Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode number 179, which we are recording on Wednesday, November 7, 2018.

I'm Gail.

And I'm Charlene.

And we've decided that we're going to do our announcements

in the beginning of the podcast today because we are getting really good at what we're

calling podcaster fails when we completely forget our announcements. So we decided we should

do it early so we don't forget. So two knit alongs I wanted to talk about briefly.

Robbie, our moderator, is running one called the Whip Cal, so Works in Progress Cal.

And it started right after Colors of Fall, knit along ended, and it goes through December 31st.

There is a lot of chatter in that thread.

I have not even tried to keep up. I haven't either,

and I just wanted to quickly mention that we're not necessarily covering that knit along on the

podcast. It's more of a group knit along for people who participate in the chat in our rivalry group. Right. So we won't talk about it on the podcast much because we're kind of not, I don't want to say sponsoring it, but Charlene and I have both been too busy to be involved in it. Yes. Act of participants. Exactly. Goodness knows I have some whips. I'd love to finish. But there are also some really, really good prizes. So check that out if you're interested.

And our next upcoming Yarniaks cow is the self-indulgent knit along.

Now think of that as knit along, crochet along, spin along, make-along.

Doesn't have to be knit along, even though KAL has become such a common term.

Right, right.

But this is what we used to start on January 1st. But because we... been no long even though KAL has become such a common term. Right, right.

But this is what we used to start on January 1st, but because we're so equinox and solstice oriented,

we decided last year we're starting this on the winter solstice, which is Friday, December 21st,

and it will run through the spring equinox, which is 20th 2019 I just said 2019 you just did that's kind of alarming but the self-indulgent it along if you

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