Episode 207: Tracie Explains Covid "Points"?

Recorded on July 20, 2020 Book Talk starts at 23.12 Our Mother Bear KAL runs until September 1, 2020.  Please join the discussion in the 2020 Mother Bear KAL Chatter Thread and post your finished bears in the Mother Bear FOs Thread   Tracie and Barb support the Black Lives Matter movement and encourage you to add your voice to the fight for racial justice and police reform and demilitarization.  Please donate if you can: Black Lives Matter Southern Poverty Law Center NAACP Legal Defense Fund ACLU    Giveaway - 3 copies of the Ciara Shawl by Fredi Baker - drawing at the end of the podcast   KNITTING Barb finished Mother Bears 214-217 Stoa Scarf by Anne Ginger, using Blue Heron Cotton Rayon Flax Metallic in the Denim color way.  Papillion (butterfly) by Marin Melchior, using Knit Picks Chroma in the Gray and the Pegasus colorways One-row Handspun Scarf by Stephanie Pearl McFee using a Premier Sweet Roll   Tracie finished Mother Bears 221-228 Green Vanilla Socks in Fish Knits Boot Strap Sock Gradient in Greens   Barb is working on Etude cardigan by Ririko, using Aussie SoxxiCast-on  Vanilla Socks using and set of Fibernymph Dye Works Inversibles in lilac and pink    And has cast on Mother Bear #218 Bull & Braids hat by Cheryl Breckerich, using Cascade Elysian in the Crimson colorway Stillness MKAL by Helen Stewart, using Western Sky Knits Magnolia Sock in the Wisp colorway, Tess Designer Yarns Super Socks and Baby in the Green colorway, Knit Picks Hawthorne Fingering Kettle Dye in the Purple colorway.     Tracie has frogged for now: Hatteras Cardigan by Kate Saloman (Green Mountain Spinnery) in Western Sky Knits Merino 17 in bright sky blue   She cast on Ciara Shawl by Fredi Baker in Emma’s Yarn Super Silky (kit from Rumpelstiltskin) in Freshly Cut, Happily Ever After and Whisper Niamh by Isabell Kraemer in Miss Babs Katahdin in Smurf & Turf    And continues working On: That's My Jam shawl/wrap by Steven Fegert, using Leading Men Fiber Arts Monologue in the London Fog colorway, and LunaPurl Una Merino Mini Skeins in the Drops of Jupiter colorway   BOOKS  Barb read  Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump Man of the Year by Caroline Louise Walker The Argument by Victoria Jenkins    Tracie read The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) Big Cats: Stories by Holiday Reinhorn Prime Suspect by Lynda LaPlante The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray The Whole Town’s Talking by Fannie Flagg The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood   Barb recommends Knit Companion class on Vogue Knitting Live online.  Another session in August!