Recorded on February 2, 2018 Book Talk starts at 32:18 Our Fall Sweater KAL is over!  Winners will be announced at the end of the podcast. The 2 Knit Lit Chicks Hoodie giveaway is over also - the winner will be announced at the end of the podcast. Get ready for our next KAL – the Never-Have-I-Ever Sock-along which will run February 14 through May 15.  Make socks like you’ve never made before - try a new heel, using a pattern if you usually stick with vanilla, knit from a sock blank for the first time, do color work - or maybe try socks for the very first time!  Please go to the Never-Have-I-Ever Sock-along Chatter thread to join the fun.     Tracie and Barb will be at: Stitches West - February 22-25, 2018 NoCKRs 2018 - April 12-15 Knitting Barb has finished: Barb's Free Your Fade by Andrea Mowry, using Zen Yarn Garden Superfine Fingering in the Magical Dyepot D3, D5 and D6 color ways.  And many thanks to Zen Yarn Garden for gifting the yarn to Barb for review!   Barb's Brooklin Vest by Elizabeth Smith, using Berroco Vintage Chunky in the Smoke colorway   Mother Bear #127     Tracie has finished: Redford pullover by Julie Hoover, using Lisa Souza Hardtwist Merino in the Monteverde colorway   Barb is currently working on:       Tale as Old as Time Cowl by Anne Vally, using Must Stash Yarns & Fiber Perfect Self-Striping Sock in the Beauty and the Beast colorways   Pioneer Braid Scarf by Catherine Ryan, using Caron Cake in the Blueberry Kiwi colorway   High Woods Hat by Irini Pi, using leftover Barroco Vintage in the Dungaree and Forest Floor colorways   Royal Mile Cowl by Dami Hunter, using Delicious Yarns Frosting Chunky in the Currant colorway.  Thank you to Delicous Yarns and Stitchcraft Marketing for giving Barb the yarn to review!   Vanilla Socks using Knit Picks Felici in the Hopscotch color way   Misty Scarf by Kaffe Fassett, using Rowan Kidsilk Haze Stripe (2 different skeins)     Tracie is working on: 5th Fiddly Bits cowl by Jane Pihota from fingering weight magic cake   Levitate  Poncho by Yvonne Poon, using Manos del Uruguay Silk Blend in the Kohl and Zebra color ways Vanilla Socks in Fishknits Boot Strap Self-striping in the NorCal Vernal Pools colorway New Wave cardigan by Mary Annarella, using Invictus Yarns Reward in the Olive colorway       Books   Barb has finished: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng   X by Sue Grafton Two Old Women by Velma Wallis         Tracie has finished reading: The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce A Beautiful Child by Matt Birkbeck Horrorstor  by Grady Hendrix I Know What I'm Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction by Jen Kirkman The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us by Tanya Lee Stone     Barb is currently reading: The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout     Tracie is currently reading:   Quicksand by Malin Persson Giolito       Tracie has set aside The House of Unexpected Sisters (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #18) by Alexander McCall Smith