Episode 298: Tracie Wears a Nerf Football

Recorded Saturday, February 22, 2025

 

Barb and Tracie are both appalled at what has been happening since the Trump inauguration.  What can we do?

• Call your representatives
• Sign up at Indivisible - STOP THE TRUMP-MUSK COUP
• February 28 - Economic Blackout - no purchases in person or online.  thepeoplesunionusa.com is planning a series of boycott days - I will post the link and all of the dates in the show notes

 

Please join our  Colorwork KAL!  Here are the details:

 

• Starts 2/1/25, ends on 5/1/25  
• Any project with colorwork - could be stranded, fair-isle, stripes, mosaic, intarsia, etc.  
• Your project can be a hat, mitts, mittens, gloves, anything around the neck, a toy - but it must be larger than a washcloth!  You might want to go big, like a sweater, vest or poncho
• WIPs less than 50% done are eligible for the KAL

 

Have fun with it.  Challenge yourself to try something new.  Chat it up in the Colorwork KAL thread here!

 

Our Zoom group is continuing.  Please join us on Saturdays, 12 noon Pacific time.  All the info you need is in our Ravelry group!

 

I am the guest on Episode 283 of the Life After MLM podcast talking about my experience as the mother of someone on the autistic spectrum 

 

EVENTS

• NoCKRs 2025 -  April 10-13, 2025 at the St Francis Retreat Center in San Juan Bautista, CA.   If you are interested in getting on the waitlist, please contact Tracie at [email protected]
• Fiber Frolic - Saturday, June 7, 2025 at Soul Food Farms in Vacaville, CA.  Bring a chair and lunch!  Presented by Treadles to Threads Spinning Guild
• 2 Knit Lit Chicks Get Together!  Are you interested in meeting other knitters and crocheters who listen to the podcast?  Please join us at the 2 Knit Lit Chicks Get Together next September 18-21
•  at the Zephyr Point Presbyterian Retreat Center on the shores of Lake Tahoe in Nevada.  For more information, take a look at the Get Together Thread thread on Ravelry.  Please get your registration in as soon as possible.  

 

KNITTING

Barb has finished:

4 Knitted Knockers

 

Tracie finished:

• Alignment by Katrine Birkenwasser in Seattle Sky Dyeworks Mismated in Rhododendron
• Purple rainbow socks for Rachel in Alexandra the Art of Yarn Dark Side of the Moon in Purple Haze
• Never Not Gnoming #29 for our Capitola realtor in bright blues
• Ever After Sweater by Claire Jackson in Malabrigo Rios in the Gemini colorway

 

Barb is still working on:

• Marklee #2 by Elizabeth Doherty, using Serendipidye 24 Carat MCNin the Peppermint Julep colorway
• Garter Stitch Scarf, using Sirdar Colourwheel
• Knitted Knockers

 

Barb has cast-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 ad 1 in the Natural colorway
• Bankhead hat #33 by Susie Gourley using some Lion Brand Mandala picked up on a destash table

 

Tracie has cast on:

• 2 Knitted Knockers
• Raise the Woof by Casapinka in Indigodragonfly ROU Sport in Spock Puppet and many others - doing both dog motifs!
• Socks in LMFA Show Stopper in Shantay You Stay held double on size 2 needles

 

BOOKS

Barb read:

You Like it Darker by Stephen King - 4.5 stars

The Worst of You by Sarah Richards - 3 stars

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout - 4 stars

Tracie read:

Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 4 stars

All the Rage (DI Adam Fawley #4) by Cara Hunter - 4 stars

The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 by Chris Nashawaty - 5 stars