Episode Whoo Hoo! Episode 300!!

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Recorded Thursday, April 24, 2025

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:

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

Fiber Frolic - Saturday, June 7, 2025 at Soul Food Farms in Vacaville, CA.  Treadles to Threads Spinning Guild.   From the flier: By popular demand, we have new food vendors this year! 

•  Boots Bakes Sweets will dazzle us with cookies and other yummy desert items. Check out her Instagram @bootsbakessweets
•  Edward from Italian Brothers Pizza will be baking us fresh wood fired pizza on site! His creations can be seen @italianbrotherspizza
•  And our new coffee vendor, High Flier Coffee will be providing fresh roasted craft coffee all day. View their Instagram at @highfliercoffee

KNITTING

Barb has finished:

• 6 Knitted Knockers
• Garter Stitch Scarf, using Sirdar Colourwheel

Tracie finished:

• 2 Knitted Knockers
• Raglan Turtleneck for Lexi’s Scraps Chaps rabbit - didn’t use a pattern.  In Sea Change Fibers Ecola Worsted in Flower Fairy
• Loose Ends Project Textured Sweater in off-white wool
• Mother Bear 333
• 2nd Rialto Baby Beanie by Haley Waxberg in Sirdar Snuggly Crofter Baby Fair Isle Effect DK in 174 Skye

Barb is still working on:

• 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 1 in the Natural colorway
• Bankhead Hat #34

Tracie cast on:

• 4th Rachel by Josée Paquin in Carpool Artisan Fibers 100% Cotton
• Vanilla Socks in Knitting Fever Cashmere Indulgence

She continues to work on:

• Colorwork Dip by SuviKnits in The Farmer’s Daughter Fibers Juicy in Sunday Mimosa and The Sapphire Empress

BOOKS

Barb read:

• One by One - Freida McFadden - 4 stars
• The Coworker - Freida McFadden - 3.5 stars
• While Innocents Slept: A True Story of Revenge, Murder and SIDS by Adrian Havill - 3 stars
• Long Bright River by Liz Moore - 4 stars

Tracie read:

• Secrets in the Cellar: A True Story of the Austrian Incest Case that Shocked the World by John Glatt - 4.5 stars
• Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 3 1/2 stars
• Broken Bayou by Jennifer Moorhead - 2 1/2 stars
• Dead Sweet by Katrín Júlíusdóttir - 2 1/2 stars

Tracie gives a giant thumbs down to RFK jr’s incredibly unkind and untrue  remarks about the lived experiences of those on the autism spectrum.