CraftLit: a Podcast for Busy People who Love Audiobooks

01/10/2026

https://youtu.be/yCgnGxzS1YY?si=_P1dy_KKayuNo6mC
I haven’t watched this yet, but I was SO HAPPY to see this pop up! Hope it does her justice!

Elizabeth Zimmermann didn’t just design knitting patterns — she completely changed the way we think about knitting.In this episode of my Knitting Icons serie...

01/05/2026

Cold winter night, reconstructing a childhood quilt…first time I’ve picked up technology in hours. Do winters’ nights make you crave being unplugged, too?

12/30/2025

I didn’t have twins, but this made me happy for people who do. Family bathroom near American check-in.

12/29/2025

Everything you see. Whether it’s a voiceover, a book we discuss, a video we put out, our graphics, our monthly letters, you can trust that it is all made with and by real people.

CraftLit is for you, your friends, and anyone else that needs honest, AI-free, human-read, bot-averse literature.

A LOT of our audiobooks and resources are available for free and have been for years. If you want monthly hangouts, ad-free listening, and 40+ exclusive annotated audiobooks, you can access this on our new Supercast platform and take advantage of the discounts until 2026. craftlit.supercast.com

As always, we will continue to ensure that CraftLit is a truthful space for the people, with real texts and literature, narrated by real (amazing) voice actors, all presented to you by actual folks. 🤓

(We can't believe that humanity is now a selling point.)

Regardless of how you choose to be with us, we see you, and we appreciate you.

Thank you so much for engaging with us and supporting real, independent media.

Here's to another year of human art, literature, critical thinking, and hand-made creations.

What are your thoughts on this?

Happy New Year!! 💜

12/22/2025

Save this for later! Tis the season to get cozy. ☕

These are all different plays, poems, and short stories you can easily listen to in our 12 Days of CraftLit playlist on YT.

For these particular reads, you can find them in the First, Second, and Third Day of CraftLit. Plus a crap ton more.

Each episode or Day of CraftLit is roughly around 2 hours long containing multiple Christmas-themed audiobooks. And you can listen to them all on our Youtube!

In case you can't read the text in the photo, here's the list of classic lit you can read this Christmas. (You can screenshot this too)

🎄 The Mouse and the Christmas Cake by Anonymous
🎄 The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Anderson
🎄 Hoodoo McFiggins’ Christmas by Stephen Leacock
🎄 The Child Who Had Everything But by John Kenrdrick Bangs
🎄 Santa Claus And Little Billee by John Kendrick Bangs
🎄 Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome
🎄 A Cornish Christmas Play by William Sandys
🎄 The Christmas Gift That Came To Rupert by Bret Harte
🎄 What Makes Christmas Christmas by Grace Latimer Jones
🎄 Chaparral Christmas Gift by O Henry
🎄 Christmas by Paul Laurence Dunbar
🎄 Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Have a wonderful December, regardless of what you celebrate. 💜

12/17/2025

Which Jane Austen book do you fancy most? 🌼

Whether you’re a die-hard Jane Austen fan or a first-time reader, come listen to any of these books on CraftLit and get ready to fall head over heels.

Each of these audiobooks come with annotations and chapter-by-chapter discussions. 🤓

Happy you’re here to hear!

https://craftlit.com/library/

12/16/2025

No captions needed here. 🥔

12/04/2025

Free movie night coming up!

This is a free watch party, which means ANYONE can join.

This is for anyone who needs a lovely reminder of the good in life. For all the folks that feel discouraged. For those of us that would feel better watching meaningful, heartwarming Christmas movies among friends.

Join our Discord in this link. