I have a BA in French from about a million years ago and listen to these ‘casts to keep my ear tuned and to improve my knowledge of slang, vocabulary, etc, etc.
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- Neologisms I stole
- 2012 Books Read
- 1. Land of the Burning Sands
- 2. Law of the Broken Earth
- 3. Night of the Living Trekkies
- 4. Moonlight and Vines
- 5. Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
- 6. The Walls of Jericho
- 7. Forests of the Heart
- 8. Learning to Swim
- 9. Bossypants
- 10. Eve of All Hallows
- 11. Tapping the Dream Tree
- 12. Master of My Surrender
- 13. Federations
- 14. This Brilliant Darkness
- 15. The Hunger Games
- 16. Catching Fire
- 17. Mockingjay
- 18. Spirits in the Wires
- 19. Dark Future
- 20. Shotgun Gravy
- 21. Medicine Road
- 22. The Blue Girl
- 23. The Alchemist of Souls
- 24. The Demon’s Bargain
- 25. The Iron Duke
- 26. Sleep with Me
- 27. Soulless
- 28. Flash and Bones
- 29. Shades of Grey
- 30. Kiss Me, I’m Irish
- 31. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- 32. Rush Home Road
- 33. Pale Demon
- 34. Blackbirds
- 35. Setting Fires
- 36. A Thousand Splendid Suns
- 37. Incorporeal
- 38. Past Twilight
- 2012 Finished Objects
- 1. Mmmalabrigo seaweed cowl
- 2. Computer drawing-pad cover
- 3. BC15′s grey med-faire pants
- 4. Red-trimmed chemise
- 5. Red feather-n-fan cowl
- 6. White-trimmed chemise
- 7. Jacob’s hat
- 8. Cupcake’s gold chemise
- 9. Cupcake’s taffeta overskirt
- 10. BC15′s black and blue doublet
- 11. Blue velour pouch
- 12. Tira’s k1p1 fingerless mitts
- 13. Jacob’s neckwarmer
- 14. Megan’s Osmena hat
- 15. Green-blue Fetching Mitts
- 16. Spring autumn leaves cardi
- 17. Spring baby janes
- 18. Spring peapod hat
- Yarn usage 2012
- *Helpful resources
- 2011 Finished objects
- 1. K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 2. K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 3. K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 4. Hub’s med-faire pants
- 5. Cupcake’s purple underdress
- 6. Killian’s long K2P2 mitts
- 7. Blue k2p2 fingerless mitts
- 8. Blue k2p2 fingerless mitts again
- 9. Adult beret in pink
- 10. Pink k2p2 fingerless mitts
- 11. Arianna’s first halter
- 12. Toddler twisted pumpkin hat
- 13. Helena sweater
- 14. K1P1 fingerless mitts for Thomas
- 15. Blue K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 16. Black-n-royal K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 17. FO 16 redux-ish
- 18. Arianna’s Katja sundress
- 19. Green K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 20. Green cowl with 3 buttons
- 21. Green HP7 preemie cap
- 22. Pink Arcadia knitting baby sweater
- 23. Green/pink K1P1 preemie cap
- 24. O&B hat-n-booties set
- 25. White, green and purple cap
- 26. Shay’s Aeolian shawl
- 27. Lilac & white baby cap
- 28. Purple & grey baby cap
- 29. FIL double-layer hat
- 30. Orange-n-blue chilly podsters
- Charity “squares”: 52
- Yarn usage 2011
- 2011: words of wisdom
- About the author
- Books Read 2008
- Books Read 2009
- Books Read 2010
- Books Read 2011
- 1. Heart-Shaped Box
- 2. Horns
- 3. Mistress of the Art of Death
- 4. The Serpent’s Tale
- 5. Grave Goods
- 6. Under the Dome
- 7. The Mermaid Chair
- 8. 20th Century Ghosts
- 9. Very Valentine
- 10. Black Magic Sanction
- 11. Karma Girl
- 12. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- 13. The Autograph Man
- 14. A Killer Stitch
- 15. Dyer Consequences
- 16. Fleece Navidad
- 17. Dropped Dead Stitch
- 18. Skein of the Crime
- 19. Indulgence in Death
- 20. Wicked Appetite
- 21. Spinning Forward
- 22. Casting About
- 23. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
- 24. A Murderous Procession
- 25. How to Knit a Heart Back Home
- 26. Relentless
- 27. Restoring Harmony
- 28. The Magicians
- 29. A Perfect Evil
- 30. Split Second
- 31. The Soul Catcher
- 32. At the Stroke of Madness
