Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode number 195, which we are recording on Saturday, June 22nd, 2019.

I'm Gail.

And I'm Charlene.

And yesterday, Friday, June 21st, was the kickoff of the

colors of fall knit along. Happy summer, everyone. Yeah, happy summer. And true to summertime recording

for us, we are recording on location at the University of California at Santa Cruz and it's a beautiful day and

you might hear some insects or some birds because we're sitting out pretty

much outside and amongst the trees and hopefully there'll be some wildlife

sightings besides the birds and butterflies that I can't identify, but it's very

beautiful out today. So what are you wearing? I was wearing earlier my magical thinking pullover

shawl by Casapinka. This was a pattern that was a giveaway on the local yarn store day back in April.

Local yarn store day is a event sponsored by TNNA,

and Casapinka, aka Bronwyn, has been kind enough for a couple of years now to create a pattern to support local

yarn stores so thank you very much Bronwyn. Yeah that's really cool. It's really wonderful that we

have designers who think of the lifeline that local yarn stores are to our community.

So I like to support her any way I can.

And so thank you, Casapinka, aka Bronwyn.

The pullover shawl is a very cool pattern.

It really is easy to pull over t-shirts on summer days, and I was wearing

it because it was a little foggy this morning. It is not now, so I am not wearing it now. It's not

foggy here yet. It's not foggy. It's moving in, though. Yes, I noticed that. Yeah, I did notice that. Yeah. It's

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