Listening to Jeeves.
Rolling around laughing while listening.
And while we’re at it, Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall made me laugh in the most horrible way.

2009 Challenge! GET THEM IN PRONTO!

And a New Challenge! iPhone App Patterns! Listen for details.

October Incentive! A signed copy of Amy S. Foster’s new novel When Autumn Leaves! Did I mention it was signed? Because she loves CraftLit and therefore, loves you too.

Only a few seats left on the CraftLit/Knitty trip. Get ‘em while you can! Even if you’re not positive you can go, better safe than sorry!

And thank you Rita for introducing me to Chillingworth the Owl! Never have I seen a character captured so perfectly in…a…stuffed animal…

Don’t forget to checkout the Kickstarter site (look to the left sidebar to check on the progress).

Episode 147

Oy vey! Can’t wait to find a headache remedy! (One more week…)
Or learn more Yiddish.

That might take my mind off the pain.

Only two episodes left before the 2009 CraftLit™ Challenge! Get ‘em in.
And on that note–go reserve your space on the London, Bath, and Wales trip! Even if you’re not positive you can go…better safe than sorry. Checkout the “how to” info via the link above.

But here are some links for you: the cool journaling book by Gwen Diehn, Michelle Malone’s new album Debris is one to check out if you like jazzy, Southern Rock (you’ll be able to tell she came up in Atlanta at the same time as the Indigo Girls–you can listen to some songs from the site), our winners for the September Incentives are Penelope, Erica, and Donna! Yay! A nice site if you need to learn how to stretch your dollars (who doesn’t?), some AMAZING paper cutout art, and more than you ever wanted to know about the Sonoran Desert brought to you by Arizona 4-H.

Okay, I’m done with the 91,000 word novel.

WOOF!

Now I can get back to living…o wait…now I have to send it out…unsolicited.

MORE FUN!

101 Wire Earrings rocks! Denise Peck did a great job. Love it!

101 Wire Earrings

We have a BookGlutton group! Come! Join us!

Check out Dr. Gemma at CogKNITive!

And…here’s the divorce article. See what you think. Then post comments at Drop.io/craftlit (pwd: craftlit). Hmmmm…wonder what you’ll have to say…

Don’t forget about the Challenge!

Chapter 13–Book chat begins around 28 minutes

Today Thing 1 leaves for the Galapagos Islands with his grandparents and I receive that horrible weepy phone call every parent dreads.

Thing 2 and I get another crafty weekend and I share video of his first dance recital. Tonight, watching a splashy dance number he announces that all he wants to do is be on TV. Have we created a monster or was he doomed from the start?
Thing Two’s First Dance Recital

Kewl pics from Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (oooh, ahhhh…or eeek! ugh!); fave sock heel yarn found (colorway 35); getting closer to identifying 15 pretty blogs (who knew I’d have no time to look); I close in on a complete edit of my complete draft of my complete novel (who knew it would take this long…you sensing a theme?); I change my Sock Summit travel arrangements…SFO, I hardly knew ye.

Get your 2009 Challenge Ideas in! We’re half way through the book!

And, sadly, farewell to Michael and Farrah.

Chapter 12–Book talk begins at 17 min 30 sec-ish.

Now, now…didn’t mean to frighten you there…Leech was just a old fashioned way of saying “Doctor.”

Which makes me wonder why ANYONE would ever go to the Doctor?!

Huge thanks to Penelope for reading this week!!!! YAY CRAFTLIT LISTENERS!!!

Camille sent this picture she found. Feel the drama?

News from Interweave:

Quilting Arts Gives Away Free eBook of 7 Quilted Bag Patterns

eBook giveaway celebrates launch of the new Quilting Arts website and online community, www.quiltingarts.com

Loveland, Colo. – May 2009: Quilting Arts magazine announced this month that they are giving away a new free eBook, 7 Quilted Bag Patterns: Handmade Quilt Bags from Quilting Arts, to celebrate the launch of their new online community website, www.quiltingarts.com

The new Quilting Arts online community is a place for contemporary quilters to engage with each and the magazine’s editors online, upload photos of their work, share videos, comment on stories, view Quilting Arts Challenge galleries, download free projects and tutorials, and much more.

The 18-page eBook offers easy-to-print sewing patterns and templates for making seven different handmade bags for every personality and skill level, from beginning stitchers to advanced art quilters. The free eBook of quilted bag patterns includes materials lists and step-by-step directions for every bag, along with beautifully photographed full-color examples.

“There is such a wide variety of quilted bags in this free eBook, from quilted accessory purses that are perfect for holding your jewelry or makeup when you travel to evening clutches and eco-friendly shopping bags. You might want to make them all. And what I love about quilted bags is that they are the perfect small project for trying new skills, or to show off your love of quilting when you’re out and about,” says Quilting Arts Editor Pokey Bolton.

Beginners can try their hands at an easy-to-assemble Artful Eco Bag, then apply their quilting skills to a Pretty Purse. The Easy & Elegant Quilted Bag is perfect for people who love embellishment and stitch, but not necessarily the intricacies of sewing patterns. More experienced artists will love the Blue, Yellow, and Purple Evening Bags and the Mini Messenger Bag with a digitally altered and inkjet-printed design.

Download the free eBook of 7 Quilted Bag Patterns here:

http://quiltingarts.com/7-Free-Quilted-Bag-Patterns/

For all of you (ahem, all of us) who don’t speak Latin…you know…just in general…that would be a title for the Governor in our little book–in English: Who Watches the Watchmen?

This week, Chapters 7 and 8 of The Scarlet Letter!

Some quick links for your merriment (and a massive sound of time sucking down the drain): Checkout Scrivener if you have a Mac and write stories, lookee at News Knitter, Interesting idea…LifeHacks, another way to organize your days, quick and dirty (really) mosquito trap, how to read more books this year, how to learn faster, 14 ways to make your resolutions stick, The No-S Diet (not what you think), cool art from a Tucsonan, take a look at Ravelry before there was a Ravelry, a kewl knitted village, more expensive mosquito killer, and, finally, a fun blog add-on.