S1 E8: Knitting 365 with Martyn

Hello yarn lovers, and a very Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to you all!

Tonight I’m feeling very full - both of Sunday Roast and gratitude for this past year! It seems like life is moving at breakneck speed lately, and I’m working so hard to keep up!

My next guest on the Make Joy podcast, Martyn, leads an equally busy life, and I’m kind of in awe of everything he manages to accomplish with a day job, knitting on multiple projects, and keeping up with writing his Substack and creating content for his YouTube channel, Knit365 Blog. Plus not to mention visiting a lot of yarn shows - and even teaching at them too!

I really love that Martyn refers to himself as an “accidental knitter”, as well as a “knitter who also crochets”. It’s a great story that Martyn tells about how he became a knitter and hope you find it as charming as I did.

We also chatted about Martyn’s superfan status with TOFT yarns and becoming a creature himself within Edward’s Menagerie. Making one wonder, if you were going to be recreated in animal amigurumi form, which animal would you be?? Not all of us will get to answer that questions, but Martyn has, and he’s also found a unique way to celebrate the anniversary of his namesake bear with TOFT in raising funds for The Wildwood Trust.

Like many IG and internet friends, Martyn and I always seem to know each other from running into each other at various yarn shows, so it was absolutely lovely to have a proper catch up. This is a VERY chatty episode, clocking in around 90 minutes, so settle in with a cuppa and your latest project for some proper yarn-y chat. Apologies for the timer on the player - I’m not sure what happened with the upload of the file but I promise it really isn’t 5 hours long!

We talk about community a lot, and how awesome knitters and makers are, plus Martyn also shares his best tips for visiting yarn shows. You know Make Joy is coming up! And Martyn will be there too as one of the panelists on Knitters’ Question Time. Don’t forget, early bird tickets are only available until November 1st.

Enjoy the episode, and happy stitching!

Allison x

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