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Fitzgerald—247: Pt 1-Diamond

BONUS EPISODE!
“A Diamond as Big as the Ritz” by F. Scott Fitzgerald—part 1.

Join the conversation by tweeting a response to this question by using a hashtag (#FaveFitzgerald):
Question: What is your favorite bit from the first half of “A Diamond as Big as the Ritz”?

I will randomly select a name from the responders and whoever I choose will get their very own WWMDfK? bracelet (iffin you want one)!

Have an idea for a knitting pattern based on a Hitchcock flick?
Send yourself over to Stephannie Tallent’s blog and get the skinny on how to submit your ideas!

And my new pattern (that I’m so proud of I’m even sharing it here!): Hunger Games-inspired Life and Death socks—designed for those of us who tend to give their socks a beating. (more details on knitting blog)

If you would like to purchase the pattern you can do it here through my regular shoppe account via the cart button below, or via my Ravelry shop where the pdf will be stored in your Library. This sock is for the adventurous intermediate or expert knitter (or for a new knitter who hasn’t been told that socks, cables, and double knitting are hard, the therefore is able to do anything) Skills​ knit and purl stitches, YO, right and left leaning increases, decreases, cables knitting in the round on two circular needles reading lace and charts; use of stitch markers to delineate repeats knitting both Continental and British (as commonly done in Fair Isle) is helpful if you wish to include the optional hidden pocket knowledge of double-knitting is useful but not required. Tutorial included. Size​ (S,M)L— for accurate fit, measure around ball of Foot (7in,8in)9in, Gauge​ ​ 28 sts=4 in/10cm; 38 rows=4” on sole-stitch stockinette; same on stockinette arrowhead lace Yarn ​ ​ SOLE: held double; sample knit with The March Hare in Scarlet Letter [70% Merino, 30% silk, 435 yards/ 398 m, 100g; 18 WPI]; INSTEP/LEG: Mountain Colors: CrazyFoot in Headwaters [90% superwash Merino, 10% nylon, 425 yards/ 389 m, 100g; 18 WPI] Needle ​ ​​ Two US 1 (2.25 mm) circs; cable needle or appropriate substitute tool; one set US 1 dpns for optional pocket Notions​​ ​ stitch markers or paperclips (many)   CraftLit! Just the Books! Featured in the Podcast Box! We just added a featured tab to the Podcast Box app. Every couple weekswe will be featuring different producers’ apps and this week your app has been chosen! Being featured makes it super easy for new listeners to discover your show so make sure you release some fresh content. Tell your audience to download the FREE Podcast Box app… your show will be front and center when they launch it!Just the Books for Droid, here. CraftLit for Droid here.

30. March 2012 by Admin
Categories: Short Stories | Tags: Fitzgerald, hashtag, Hitchcock, Hunger Games | Leave a comment

Stoker—246: Chapter 27

246—Chapter 27—THE END of Dracula! Whoot!

(Scroll to the bottom of the page for a player or grab the show on iTunes or via this feed).

Submit pattern ideas for upcoming Defarge books!

From Juti: Louis S. Warren, “Buffalo Bill Meets Dracula: William F. Cody, Bram Stoker, and the Frontiers of Racial Decay,” The American Historical Review vol. 107 no. 4 (October 2002), pp 1124-1157. Flicks the Church Forgot (Vampire flicks part 1, part 2, part 3)SFFaudio Wowio eBooks Psychopathy

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CraftLit! Just the Books! Featured in the Podcast Box! We just added a featured tab to the Podcast Box app. Every couple weekswe will be featuring different producers’ apps and this week your app has been chosen! Being featured makes it super easy for new listeners to discover your show so make sure you release some fresh content. Tell your audience to download the FREE Podcast Box app… your show will be front and center when they launch it!Just the Books for Droid, here. CraftLit for Droid here.

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09. March 2012 by Admin
Categories: Dracula | Tags: Dracula, end of book, shownotes, Stoker | Leave a comment

Stoker—245: Chapter 26

Chapter 26 of Dracula! Whoot!

(Scroll to the bottom of the page for a player or grab the show on iTunes or via this feed).

HENRY Irving--not John Irving (caught it too late!)

The book on decision making:

Mina’s typewriter (perhaps)

Once again we need our map:

this comes to us via Syrie James @Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins
Syrie James’ novel Dracula, My Love.

Misty won Caramel!
Heather(!) won one of Mighty Distractible’s embroidery kits!
From this month’s incentive drawing!

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CraftLit! Just the Books! Featured in the Podcast Box! We just added a featured tab to the Podcast Box app. Every couple weeks we will be featuring different producers’ apps and this week your app has been chosen!  Being featured makes it super easy for new listeners to discover your show so make sure you release some fresh content. Tell your audience to download the FREE Podcast Box app… your show will be front and center when they launch it!Just the Books for Droid, here. CraftLit for Droid here. (go get your free book and start your trial by clicking above) Again, many thanks to Jon Scholes at Vaguenet, and Ehren Ziegler at Chop Bard, and Elizabeth Klett for our audio this week!

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02. March 2012 by Admin
Categories: Dracula | Tags: Dracula, penultimate, tryperwriters | Leave a comment

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