Show Notes: Episode 14

Psst!  If you've been enjoying the podcast, would you take a minute to leave an itunes review? (Even if you usually watch on You Tube, I'd really appreciate it)

Here's how to do it:














Here's what is included in today's podcast:

Three minutes about last week's healthcare dog & pony show

A couple half-finished objects:

Shorty Socks
World War G{loves}

My finished (and embroidered!) object:

Ten-Stitch ZigZag Blanket


Near-Future Project:

Pivot Tank


I am wearing my:

Beekeeper's Tank

You get a tour of my new batch of knitting & crochet project bags!  (They're available in my Etsy Shop here!)

Book Recommendations:

The Kitchen House,
then, if you love that book like I did, you can read the sequel: Glory Over Everything

Quick TV Series Review of:
Anne of Green Gables

Here's a link to the 1985 Anne of Green Gables if you somehow missed watching it 30 years ago!

Product Reviews:
Amazon Dash Buttons
So Delicious Coco Whip (the link will allow you to put in your zip code and select a product that you are looking for...fair warning, I think that sometimes this search function only pulls up stores that carry any part of the So Delicious product line, not necessarily the project you want to buy.  In my area, I have to go to HyVee to buy the Coco Whip although other stores like Kroger carry other products from this brand.

And a recipe that is great for lactose-intolerant folks (although it would be yummy made with dairy-containing products, too!

Here's a link to the original recipe page, but please note that I have edited the recipe below to reflect the way I actually prepare my version of this.

Easy Key Lime Pie

PRINT

Ingredients

• ¼ cup water (boiling)
• 3 oz package lime flavored gelatin
• 2 tsp key lime juice or regular lime juice
• 12 oz of key lime flavored yogurt (I like Noosa and Chobani brands)
• 9 oz containers of thawed So Delicious Coco Whip, and extra if you want some to top your pie with.
• 1 prepared graham cracker crust

Instructions

Report this ad

1. Whisk lime gelatin into boiling water and stir until dissolved.
2. Add the key lime juice, and put in the freezer for 10 minutes to cool.
3. Once the gelatin mixture has cooled, add the key lime pie yogurt.
4. Add a 8oz container of COOL WHIP and green food coloring, if desired.
5. Spoon mixture into graham cracker crust and smooth out.
6. Place in the refrigerator to set for at least 2 hours.
7. Add a scoop of Coco Whip from the second container.

Show Notes: Episode 13

Finished Objects:

Stormy Sky Shawl

Ten-Stitch Zig Zag Blanket (mine was a 20-stitch zig zag)

Work in Progress:

Folded Sweater


I also talk about Siesta Key, FL and a nearby yarn shop, A Good Yarn, as well as a little bit about Illinois politics (sorry, ya'll....it depresses me, too!), The Handmaid's Tale, and I give another shout out to the Fiber Fist Bumps winners that were drawn at the end of episode 12 in the hopes that they contact me!

I also tell a couple tales of early knitting projects that were doomed from the start.   We all have those skeletons in the closet, don't we?

Show notes: Episode 12

Congratulations to the Giveaway winners!

Today's podcast includes a finished shawl called Borderline, and the following works in progress:

Ten Stitch Zigzag Blanket

Stormy Sky Shawl


I also talk about sewing sundresses without a pattern, a tricked-out mattress I would like someone to invent, and a gift suggestion for your significant other!

Show Notes: Episode 11

Works in progress:

My Ten Stitch Zig Zag Blanket that will become part of the Welcome Blanket Project.

My doomed Threadle Sweater

The Circular Yoke Summer Shirt


On Hold:

Brioche Cowl

GIVEAWAY: Enter to win a Fiber Fist Bump for yourself, and one for a friend!  You can find the giveaway threads on Instagram (I'm "coliemonte") and in my Ravelry Group.  (You can enter both places if you like, and feel free to tag your friends, so they can enter with you and increase your chances!

Podcast recommendation: Freakanomics, especially the May 10th episode, "How Big Is My Penis (and other things we ask Google)".

A new favorite veggie dinner: Ziyad brand frozen falafel.  Give it a try!

Show Notes: Episode 10

Today's projects:

I finished my Therapy Shawl and I made a pair of Simple Garter Stitch Slippers.

Works in progress are a Brioche Cowl and the very beginning of my Circular Yoke Summer Shirt.

Book recommendation: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

U2 just announced more concert dates!  If they're going to be anywhere near you, you won't regret the money and time you spend on this concert!

Show Notes: Episode Nine

Therapy Shawl by Laura Aylor

Blueberry Waffle Socks by Sandy Turner

Petty Harbor Socks by Rayna Curtis

The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu

Thinx - You can use this link to get $10 off if this is your first order.  If you happen to see this before noon EST on May 29th, you can just go to www.shethinx.com and order without a coupon code or special link and they will give you 30% off any size order - one pair or one hundred pairs!  ...but don't buy one hundred pairs.  There's so much yarn you could get with that money!)

Fiber Flair:
If you want to help your yarn shop owner get in touch with me, you can give them the address to this blog, or you can share my email address with them (coliemonte AT gmail DOT com) and they can request info that way.

Show Notes: Episode Eight

Yep, I went there.

A couple links on the ACHA:

Here's what the Congressional Budget Office has to say (warning, the pdf is super dry facts & figures, but this is a non-partisian source.)

Here is a slightly left-leaning source that compares the American Care Act (Obamacare) with the American Health Care Act (Trumpcare).

More charts explaining the ACHA courtesy of NPR.

And here's an article about the ACHA from a slightly right-leaning source.

Between the time I recorded the podcast and the time I published it, the Senate announced the names of the 13 men who will be crafting the Senate health care bill (because, thankfully, the House bill is supposedly dead on arrival as far as the Senate is concerned.   All 13 members are Republicans, even though 48% of the current senate caucuses with the Democrats.  There are no female senators included in this committee, even though there are 5 women who currently serve as Republican senators.  (There are 16 women who serve as Democratic senators, but that is a rant for another day.) What could possibly go wrong with allowing health care policy for the whole country to be written by a group of all white dudes who skew much wealthier and older than the general population?  (Let me just drive home how very similar these guys are by pointing out that 25% of them are named "John".)  Surely my concerns are unfounded and they will have plenty of insight into women's health and be able to fully understand the challenges people without means face in affording decent health care.

On to today's projects! (So, so many projects!)

Possum Fingerless Gloves

Sweet Pea Baby Sack

Boho Blush Shawl

Jason's "Brownie" Sweater

Jason's Mr. Darcy College-Replica Sweater

Petty Harbor

September Morn (kinda, not really)

.......and I announced the winner of the "bite size yarn" and an extra surprise prize!  Make sure to contact me either via email (click on the "contact me" tab above), or with a personal message on Ravelry to give me your shipping address if you're the winner!

Also, please contact me if you are a yarn shop owner or the loyal customer of a yarn shop and want information on how your yarn shop can be a retailer of the new Trappings and Trinkets product!