Episode 90: Ain't Nobody Got Time for That
Our Alana-Along is a wrap
(or a sweater or a pair of mitts…)
If you entered, stay tuned till the end of the podcast to find out if
you won a prize! Thanks to all who
participated
Our new KAL has begun -
the Cardi, Tank or Tee-Along will run May 1-July 1
Robin Wiest raised $1489 for
Autism Speaks with her Sprig of Hope
pattern, and she helped her LYS, Twist Knitting
and Spinning, raise over $5000 at
their Third Annual Sheep to Shawl Benefit for Autism Speaks. Congratulations and many kudos to them
all!
Click for Kiley – Kiley is a high school
senior doing a project collecting hats for the Click for Babies project to help
inform new parents about crying and Shaken Baby Syndrome. If you’d like to help by making a
purple baby hat, visit Kiley’s
Ravelry page for details.
Tracie will be at:
Fleeces, Food & Fun –
Retzlaff Winery in Livermore California - June 6, 10-4pm
Barb finished:
1 Ear Bud Pouch
by Mary Keenen – and she’s planning to make another!
3
newborn hats for the Click for Kiley project Three
Textured Baby Hats by Heather Tucker
Tracie finished
1 Knitted
Knocker (for a total of four, which she turned in at NoCKRs)
and
the Sprig
of Hope shawl by Robin Wiest
Barb worked on:
Alder Wrap by Kaffe
Fassett using many different colors of Rowan Kidsilk
Haze.
Radiance Shawl
by Helen Stewart using Highland
Handmades Mountain Laurel Lace in the White Brook colorway.
Featherweight
Cardigan by Hannah Fettig using Must
Stash Yarns Helluva Skein in the Pauo’le colorway
Vanilla Socks using Opal
Shafpate in the 8120 colorway
Crackerjack Cowl
by Stacy Simpson Duke – using Plymouth
Select Merino DK in orange, black, white and gray.
Multidirectional
Diagonal Scarf by Karen Baumer, Using Plymouth Gina
in colorway 15
Yowza
Weigh-it Shawl #1 by Susan B. Anderson, using Miss
Babs Yowza in the Believable colorway.
Tracie worked on:
Soubrette by Mary
Annarella/madelinetosh
lace (discontinued) in Georgia O’Keeffe. Coming along…
Wanda Estelle
by Debbi Stone/Kollage
Yarns Fantastic in Slate Green
Twigs
& Willows Mitts by Alana Dakos/Unwind
Yarn Company Twinkle Sock in Laboradite. One done!
And cast-on:
Vanilla Socks with the Fish Lips
Kiss Heel/Berocco
Sox in colorway 1494
Barb highly recommends
The
Orphan Masters’ Son by Adam
Johnston
and
A
Thousand Splendid Suns by
Khaled Houseini
And found okay reads in
Aftershock:
A Thriller by Andrew Vachss
His
Other Life by Beth Thomas
She is currently reading:
Sense
and Sensibility by Jane Austen
As
Far As You Can Go by Lesley
Gaister
The
Killer Next Door by Alex
Marwood
Tracie Did Not Finish
Jumping
In Mud Puddles: A Memoir of a Hyper, Picky Big Fat Liar by Vickie Mendenhall
She recommends
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
The audiobook has excellent narration by Noah Galvin
She did not care for
The
Carrier by Sophie Hannah (but if you’d
like to read one of Hannah’s good thrillers, check out Hurting
Distance, The
Other Half Lives, or Kind of Cruel
And she found solid reads in
Lady
Fortescue Steps Out by Marion
Chesney. First of the Poor Relations
series
Family
Blood: The True Story of the Yom Kippur Murders: One Family’s Greed, Love &
Rage by Marvin J. Wolf
She is currently listening to
King
Dork Approximately by Frank
Portman
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