Sunday, June 30, 2013

Geek Girl Crafts Podzine: Issue 4!


The FOURTH edition of the Geek Girl Crafts Podzine is now available!




In this issue, we have:
  • Notes from the Editor
  • Podcasting: an How-to Overview  -- Interested in podcasting? Jade gives you a high-level overview of how to get started.
  • Mathematics and Science in Yarn -- Jade discusses how mathematicians and scientists are using fiber arts to discover more about certain theories, and are actually disproving whole theories with crocheted items!
  • Crafting Memories with Scrapbooking -- During our interview with Jean Martin, she spoke about her love for scrapbooking, and now she expounds more about the topic. She creates scrapbooks from all the photos she takes at every fannish event.

Download the PDF file

You can also find our podzine at, http://efanzines.com/GGCP/
And you can also peruse all the other interesting fanzines available!


Interested in Contributing to the Next PodZINE?

Let us know how you like it! And if you want to contribute to our podzine, we're currently taking submissions for articles, photographs, fan art, flash fiction, and whatnought, for everything geek AND craft related.
  • Contact Us: ggcpodcast AT gmail.com

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Episode 41: Bright Eyes



In this long awaited episode, the girls have a special guest host, where they geek out about the Memorial Day Con-a-poolza, and then talk about their plans for costuming in the upcoming months.We also have a special road-trip report from España on the first leg of her journey. We apologize for the delay in recording. There were some scheduling around sicknesses and lost voices.



(Click to listen! Uses Flash)





Get Geeky!

The girls and Bill talk about their experiences during the Memorial Day weekend conventions:

And we talk about some of the conventions that are happening in the area
  • WesterCon in July --- http://www.westercon.org
  • Convolution in November --- http://www.con-volution.com/
    • With special guest hosts: the Frouds and Wendy Pini

Get Craft!

Make it Sew

The three talk about upcoming  conventions and their plans for costuming for the upcoming cons

Fiber Optics:

  • Sandy is making progress on her  Apres Surf Hoodie , but an unknown infestation of bugs in her apartment has her entire stash and projects bagged up.
  • Jade is forever working on her Knit Swirl Coat and her Aran sweater and isn't making much progress with anything else. She does talk about her 3-glove curse, however.

Special Report!

España sends us a report on the first leg of her journey to Spain.