New Episodes
All the newest episodes from the podcast – a mixture of interviews, solo shows, reviews, stories and travel
Ep 131 – How To Get The Most From A Knitting Show
Got yarn show plans for 2019? Are you a show veteran? or have you never been to a show? Somewhere...
Ep130 – Daria Rakowski of Cloud 9 Fiberworks
Daria Rakowski is our guest today to discuss widely varying subjects from eyelash yarn merkins(!) to an overview of the...
Ep129 – Knitting Trends for 2019
Five Knitting Trends for 2019 What will be the five big trends for knitting in 2019? In this episode I...
Ep 128 – Planning a Year of Knitting
Do You Plan Your 2019 Knitting? It’s always a popular time to plan your projects for the coming new year,...
Ep127 – Christmas Jumpers
Christmas Jumpers Love them or hate them, Christmas Jumpers are everywhere at this time of year. Christmas Jumper Day is...
Ep 126 – A Hat For Every Eventuality
Everyone needs more knitted hats in their life, and today I share seven pattern ideas for hats. I’ve been out...
Interviews
Hear from all your favourite indie hand dyers, designers and yarn producers, their stories and how they create the yarns and patterns you get to work with.
Inspiration
Be heartily enabled with all the best and most exciting new pattern releases, books, yarns and events. Take your knitting to the next level with bags of new ideas!
Entertainment
Stories, funny patterns, knitting mishaps, jokes and more – if you’d hear it round a table at the pub with your knitting buddies, you’ll likely find it here.
Show Host
Jo Milmine
Jo Milmine is a multi-award winning podcast host with six years’ experience of producing her own show. She became the voice of the Shinybees knitting podcast whilst living in rural South Africa and has taken the show on a round the world knitting adventure ever since. Featured by The Guardian, The Knitter, Knitty, Knit Now and pretty much every other knitting publication, Shinybees was awarded ‘Best UK Podcast of 2016’ at the New Media Europe Awards and ‘Most Engaged Audience of 2015’ at the UK Podcast Awards. Likes: Tunnocks Tea Cakes, Gin, Dogs in Comedy Knitwear, Pickled Onion Monster Munch, Self Striping Yarn. Dislikes: Speckled Yarn, Marmite, Reverse Stockinette Stitch, Man Buns, Being Serious.
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Featured Guests
Here are just a few of my fantastic past guests on the podcast. Hear about their journeys into working in the knitting industry as well as what inspires them to create the amazing yarns and patterns we enjoy.
Ep 140: Knit Accessories, Essentials and Variations
Ep139 – New Normal
Ep 138 – Can’t Think of a Title