Episode 75 is Live!

"We're all going to Stitches West together! Hooray!"

Thanks, SHIRLEE!!! Alias ShirleeClaire on Ravelry.

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What's On My Hook/Needles/Spindle: A brief break from the Mother Bear project knitting to finish up the Eliina Shawl--almost there!

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The FRIDAY CogKNITive lunch meet-up will be at NOON at the tables near the Concessions area behind the 900's section on the Market floor. Come hang out with us!

The CogKNITIve Meet-up at STITCHES WEST will be at 3 PM on Saturday at Booth 111--the Mother Bear Project booth.
Bring your bear to turn in OR
bring old yarn or needles or hooks to donate OR
bring $5. for the pattern OR
bring $10 to sponsor someone else's bear and have your name put on it.

If nothing else, bring nothing, pay nothing, get love from Dr Gemma for even showing up, and take a brochure to give to your local knitting group to inspire them to make bears.

Just COME! Bring YOURSELF and get a warm hug!

Dizzy Blonde: We're washing burgundy 2-ply--about 260 yards of sport weight, spinning some turquoise merino from Freckle Face Fibers on Etsy, and generally enjoying ourselves.

Strategy: When other people bug you, change YOUR OWN behaviors ot get some relief.

Something I Really Like: Starry nights and the Milky Way. The REAL Milky Way, but I rather love the candy bars too...

Blather: 77 bears for Mother Bear-- **You people are WONDERFUL!**

Our team at work splinters, due to a few Drama Queens (of either sex). I settle down to stay out of it!

CraftLit is doing more Jane Austen soon!

Ok, Austen junkies, listen up!
Craftlit is starting Jane Austen's masterpiece, Persuasion,

as soon as they finish the current book, Flatland.

Go have a listen at Craftlit, and tell them Gemma sent you!

Episode 74 is Live!

Another b y RJHuggz

Now you'd take this bear home and love him, wouldn't you? And, best of all, some sad little kid will do just that!

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What's On My Hook/Needles/Spindle: 3 bears done for Mother Bear project! A few words about the various ways to make a bear.

Post a picture of your bear right here as a comment or here at Ravelry.

The CogKNITIve Meet-up at STITCHES WEST will be at 3 PM on Saturday at Booth 111--the Mother Bear Project booth.
Bring your bear to turn in OR
bring old yarn or needles or hooks to donate OR
bring $5. for the pattern OR
bring $10 to sponsor someone else's bear and have your name put on it.

If nothing else, bring nothing, pay nothing, get love from Dr Gemma for even showing up, and take a brochure to give to your local knitting group to inspire them to make bears.

Just COME! Bring YOURSELF and get a warm hug!

Dizzy Blonde:

Some Stitches heads-ups:

Friday--lunch meet-up--more details to follow.

Saturday--Meet-up at Mother-Bear project Booth #111! 3 PM.

Strategy: A place for everything and everything in its place--and thanks to Julie of Forgotten Classics for this one!.

Something I Really Like: The Mac suite of in-home apps and hardware that make Itunes and its Homesharing possible.

Blather: 50 bears for Mother Bear and more since I recorded this! **You people are WONDERFUL!**

Mother Bear tells us that **you can use ANY worsted weight yarn**--washable or hadn-wash only!

Some info re: donating to Haiti through Webs, Knitters without Borders and others, and Ravelry's effort through the "Help for Haiti" tag.

In the prison: there's a new warden on the yard.

A Fine Day's Work

That's a bobbin of Dyeing for Color's pencil rovings in miscellaneous greens and greys and Freckle Face Fiber's superwash merino roving in an unnamed colorway that I think of as something like "cloudy sunset in eastern Pennsylvania" or "red roan mare".

Episode 73 is Live!

HEY! It's Hermione Grizzy! (My 2nd bear for Mother Bear.)

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What's On My Hook/Needles/Spindle: I'm now done my 2nd bear for The Mother Bear Project CAL/KAL--Hermione Grizzly in the picture above.

Post a picture of your bear right here as a comment or here at Ravelry.

The CogKNITIve Meet-up at STITCHES WEST will be at 3 PM on Saturday at Booth 111--the Mother Bear Project booth.
Bring your bear to turn in OR
bring old yarn or needles or hooks to donate OR
bring $5. for the pattern OR
bring $10 to sponsor someone else's bear and have your name put on it.

If nothing else, bring nothing, pay nothing, get love from Dr Gemma for even showing up, and take a brochure to give to your local knitting group to inspire them to make bears.

Just COME! Bring YOURSELF and get a warm hug!
Slow crawl on my adult bamboo-blend socks.

Dizzy Blonde: Plying (OR: How do you spell N-E-E-D-P-R-A-C-T-I-C-E).

Strategy: Never forget: what goes around, comes around,and Kharma is a very real force in this world, whatever your particular faith calls it.

Something I Really Like: More new podcasts: The Knitting Show, and Yarns From the Plain, and an old friend: Knitting Rose Did I mention that ChrissytheGreat is a person I really like? And let's not forget KnitGifts.com, who sent me a gift of lovely cards through Gigi.

Blather: New and better hours at work, no more teaching, a new dishwasher, Creative Pursuits, and coaxing Lexicom into doing her fantastic podcast. Ah, and I get 2 weeks off around Stitches West!

CogKNITive Fiber Retreat:
probably in Tehachapi again.
Still looking for a place that might be a little larger than last year's, planning to give preference to people who came last year, probably going to charge slightly more than last year (but still tying to keep things as inexpensive as possible), and lining up classes.

Early possibilities: Navajo spindling, Tunisian crochet, entrelac (Nathan? did I mention...?), 2-at-atime-toe-up socks==how to cast on, fiber preparation, fitting your knit/crochetware. And the same excellent line-up of vendors plus Carolina Homespun.

No fixed date yet, but probably the 2nd week of October.

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