Episode 286: It Got a Little More into the Weeds

Recorded May 9, 2024

Our Summer Tops KAL has begun and goes until to June 1, 2024.  To enter your  top in our prize thread, it must be an adult-sized top that you consider to be appropriate for use in the summer, and we will leave the parameters of that to you!  Come chat with us about summer tops on our KAL thread, and check out our Summer Tops bundle for pattern ideas!

Every Saturday at noon Pacific time - Virtual Knitting Group via Zoom

EVENTS

Tracie and Barb will be at:

• Treadles to Threads Spinning Guild's Fiber Frolic - June 1 at the Soul Food Farm outside Vacaville, CA

 

KNITTING

Barb Finished:

• 2 Knockers
• Rock It Tee #2 by Tanis Lavalee, using Knit Picks Lindy Chain, in the colors Clarity, Rouge, and U Blue
• Mother Bear #291

 

Tracie finished:

• Knitted Knockers - 10 f0r 2024
• 3 Mother Bears
• Posie Doll by Manon Lemaire in worsted weight from stash
• Scraps Chaps Pig by Barbara Prime in Plymouth Encore in Peach
• Rachel #3 by Josée Paquin in white Juniper Moon Farms Zooey and other assorted bits of cotton/linen/silk

 

Barb working on:

• Knitted Knockers
• Pinnacles Hat by Nancy Bates, from the Knitting the National Parks by Nancy Bates, using a kit

 

Barb has frogged:  

• Tresoro Cardigan by Isabel Kraemer, using Knit Picks Hawthorne in the Bare colorway

 

Barb has cast On:

• Gardengate by Jennifer Steingass, using Cloudborn Merino Superwash Sock Twist in the Graphite Heather colorway and Cloudborn Fibers Highland Fingering in the Petal colorway
• Bankhead hat #28 by Susie Gourley

Tracie continues to work on:

Fiddly Bits cowl #11 by Jana Pihota

Elorie by Elizabeth Doherty in Berroco Remix in Artichoke

 

 

BOOKS

Barb read:

The Last Dive: A Father and Son’s Fatal Descent into the Ocean’s Depths by Bernie Chowdury - 5 stars

Red Zone: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the San Francisco Dog Mauling by Aphrodite Jones - 4 stars

Calypso by David Sedaris - 5 stars

 

Tracie read:

Butcher on the Moor by Ric Brady - 3 stars

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Iggie’s House by Judy Blume - 4 stars

Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson - 4 stars

Ms. Demeanor by Elinor Lipman - 4 stars

While She Slept: A Husband, A Wife, A Brutal Murder by Marion Collins - 4 stars