Cast On began on Monday, 31 October, 2005, founded on nothing more than the desire to talk about knitting to people who get it. Since then, the podcast has evolved to focus on finding inspiration in the ordinary, using it to kick start the process of making stuff, and finding ways to carve out the creative time and space that allows you to work your ass off on the projects that matter most to you. Like knitting a sweater. Or saving the world. <br/><br/><a href="https://brendadayne.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">brendadayne.substack.com</a>
Cast On
Claim This Podcastby Brenda Dayne
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Cast On began on Monday, 31 October, 2005, founded on nothing more than the desire to talk about knitting to people who get it. Since then, the podcast has evolved to focus on finding inspiration in the ordinary, using it to kick start the process of making stuff, and finding ways to carve out the creative time and space that allows you to work your ass off on the projects that matter most to you. Like knitting a sweater. Or saving the world. <br/><br/><a href="https://brendadayne.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">brendadayne.substack.com</a>
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April 9, 2026
211 Grace Notes
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Brenda/ghost-in-the-orchard">Ghost in the Orchard</a>. Four inches from done. I’d stare at the cable chart and the tiny squares would dance. Close my eyes. Open them. Over and over. The hands that made those cables could not remember how cables worked.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endel_Tulving">Endel Tulving</a>‘s <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoding_specificity_principle">encoding specificity principle</a>. Godden and Baddeley’s divers learning words underwater. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Memory-Palace-Matteo-Jonathan-Spence/dp/0571132391">Jonathan Spence</a>‘s memory palace. And 60% of the total surface of our brains committed to our hands.</p><p>My second sweater - bricky red, carnelian buttons, the physical therapist who inadvertently retired it - became the Gaia Jacket from Jean Moss’s <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/sculptured-knits">Sculptured Knits</a>. Which became the red cabled vest I’m knitting now. Thirty years of memory in the same wool.</p><p>Serotonin stripped the filters. Melatonin locked the repair. Dopamine lit the paths. Norepinephrine broke the bridge. Memory is where it all comes home.</p><p><strong>Music:</strong> Rore, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.musicbed.com/songs/arrival/80981">Arrival</a>; Waveshaper, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.musicbed.com/songs/our-time-instrumental/59746">Our Time (Instrumental)</a></p><p>If you’d like to help support the podcast, you can do so via <a target="_blank" href="http://ko-fi.com/brendadayne"><strong>Ko-fi</strong></a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://www.patreon.com/brendadayne"><strong>Patreon</strong></a>, or by spreading the word to a fellow knitter.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://brendadayne.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">brendadayne.substack.com</a>
April 2, 2026
210 Two Bowls
<p>Tears in the kitchen. Three bananas on the counter and a recipe I know by heart but cannot, for the life of me, turn into a sequence of actions. </p><p>Seven ingredients. Too many decisions. My brain could not do seven. So I broke it down. Dry ingredients in one bowl. Wet in the other. Three and four. Manageable. The bread was good. I ate it in bed and felt unreasonably proud of myself.</p><p>The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2110630118">locus coeruleus</a> is the brain’s attention control room. When <a target="_blank" href="https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/144/8/2243/6174120">norepinephrine</a> depletes, everything arrives at equal volume. A dog barking becomes as important as the eggs.</p><p>An old friend helps out in the kitchen. And the moment when I realised the <a target="_blank" href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10148620/">invisible labour</a> I’d been doing for decades had only become visible because I could no longer do it.</p><p><strong>Music:</strong> Jude Cosmo, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.musicbed.com/songs/queen-of-angeles-no-oohs-ahhs-instrumental/95100">Queen of Angeles</a>; Waveshaper, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.musicbed.com/songs/our-time-instrumental/59746">Our Time (Instrumental)</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://brendadayne.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">brendadayne.substack.com</a>
March 28, 2026
209 Desire Paths
<p>An Eye for an Eye - would the animals we eat, eat us? Impossible Hats. Box Hill Picnic, from Jane Austen’s Emma. Dangerous Questions, where the danger is yours, not your opponent’s. This is what insomniacs get up to at 3am while you are sleeping.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/">Kent Berridge</a> coined the term <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incentive_salience">incentive salience</a>. When dopamine runs hot, everything arrives pre-lit with significance. The creativity wasn’t a symptom - it was genuine creative product on the “this matters” signal.</p><p>A <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path">desire path</a> is a trail worn into the landscape by human feet. Not planned. Just walked so many times it becomes permanent. Some of mine are still here.</p><p>Also: the duck question has a better answer than you think. And the horses are not going to like it.</p><p><strong>Music:</strong> Tony Anderson, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.musicbed.com/songs/one-perfect-sunset/76352">One Perfect Sunset</a>; Waveshaper, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.musicbed.com/songs/our-time-instrumental/59746">Our Time (Instrumental)</a></p><p>If you’d like to help support the podcast, you can do so via <a target="_blank" href="http://ko-fi.com/brendadayne"><strong>Ko-fi</strong></a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://www.patreon.com/brendadayne"><strong>Patreon</strong></a>, or by spreading the word to a fellow knitter.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://brendadayne.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">brendadayne.substack.com</a>
221 total episodes available with 5 transcripts
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