day after Princess Bride --- tags: [shownotes, Cranford, Gaskell, cranford] Linking Index: CraftLit_Shownotes_Dashboard date: 2025-06-22 --- # Podcast Literature Note: Cranford Date: 2025-06-22 Episode and Title 690-chess pieces Book Cranford Chapters - Starting Chapter: 12-Engaged to Be Married Patrons already recorded - need to get N&S time codes for Erik Raffle Item 03:55 - Foundation Paper Piecing patterns INCLUDE THESE PIX IN SHOWNOTES GIRL READING JANE AUSTEN 
SHERLOCK HOLMES 
FREE BOOK TRACKER
A-Block-Crafty Chat Notes - 02.00 - This week’s Tea - Bookshop Blend white https://bit.ly/craftlit-pdtea - 04:30 - Benjamin Dryer of “Dryer’s English” & Andrew on AI this is what he wrote to me to introduce all these interactions: - The reason I was remembering this book (that I can’t quite remember) is that the idea of scale has been on my mind. It started with this story, and then this post that I wrote in response to it—and then this post by Benjamin Dreyer, which I asked my Chat-GPT to respond to, which then led to THIS piece from America’s Copy Editor, with both of us being a little dazzled and a little terrified by a “mere” predictive-text engine’s ability to create a phrase like “phrenology for prose.” 05:49 - my audio is suddenly louder - dunno why. I don't think I'm suddenly closer to the mic. I'm on earbuds - 07:30 - CraftLit is now on Audible—please check and let us know if it worked! - 08:20 - Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah - 10:25 - Jameella Jamil’s article - 12:17 - Don’t forget to send us your crafty videoslike Steph!!! - 13:00 - Listener Margaret had JUST read this book on the Porter Sisters when their books were mentioned on a Cranford episode! ZEITGEIST!!!! - 13:46 - I just listened to the podcast Haptic and Hue: Tales of Textiles. the June 4 episode is on The Witches of Scotland: How a New Tartan Became a Living Memorial - and thought Craftlit people would be interested—thank you JayKay - 15:20 - And from Maia a BBC podcast on the same topic - 15:30 - And another podcast from Lily M Re-hash Chapter 11 Pre-hash Chapter 12 16:05 - A Moving Chess Pieces Chapter - 17:49 - “veiled prophet in Lalla Rookh” by Thomas Moore (1799-1852), verse tales joined by prose text, first tale “The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan” Edward Said’s book Orientalism - 19:00 - Rowland’s Kalydor: a skin tonic with a basis of almond oil. - 19:20 - Bonds are issued by governments or companies wishing to raise money. Foreign bonds in Cranford = risky (a kind of South Sea bubble). - 22:56 - “Tibbie Fowler”—poem by Robert Burns (1756 to 1796) - 24:30 - “Queen of Spain’s Legs”—just sayin’ 🤣 47:21 - Post Chapter Chat - 51:10 - it’s not The Kiss scene, it’s “The Reunion Scene” and you can find it here. Don’t forget to send us your crafty videos SEND US YOUR CRAFTY VIDEOS BOOK/WATCH PARTIES coming up in 2025: - Last Thursday of every month, 8pm Eastern: - Jan—All About Eve (Buckle up!) - Feb—Rebecca (book) - Mar—Rebecca (movie —if requested, a double feature of Hitchcock’s version vs the 2020 remake) - Apr—Thin Man (book) - May—Thin Man ~~(movie — - ~~Jun—Princess Bride (book—there are many versions - Heather has notes on which Forward to read) ~~ - Jul—Princess Bride (movie) - Aug—The Last Unicorn (book) - Sep—The Last Unicorn (movie) - Oct—Random Harvest (book) - Nov—Random Harvest (movie) - Dec—Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal (book) Here are the patterns for the raffle/give away. I also have a free Book Tracker quilt pattern that people might be interested in. It’s also an FPP pattern and can be found here: https://www.snugglepuzzle.com/book-tracker-quilt/ It would be a great first pattern for people who haven’t tried FPP before. Thanks again for all you do! Erin Links to patterns on Heather’s Mini @snugglepuzzle