Recorded on February 2, 2018

Book Talk starts at 32:18

Our Fall Sweater KAL is over!  Winners will be announced at the end of the podcast.

The 2 Knit Lit Chicks Hoodie giveaway is over also - the winner will be announced at the end of the podcast.

Get ready for our next KAL – the Never-Have-I-Ever Sock-along which will run February 14 through May 15.  Make socks like you’ve never made before - try a new heel, using a pattern if you usually stick with vanilla, knit from a sock blank for the first time, do color work - or maybe try socks for the very first time!  Please go to the Never-Have-I-Ever Sock-along Chatter thread to join the fun.  

 

Tracie and Barb will be at:

Stitches West - February 22-25, 2018

NoCKRs 2018 - April 12-15

Knitting

Barb has finished:

Barb's Free Your Fade by Andrea Mowry, using Zen Yarn Garden Superfine Fingering in the Magical Dyepot D3, D5 and D6 color ways.  And many thanks to Zen Yarn Garden for gifting the yarn to Barb for review!

 

Barb's Brooklin Vest by Elizabeth Smith, using Berroco Vintage Chunky in the Smoke colorway

 

Mother Bear #127

 

 

Tracie has finished:

Redford pullover by Julie Hoover, using Lisa Souza Hardtwist Merino in the Monteverde colorway

 

Barb is currently working on:

 

 

 

Tale as Old as Time Cowl by Anne Vally, using Must Stash Yarns & Fiber Perfect Self-Striping Sock in the Beauty and the Beast colorways

 

Pioneer Braid Scarf by Catherine Ryan, using Caron Cake in the Blueberry Kiwi colorway

 

High Woods Hat by Irini Pi, using leftover Barroco Vintage in the Dungaree and Forest Floor colorways

 

Royal Mile Cowl by Dami Hunter, using Delicious Yarns Frosting Chunky in the Currant colorway.  Thank you to Delicous Yarns and Stitchcraft Marketing for giving Barb the yarn to review!

 

Vanilla Socks using Knit Picks Felici in the Hopscotch color way

 

Misty Scarf by Kaffe Fassett, using Rowan Kidsilk Haze Stripe (2 different skeins)

 

 

Tracie is working on:

5th Fiddly Bits cowl by Jane Pihota from fingering weight magic cake

 

Levitate  Poncho by Yvonne Poon, using Manos del Uruguay Silk Blend in the Kohl and Zebra color ways

Vanilla Socks in Fishknits Boot Strap Self-striping in the NorCal Vernal Pools colorway

New Wave cardigan by Mary Annarella, using Invictus Yarns Reward in the Olive colorway

 

 

 

Books

 

Barb has finished:

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

 

X by Sue Grafton

Two Old Women by Velma Wallis

 

 

 

 

Tracie has finished reading:

The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

A Beautiful Child by Matt Birkbeck

Horrorstor  by Grady Hendrix

I Know What I'm Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction by Jen Kirkman

The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us by Tanya Lee Stone

 

 

Barb is currently reading:

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout

 

 

Tracie is currently reading:

 

Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito

 

 

 

Tracie has set aside The House of Unexpected Sisters (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #18) by Alexander McCall Smith