- 33. A Necessary Evil
- 34. Exposed
- 35. Black Friday
- 36. Damaged
- 37. In Human Form
- 38. Never Knowing
- 39. 24 Declassified: Head Shot
- 40. Time for Eternity
- 41. If I Stay
- 42. The Last Werewolf
- 43. Hush, Hush
- 44. Dead Reckoning
- 45. Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits
- 46. The Keeper
- 47. The Missing
- 48. Graveminder
- 49. Spider Bones
- 50. Fairy Tale Lust
- 51. White Ghost
- 52. Trader
- 53. The Outlaws of Sherwood
- 54. Greenmantle
- 55. The Little Country
- 56. Memory & Dream
- 57. Don’t Kill the Messenger
- 58. The Dreaming Place
- 59. Dead on Delivery
- 60. Dreams Underfoot
- 61. From a Whisper to a Scream
- 62. I’ll Be Watching You
- 63. The Ivory and the Horn
- 64. Such a Nice Guy
- 65. Dear Sun, I Am Real
- 66. Smokin’ Seventeen
- 67. Why We Suck
- 68. Tempest Rising
- 69. Someplace to Be Flying
- 70. Hot Mama
- 71. The Girls
- 72. Lord of the Changing Winds
- 73. Explosive Eighteen
- Finished Objects 2008
- 1. Hunter’s Fingerless Mitts
- 2. Matrix scarf
- 3. Freakishly Thin Mitts
- 4. Chunky cable scarf
- 5. Teal fingerless mitts
- 6. Yellow twisted pumpkin hat
- 7. k2p1 mitts
- 8. Red and black toddler hat
- 9. Hooded toddler sweater
- 10. Harvey Kimono
- 11. Fuzzy black non-chemo child’s cap
- 12. Fuzzy black chemo cap
- 13. Carol’s fingerless mittens
- 14. Toni’s purple fuzzy scarf
- 15. Rose ombre fingerless mitts
- 16. Purple and white extra-chunky scarf
- 17. Lynda’s mitts
- 18. Maresa’s Christmas cowl
- 19. Shane’s really long scarf
- 20. Just Enough Ruffles
- 21. Cranberry fingerless mitts
- 22. Sarah’s fingerless mitts
- 23. Not Sarah’s mitts
- 24. Potato chip scarf
- 25. Cupcake’s Ruffled Scarf
- 26. Kai
- Charity “squares”: 66
- Finished Objects 2009
- 1. Cupcake’s fetching mitts
- 2. Julie’s Ruffled Scarf
- 3. Ashley’s scarf
- 4. Ashley’s 4-cable mitts
- 5. Cupcake’s long fetching mitts
- 6. Cupcake’s socks
- 7. Blanket square for Zoom
- 7b. Another square for Zoom
- 8. Jules’ baby aran sweater
- 9. Bonnie’s Fetching mitts
- 10. Blankie squares for Carrie
- 11. Mark’s dashing mitts
- 12. Happy hearts and flowers socks
- 13. Mistake-rib scarf
- 14. MIL’s potato-chip scarf
- 15. Arianna’s Baby Einstein (Baby Albert?)
- 16. MIL’s fetching mitts
- 17. Olive helmet liner
- 18. Another olive helmet liner
- 19. Susie’s palindrome scarf
- Baby blanket squares: 15
- Finished Objects 2010
- 1. Toddler beret
- 2. Toddler beret the second
- 3. Waiting-room hat
- 4. Mini waiting-room hat
- 5. Toddler beret the third
- 6. Arcadia Knitting baby sweater
- 7. FIL convertible Dashing mitts
- 8. Arianna’s blue-green jacquard hat
- 9. Arianna’s blue-green booties
- 10. K1P1 Noro scarf
- 11. Jacquard baby albert (baby einstein?)
- 12. Smock with Sheep and Shoes
- 13. Blue baby albert (baby einstein?)
- 14. Newborn Twisted Pumpkin hat
- 15. Pink baby shrug
- 16. K2P2 knot beanie
- 17. Child’s K2P2 hat
- 18. Lilac child’s roll-brim hat
- 19. BC14′s K1P1 fingerless mitts
- 20. K7P1 hat
- 21. Tony’s mistake-rib scarf
- 22. Newborn mitts and booties
- 23. Jewel-tone fingerless mitts
- Charity “squares”: 15
- Yarn usage 2010
- Podcasts I like
- French review
- Knitting and crafts
- Brass Needles
- Cast-On
- Changelings Knit and Stitch
- CRAFTCAST
- CraftSanity
- Diva Knitting
- Doubleknit
- Electric Sheep
- Fiber Beat
- It’s a Purl, Man
- KIPing It Real
- Knaked Knits
- Knit Picks’
- Knit Sibs
- Knitajourney
- Knitmoregirls’s
- Knitting in the Round
- Knitty Nora’s Knitting Natter
- Let’s Knit 2gether
- Lime & Violet
- Moonlight Stitches
- Never Not Knitting
- Pastagalaine
- Purl Diving
- SassyPants Knitter
- Stash & Burn
- Sticks & String
- Stitch it!!
- Stitch Stud and His Bride
- The High Fiber Diet
- The Savvy Girls Knitting
- ThreadBanger
- Y Knit
- Yarn Thing
- Non-knitting, non-language
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