Recorded on June 13, 2019

Book Talk starts at 21:19

Our annual Mother Bear KAL has begun!  Any bears you have knit or crocheted on 2019 are eligible to post in our FOs thread. Each bear is an entry.  Come join the Chatter thread here!

 

We have new prizes donated by Erin Gordon, Catmujer (Trish), TMY in HNL (Betty), Leaner (Eileen), Celia Cahill, and Sue of Invictus Yarns.  Please message alittleposy or knittybarb if you have a prize you’d like to contribute.

 

Want to start your Mother Bear-making journey?  Check out the Mother Bear Project website to buy a pattern, make a donation, or see the gallery of children and their new bears, and the MBP Ravelry group for great ideas and community with other bear makers.

 

KNITTING

 

Barb’s FOs

Mother Bears #162, #163, #164, #165

Zephyr by Celia McAdam Cahill, using Malabrigo Yarn Rios in the Teal Feather color way

 

Tracie’s FOs

Mother Bears 173-184

Never Not Gnoming #17 by Sarah Schira - Large in sport weight purple and grey

Octopus by Susan B. Anderson in Universal Yarns Uptown Worsted

 

Barb is still working on

Christmas Vanilla Socks, using The Yarn Jar Shop sock yarn in The Grinch colorway

ZickZack Scarf by Christy Kamm - free pattern on Ravelry - 5380 projects!  Using Lang Yarns MilleColori Baby in the 51 and52 color ways

Yolks Pullover by Natalie V, using a Craftsy Kit with Cloudborn Fibers Pima Cotton DK in the Magenta Colorway

Sunnydale Cowl by Katy H. Carroll (Katinka Designs), using Malabrigo Yarn Arroyo in the Anniversario colorway

 

She cast on

DVD June socks -  Desert Vista Dyeworks Viso in Zombody is Like a Writing Desk

 

Tracie continues working on

 ZickZack Scarf by Christy Kamm, using Louisa Harding Amitola in the Hook and the Dawn colorways

Judah Cardigan by Juliana Lustanader in Valley Yarns Goshen in the Pacific colorway

Fiddly Bits #9 by Jane Pihota in sport weight yarns

Dare to Dream by Boo Knits in Duren Dyeworks Heavenly Fingering in Cherry Pop

Vanilla Socks, using Lollipop Yarn Quintessential in the Wide Awake colorway

 

 

BOOKS

 

Barb read

The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder and an Unlikely Investigator by Joakim Palmkvist thumbs up

The Silence of the North by Olive R. Fredrickson - thumbs up

 

Tracie read: 

In the Dark (DI Adam Fawley, #2) by Cara Hunter - thumbs up

Bad Monkey (Andrew Yancy, #1) by Carl Hiaasen - thumbs up

The Past is Never by Tiffany Quay Tyson - enh

 

Barb and Tracie both enthusiastically recommend Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-to Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark 

 

Barb is reading

Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders that Became My Family’s Secret by Pamela Everett

Confidential by Ellie Monago

 

 

Tracie is reading

And The Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi

Sex, Love and Money: Revenge and Ruin in the World of High-Stakes Divorce by Gerald Nissenbaum