Recorded on July 13, 2019 Book Talk starts at 15:00 Our annual Mother Bear KAL has begun!  Any bears you have knit or crocheted on 2019 are eligible to post in our FOs thread. Each bear is an entry.  Come join the Chatter thread here!   We have new prizes donated by PattyB, CraftBuzz, Heidi Wulfraat, KDunne and super sock designer Becky Greene.  Please message alittleposy or knittybarb if you have a prize you’d like to contribute.   Want to start your Mother Bear-making journey?  Check out the Mother Bear Project website to buy a pattern, make a donation, or see the gallery of children and their new bears, and the MBP Ravelry group for great ideas and community with other bear makers.   KNITTING   Tracie has finished: Octopus #2 by Susan B. Anderson in Universal Yarns Uptown DK Mother Bears 193-201    Barb has finished: Mother Bears #170 - #174   Tracie continues to work on:  1.  ZickZack Scarf by Christy Kamm, using Louisa Harding Amitola in the Hook and the Dawn colorways 2.  Judah Cardigan by Juliana Lustanader in Valley Yarns Goshen in the Pacific colorway 3.  Fiddly Bits #9 by Jane Pihota 4.  Dare to Dream by Boo Knits in Duren Dyeworks Heavenly Fingering in Cherry Pop   Still working on 1.  ZickZack Scarf by Christy Kamm - free pattern on Ravelry - 5380 projects!  Using Lang Yarns MilleColori Baby in the 51 and52 color ways 2.  Yolks Pullover by Natalie V, using a Craftsy Kit with Cloudborn Fibers Pima Cotton DK in the Magenta Colorway 3.  Sunnydale Cowl by Katy H. Carroll (Katinka Designs), using Malabrigo Yarn Arroyo in the Anniversario colorway   Cast-on  July DVD Socks - Desert Vista Dyeworks Viso in the RadioActive Zombody color way Nightshift  by Andrea Mowry using a kit from Dragonfly Fibers   BOOKS Tracie has finished: Secrets of a Marine’s Wife: A True Story of Marriage, Obsession & Murder by Shanna Hogan - thumbs up American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin - thumbs up Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov thumbs up if you can stomach the subject matter God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut - enh   Barb says thumbs up to all her finished books: Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders that Became My Family’s Secret by Pamela Everett The Lost Man by Jane Harper Alien III by William Gibson - Audible Original Atomic Marriage by Curtis Sittenfeld Girls’ Night Out by Liz Fenton In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick   Tracie is reading: Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Deman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr. My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh   Barb is reading The Spaceship Next Door by Gene Doucette Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher   Barb gives The Man in the Window podcast a thumbs up