CogKNITive--A Knitting + Psychology Podcast: Episode 196: Almost…!

This episode will upload August 24, 2024

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Warm Thanks :

People signing up for CFRX! We are at 29, waiting for some payments.

Potchke is going to do her Tunisian workshop! Oink is willing to bring those hooks to sell!

Cogknitive Fiber Retreat 10 (2024): ALL INFO IS RIGHT HERE! It's the info thread on Ravelry.

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Cost: $30 per adult attendee—PayPal to gemmadw AT yahoo.com not refundable

Sign-up dates:
If you have EVER attended a CFR--automatic admission--July 1, 2024
If you are new--starts Aug 1, 2024

From the Hotel:

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Book your group rate for Cogknitive Fiber Retreat 2024

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Event Summary:

Cogknitive Fiber Retreat 2024

Start Date: Friday, September 27, 2024

End Date: Sunday, September 29, 2024

Last Day to Book: Thursday, August 29, 2024

Hotel(s) offering your special group rate:

Courtyard Santa Clarita Valencia for 179 USD per night

Book your group rate for Cogknitive Fiber Retreat 2024

Group projects:

Potchke’s Tunisian workshop—hooks available from Oink at the retreat!

We now know that our group knitting pattern and project is going probably to relate to making the lovely across-the -body-bags that Carmen makes. This gives everyone a chance to learn to make the ever-functional Granny Square to use up extra yarn in a fantastic and usable way. Stay tuned for details!

Free basic granny square pattern (thanks Purl Soho!)

Free crossbody bag pattern (thanks yarnspirations)

BRING AN I HOOK.

Woobling: size 4.0 mm/g hook and worsted weight (4) yarn. Basic penguin or the basic chick pattern (free)

ABBA’s Sock yarn cowl: free Ravelry download: bring a D hook!

What's On My Hooks and Needles:

Finished:

Bored Silly Socks:

In Progress:

Stash toss 2024 (25 in versus 48 out)

Lakeside cardigan : Remaining: 1 set of front panels, each is 2x2, weaving those ends, attaching, then major remaining seams.

Vestuary24: finished the back! Working up the front.

Dizzy Blondes:

Still working on more merino from morrobayfleeceworks.com

3rd bobbin (sigh), but no progress

Strategy: taking microbreaks.

AW shoot!:

Runner Woman: recovered from Covid shot

Week 7 and added another calendar. Sore and tired at last. Added 2 races

Fluffy Books:

A new dragon book! A new Flavia Albia on the 23rd!

A new Verity Lark comes out in October

India Holton's latest: An Ornithologist's...

Sebastian and Hero St. Cyr mystery novels

Something I Really Like:

Put a Lid on It: (another heat wave just now)

Just laying low and eating cold— the stand-by foods: tomato sauce and 5 ingredients in the instant pot.

Tomato sauce:

1 brick (8 ounces) cream cheese

As much canned tomato sauce as you like

Ground beef or pork or lamb

2 hours in the slow cooker on high

Pour over anything.

5 ingredients in the IP:

Butter or olive oil

1 chopped onion

1 cup BBQ sauce

1 cup brown soda

1 pork or beef roast

Sauté the onion for 2 mins, then add meat and brown 2 mins per side. Turn pot off. Add the other ingredients. Then set on manual for 100 minutes. Allow to vent naturally. Shred whatever meat you’ve got and call it. “pulled Whatever“. Goes great in tacos or tostadas or burritos or salads or just as a main course.

Blather:

I raced!…almost.