New Episodes
All the newest episodes from the podcast – a mixture of interviews, solo shows, reviews, stories and travel
Ep 160 – Dorset Buttons with Tania Ashton Jones of TJ Frog
Dorset Buttons with Tania Ashton Jones Tania Ashton Jones of TJ Frog joins me to talk all about Dorset Buttons....
Ep 159 – Socktober, the Month of Socks
Socktober, the Month of Socks Socktober lends its inspiration this week, where I have a rundown of ten previous banging’...
Ep 158 – You Forget What You Know
When it comes to knitting resources, you often forget what you know. That is to say, that what might seem...
Ep 157 – The RAF Comforts Committee
The RAF Comforts Committee The RAF Comforts Committee was formed by the Air Council in October 1939 to determine the...
Ep 152 – Choose Your Own Adventure
Choose Your Own Adventure with your Knitting This week there’s a new home for the podcast community on the horizon....
Ep 151 – Going Local
Introduction Going local is the inspiration for this week’s show, where we talk about extending choosing local beyond yarn choices....
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 169 – Knitting Challenges For 2021
Ep 167 – A Pod of Christmas Past
Ep 166 – A Scotch Egg is Not a Substantial Knit