out of a sweater gone wrong; Making Log Cabin Mitts out of Buffalo Yarn; and the Reintroduction of the Condor along the North Coast.
Brainy Thing: 15:16 Behind the Redwood Curtain: 27:41
What we’re learning from our Knitting:
Catherine plays too little/too much with her Caron Big Cake (https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/caron-big-cakes) a 100% acrylic yarn. But she’ll end up with a smaller baby sized blanket and blanket squares for a charity blanket. 
Margaret tries out Buffalo Wool Company Prairie (bison and silk) https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/stunning-string-studio-prairie on a pair of log cabin mitts https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/log-cabin-mitts by Karen Templer. Great yarn and a fun pattern.
Margaret tries out Buffalo Wool Company Prairie (bison and silk) https://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/stunning-string-studio-prairie on a pair of log cabin mitts https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/log-cabin-mitts by Karen Templer. Great yarn and a fun pattern.Brainy Thing:
Is there a relationship between diet and depression? Catherine reports on recent research designed to show the impact of a healthy, modified Mediterranean and depression. (It helped.) https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323194.php
Behind the Redwood Curtain:
Margaret discovers the history of the condor along the North Coast and exciting news that they will be reintroduced. https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/bringing-prey-go-neesh-home/Content?oid=14060254A Little Podcast Business:
We miss podcasting as much and plan to increase the number of podcasts we’re putting out PLUS we have a yarn give away.
After a few months on a less frequent schedule for our podcast, Catherine and I have missed it and plan now to put out a podcast about once a month. It may vary a bit — 3 weeks or 5 weeks but somewhere around one podcast a month. For the time being, we’ll stick to the same format.
And, as a special treat today, we have a giveaway from the stash — a beautiful handspun, thick and thin, skein of 100% BFL or blue face leister totally 100 gram and containing 106 meters. It has a marled look with green, a medium dark purple, tan and a offwhite. It is from Friday Studios. The first one to request this yarn in the 105 episode thread will receive it.
n episode 105 of Teaching Your Brain to Knit we share our knitting stories with buffalo wool, the log cabin mitts, blankets and blanket squares. We report on research about the effect of diet on depression and the reintroduction of the condor in the Northcoast.
Until next time.
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