🎤015-Cranford-693-07.18.2025

Podcast Literature Note: 15

Date: 2025-07-07 09:18

Episode goes live on 7-18-25

Episode and Title

693 Nation of Knitters

Book

15

KALL8

• Voicemails: NA

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Raffle Item & Tea

• 03:20 JULY - Botanical Knits: 12 Designs inspired by trees and foliage by Alana Davos of Never Not Knitting ==make bit-ly link to https://bookshop.org/p/books/botanical-knits-12-designs-inspired-by-trees-and-foliage-alana-dakos/9865942?ean=9780988324923&next=t or generic https://bookshop.org/shop/farleysbookshop please==
• 04:57 THIS WEEK’S TEA: Gratitude Blend https://bit.ly/craftlit-pdtea
• 05:43 Link to Discussion with Andy Hayes All About Tea

Crafty Chat

• Don’t forget to send us your crafty videos SEND US YOUR CRAFTY VIDEOS
• 07:10- review of Knit Nation
• 9:00 stitch of the month
• around 10:08 - I’m talking about what NOT to use the stitch for around 10:29 here’s my swatch around 12:18 color header pic The inner edge of odd pages has the page number :(

Re-hash Notes

22:30 We had a marvelous chapter 14, and the start of Miss Matty’s tea chop (and comfit dispensary) 23:17 HumanKind: a hopeful history by Rutger Bregman

23:51 Pre-hash Notes

• 25:00 TEA!
  • Congou - Chinese Black tea popular in 19th Century
  • (Lapsang) Souchong - fine variety of above; smoked-dried over pinewood fires (so it takes kind of marvelously smokey)
  • Gunpowder - fine type of green tea - EACH LEAF is rolled up to look granular (I checked, and yes, you can watch the leaves unroll while it steeps!)
  • Pekoe - superior black tea picked when leaves are still young and downy (Plum Deluxe has a Pekoe Ceylon Tea—because pekoe is actually a tea grade not a falvor profile!)
• 26:31 - Holy smoke! Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary is ONLINE now!
• 26:50 - The old Hundredth - musical version of Psalm 100 “All people that on earth do dwell” (Heather actually played it on the piano for you!)
• 28:05 - Baron Munchausen stories, all free to read or download: Public Domain Texts - Raspe’s Original English Edition (1785) The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  → Project Gutenberg - Bürger’s German Expansion (1786)
  Wunderbare Reisen zu Wasser und Lande, Feldzüge und lustige Abenteuer des Freiherrn von Münchhausen
  → German Text on Projekt Gutenberg-DE - Illustrated Edition (Gustave Doré, 1862)
  Beautifully illustrated version:
  → Internet Archive Scan - English Edition with Illustrations (1895)
  Baron Munchausen: His Travels and Surprising Adventures in Russia (Includes famous illustrations)
  → Project Gutenberg Free Audiobooks - LibriVox (English audiobook)
  → Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen (LibriVox) - LibriVox (German audiobook)
  → Wunderbare Reisen… (LibriVox)
• 30:46 - More on the Siege of Rangoon (1824)

32:20 - Chapter Audio

01:06:22 - Post-Chapter Notes

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)

REEL 1:

“I have a story about our most…interesting sponsorship offer.

At one of our last book club nights, the larger discussion of podcast and YouTuber sustainability and advertising came up and I shared the long-concealed story of how way back in the day, like…ten years ago, I received a NSFW sponsorship for the podcast.

Specifically, um. Toys. Adult toys.

I had a good think with myself over that one—I’m not anti-toy—but to this day I cannot figure out what it was about Craftlit that brought me that sponsorship offer - I mean, KIDS LISTEN TO THE SHOW.

These are the the kinds of BTS gems that drop every so often on our Book and Watch Parties that happen the last Thursday night of every month, 8pm Eastern US time.

This month, July 31st 2025, we’ll be watching The Princess Bride film together (we read it last month). Please feel free to join us as we knit/doodle/crochet/sketch/and sidebar-chat our way through the film.

I promise there will be no NSFW sponsorships that night—but I can NOT promise there won’t be stories…

Link to join is in the captions.”

REEL 2: Here’s something we learned last month for CraftLit’s monthly book party the last Thursday of every even-month:

Book and Screenwriter William Goldman actually improved The Book by writing the movie script the way he did.

There are entire sections of dialogue that he lifts from the book and puts in the movie. It is one of the best—if not the best—book-to-film adaptation that has been made.

Here’s a few scenes that are straight from the book and executed perfectly:

[insert 3 different scenes, with images/screenshots of the dialogue in the book itself. I have an idea how this can be edited, I’ll send to Erik/Aldrin when you’re done recording]

And SO much more.

And we can watch this movie together.

This month’s watch party for The Princess Bride will be on July 31, 2025.

Just join through the link in the captions. And if you don’t that would be simply- [For editors. Cut to Vizzini yelling “Inconceivable!“]

REEL 3: (Super short. Fun video!)

For this one, I recommend filming this on your cellphone. It can be like this where you’re walking around somewhere:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zyVWPHQ3NQ-f6C2nHRCwxsJiWKemTNAq/view?usp=drive_link

Or like this where you start the video by setting the phone down and just talking. (This is called a visual hook!)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMAtGMTs3Kh

“Okay, at last months CraftLit book party for William Gold’mans “The Princess Bride” We found the one person—perhps the ONLY person on the planet—who did NOT like Robin Wright as Princess Buttercup.

To be kind to all parties involved, we will not be releasing their name.

What I want to know is: AT THE TIME, who would have been a better Buttercup in The Princess Bride? Let me know.”