Recorded on May 8, 2023

Book Talk starts at: 25:30

Our Cables KAL is almost over... May 15th is the last day you can post pictures of your finished cable-y goodness projects.   Prizes will be announced during Episode 268.  

Our next KAL will be our annual Mother Bear KAL!  It will officially start on June 1, 2023, but any bears you have knit or crocheted in 2023 are eligible as entries for prizes.  To find out all about this wonderful charity, please go to Mother Bear Project website.  More info to come...

 

 

Virtual Knitting Group via Zoom

EVENTS

Tracie and Barb will be at:

• Fiber Frolic - Saturday, May 27, 2023, 10 am – 4 pm at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville, CA.  There will be no food vendors, so bring your own lunch and a chair.  The entry fee is $10 per person, and parking will be in a field and not limited.
• The TKGA Retreat 2023 - November 2-5, 2023 at the Hilton Charlotte University Place Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina

  KNITTING   Barb finished 4 Knitted Knockers (12 total for 2023)     Tracie has finished:

• 13 Knitted Knockers total for 2023
• Mother Bears 302 & 303   
• Fiddly Bits #9 #9 by Jana Pihota
• Tracie's Donner by Elizabeth Doherty

  Tracie's Donner Barb Is working on:

• Rock It Tee by Tanis Lavalee, using Anzula Breeze in the Fern and Gravity colorways
• WYS Vanilla Socks, using West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4-ply Self-Striping in the Peacock colorway
• Razzle Dazzle Scarf in Leading Men Fiber Arts Show Stopper Gradient Set in the Razzle Dazzle #22 colorway

Barb has cast-on:

• Twisty Taper Hat by NichKnit Designs using Plymouth Yarn Encore

  Tracie is working on:

• Summer Sorrel by Wood & Pine in Despondent Dyes OMG Glitter! in the Even My Attorney Says “Let It Go” colorway

Tracie has frogged:

• China Top by Ksenia Naidyon in Alchemy Silken Straw

    BOOKS   Barb has finished:

• Vacationland by Meg Mitchell Moore - 4 stars
• Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors and Other True Cases (Crime Files #16) by Ann Rule - 4 stars
• Small Game by Blair Braverman - 3.5 stars

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Tracie has finished:

• Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez - 5 stars
• Blood Betrayal by Sheila Johnson - 2.5 stars
• Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume - 5 stars
• Such a Pretty Girl by T. Greenwood - 4 stars

  Tracie talked about Universal Standard Clothing Co.