Episode 299: We're Kinda Loosey Goosey

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Recorded Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Book talk begins at 28:40

Come join our Colorwork KAL!  It goes until 5/15/25. 

Colorwork KAL info - you'll find it HERE

Come join our Virtual Knitting Group - all the info is HERE

EVENTS

Tracie and Barb will be at:

NoCKRs - April 10-13, 2025 in San Juan Bautista, CA.

Fiber Frolic - Saturday, June 7, 2025 at Soul Food Farms in Vacaville, CA.  Bring a chair and lunch!  Presented by Treadles to Threads Spinning Guild

2 Knit Lit Chicks Get Together - September 18-21, 2025 at Zephyr Point Presbyterian Centre on Zephyr Cove, Nevada

KNITTING

Barb has finished:

• 2 Knit Knockers
• Bankhead hat #33 using Lion Brand Mandala Ombre

Bankhead Hat #33

Tracie finished:

• 4 Knitted Knockers
• Raise the Woof by Casapinka in Indigodragonfly ROU Sport in Spock Puppet and 5 others
• Cat Hoodie from Clothing Bundle II by Barbara Prime in Emma’s Yarn Super Silky in Oops I Did It Again
• Izzy Knitted Comfort Doll by Shirley O'Conner
• Emotional Support Little Chickie  by Annette Corsino in Plymouth Encore

Tracie's Raise the Woof pullover!

Barb is still working on:

• Garter Stitch Scarf using a Sirdar Colourwheel
• Navelli pullover by Caitlin Hunter, using Cloudborn Fibers Highland Fingering in the Caribbean colorway, and 2 skeins of Greenwood Fiberworks Indulgence, one in the Black colorway and one in the Natural colorway

Tracie has cast on:

•  Colorwork Dip  by SuviKnits in The Farmer’s Daughter Fibers Juicy in Sunday Mimosa and The Sapphire Empress
• Loose Ends project Textured Sweater in off-white wool

Tracie has frogged :

Socks in LMFA SHOW Stopper in the Shantay You Stay colorway held double on size 2

BOOKS

Tracie has read:

• The Vanishing at Smokestack Hollow: A Missing Family, a Desperate Plan, and an Unsolved Mystery  by Jake Anderson - 4 stars
• Family Family by Lauren Frankel - 3 1/2 stars
• Deep South by Nevada Barr - 4 stars
• Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
• True Biz by Sara Nović - 4 1/2 stars

Barb has read:

• Bird Box (Bird Box #1) by Josh Malerman - 4 stars
• The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue - 3.5 stars
• The Last Juror by John Grisham - 5 stars  

Barb talked about the Big Bear Live Eagle Nest Cam