Episode 233: We Love Our Weater SKAL!

Recorded on September 22, 2021

Book Talk starts at 28:01

The 2021 2 Knit Lit Chicks Fall Sweater KAL has begun!  All the info you need to know is here on the Sweater KAL Chatter Thread. 

Virtual get-together via Zoom on Saturdays, 12 noon  PST - Details here

 

KNITTING

Tracie finished:

• Ice River Hat by Helen Stewart in Skeino Venice (Don Carlo cw)
• ribbed beanie (no pattern) in Euro Baby Kaleidoscope
• Bankhead Hat #5 Susie Gourlay
• Vanilla Socks in Lollipop Quintessential Gripes Still Crazy
• Fiddly Bits-style cowl in my handspun from fiber by Woolgatherings Polwarth/Silk

Barb finished:

• Mother Bear 248

Tracie cast on:

• Punchline by Hanna Maciejewska in Forbidden Fibers Co. Pride LF in Black Emerald
• All Work, Gnome Play MKAL by Sarah Schira in Apple Fiber Studio McIntosh in Happy Hammock, Plucky Knitter Sophisticate in Sugar Ribbon, and Wool Addicts Love by Lang Yarns in Creme

And continues to work on:

• Octave by Dee O’Keeffe in Invictus Yarns Adventure Double Sock Blank in Hermie Oak Segue

Barb continues to work on:

• That's My Jam by Steven Fegert, using a kit bought from Learning Men Fiber Arts, using their MCN blend Show Stealer.
• Vanilla socks using Knit Circus Greatest of Ease in the Electric Mayhem colorway
• Mimosa by Boo Knits, using Hazel Knits Artisan Sock in the Giddy Up colorway
• Architexture Cowl by Jennifer Weismann, using Leading Men Fiber Arts Box Office in the Blue Ink colorway
• Be Kind Hat #7 by Melissa Simpson, using worsted scraps

She has cast on:

• Gnome MKAL All Work, Gnome Play, using fingering leftovers from my stash
• V-Back Tee by Jamie Hoffman, using The Farmer’s Daughter Fibers Foxy Lady in Stagecoach Mary, Heartbreak Hotel, Missoula Saturday Night, and Honky Tonkin
• r. e. d. By Hinterm Stein, using Cloudborn Highland DK in the Silver Heather colorway

BOOKS 

Tracie read:

• The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan - 4 stars
• Minding Miss Manners: In An Era of Fake Etiquette by Judith Martin - 5 stars
• Cold Heart: The Great Unsolved Mystery of Turn of the Century Buffalo by Kimberly Tilley - 3 stars
• I Know Your Secret by Ruth Heald - 2 stars

Barb read:

• The Mountain of my Fear/Deborah: a Wilderness Narrative by David Roberts - 4 stars
• The Watergate Girl by Jill Wine-Banks - 5 stars