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Recorded on May 28, 2024

Book talk begins at 22:55

ANNOUNCEMENTS and NEWS:

Our Summer Tops KAL is almost over, going until to June 1, 2024.  Prizes winners will be announced in Episode 288!

Our next KAL will be our annual Mother Bear KAL.  

DATES:  6/1/24 - 8/31/24

To find out all about this wonderful charity, please go to Mother Bear Project website.  Talk bears with us in the Mother Bear Chatter thread and post your finished bears in the FOs thread.  

Tracie and Barb had a discussion about the excellent YouTube video that Susan B. Anderson made showing how she embroiders faces on toys:

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

EVENTS

Tracie will be at:

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

KNITTING

Barb Finished:

• Mother Bears # 292 & #293
• Bankhead Hats #28 & #29

Tracie finished:

Mother Bears #321 - 323

• Dream in Blue Cardigan by Drops Design in pink and mint acrylic scraps
  
• Elorie by Elizabeth Doherty, using Berroco ReMix in the Artichoke colorway 
  

Barb is working 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

Barb has cast On:

• Bankhead hat #30 by Susie Gourlay using Knit Picks City Tweed HW in the Marsh Colorway
  

Tracie continues to work on:

• Fiddly Bits cowl #11 by Jana Pihota

Tracie has cast on:

• Staycation pullover by Susanne Sommer, using Zealana Performa KIWI fingering in the Rococo colorway
• Eisinberg Jacket by Guri Pederson in Paintbox Yarns Simply DK in the Spearmint Green and Blush Pink color ways

BOOKS

Barb read:

• The Rip by Holly Craig - 3 stars
  
• The Light of Farallon Island by Jen Wheeler - 4 stars
  

Tracie read:

• The Harbor by Katrine Engberg - 3.5 stars
  
• Shanghai Girls by Lisa See - 4.5 stars
  
• The Vanishing Class of 3B by Jackie Kabler - 3.5 stars
  
• Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler - 5 stars

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