Craftlit - Serialized Classic Literature For Busy Book Lovers

Chapters 47-49! Next week, I hope I can find my microphone... Well, it's August 3rd, and I'm on the road! Chicago, Sioux Falls, Deadwood and on to LOVELAND COLORADO--home of Interweave Press.Well, it's August 3rd, and I'm on the road! Chicago, Sioux Falls, Deadwood and on to LOVELAND COLORADO--home of Interweave Press... How do I love thee...let me count the ways. So the title of the podcast? Because my son is a questioner...well...so am I, so...apples/trees, you get the picture. I fully expect this road trip to be one of fun and learning. The country is so big and so wonderful...I feel an Emily-from-Our-Town-Moment coming on! If there is internet access and time, you'll hear some audio from the road. If not, you'll notice this post popping up, and a small-ish podcast appearing in your iTunes ontime. Why? Because I love you!

This week, chapters 44-46! Really! A little OTN moment: I'm working on a , which has only a little section of lace. I've knitted lace before, but this project...well, it was going to be hard enough; I didn't want to kill myself. This is the first project I've planned from washing, drying, and spinning the fiber, all the way to knitting. I'm going to do some funky dye thing to it when I'm done and I"m going to (God Willing and the Creeks Don't Rise) take this to for the gallery. But. The knitting is a total leap of faith. I've knitted 25 rows and it's barely 3-4 long. It's 390 stitches, decreasing regularly down to...well...7 that get grafted in a tricky way that I'm sure I'll marvel at when I get there.  I got the pattern from . She's a genius with this stuff. Anyway. Lace and all things lace-weight are a leap of faith. They look like a ball of twisted blah, then you wet and pin them and suddenly it's...LORDY! I made THAT?! Right now, my whole life is a leap of faith...so it seemed an appropriate thi

Chapters 42-45! WRONG WRONG WRONG! 43 was much longer than it said on the tag. This week we only have 42-44...but its an hour long episode regardles... Next week, chapters 44-??... Sorry about that! Well, I'm in the homestretch! This week and next week are the last two I'll be podcasting from Croton-on-Hudson...boy I'll need to change the intro, huh? I'll be podcasting from the road the week of August 1st, then from Tucson the next week. IF I can, I'll get my son in on the 'cast...but no guarantees. He's quite the ball-o-goof. So this week! A little discussion of Jane Austen's novels have been repackaged as chick-lit to reflect our modern conception of her as a romantic novelist. But her world is less comforting than we think, argues Laura Thompson... On 07/09/2006, Laura Thompson created a bit of a stir in the literary world when she said that Chicklit--the girlie romancified summer book lit that's gotten to be so popular among the young--had co-opted Jane Austen, and specifically, Pride and Prejud

This week, chapters 38-41! Next week--42-45! A brief episode because I'm behind at work, sorry about that. Today, listen for some more wonderful Collins idiocy. And as far as pride and prejudice go, Elizabeth's refusal of Darcy's proposal due to her new understanding of how she misjudged Darcy's motives knocks them both down a peg. They're on new footing now—a lot of their assumptions about each other have been challenged and now there's room for—well—something to happen. Watch for the groundwork of an eminent disaster—these are the chapters where doom comes a knockin'. As always, Pride and Prejudice is narrated by Annie Coleman. Intro music provided by GarageBand.com which connected me with Joshua Christian's "Chasing Hiro." "Back Issues" of Craftlit can be found at Craftlit.blogspot.com.

This week, chapters 35-37! Next week--38-41! Have you met the free online spinning magazine, ? Even after last week, do you fear socks? If so, check out the excellent resource page . And the results of the sockblocker experiment from ... SUCCESS!!! You can buy really nice fiber from and . How to make your own or with a . Special Thanks to Lauren and Amy for their helpful suggestions. I'm fiddling with the sound this week, so let me know. AND Re: iTunes--I have emailed them a number of times now, and we're trying to fix the feed problem. It appears they muffed it because they changed categories, so files that should have been there and complete, were semi-moved to the new category. I know one day the only files I could get through iTunes were the odd numbered episodes--go figure. Libsyn has fixed their end of the problem. Let's keep our fingers crossed...I know I am.

This week, Chapters 31-34 (next week 35-37) is fun for the whole family! Just look! You can get roving for felting from Toni Neil at ...they're the first house on the left. Really. You have to click it and see. It will make sense. Promise! My , just in case you wondered. And links to poetry/stories from my students too. And then The Soapbox. Sorry about that, but it's been bugging me so much. I hope that one of us will come up with some great idea for how to save the planet and all the people on it. I suppose it's genetic in me--my Dad is a Geographer working on , so I've known we were in trouble for a long time... Anyway. is a nice place to visit. Take a look! "We must be the change we wish to see in the world."--M.K.Gandhi “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing, would suffice to solve most of the world's problems... ‿--M.K.Gandhi And the essay on Gandhi and spinning can be found at . As always, Pride and Prejudice is narrated by . Intro music provided by Garag

Today, chapters 27-30 See the ! See what has done with her sockblocker key chain! See the fabu (and fake!) , then join me in on September 19th (or visit the and find a husband!). And the moment we've all been waiting for (at least the moment Kim was unsure if she was waiting for...): The Crazy Quilt Baby Blanket! As always, Pride and Prejudice is narrated by . Intro music provided by GarageBand.com which connected me with 's "Chasing Hiro."

This week, chapters 23-26! Horror... Am I an Artist or an ? As always, Pride and Prejudice is narrated by . Intro music provided by GarageBand.com which connected me with "Chasing Hiro."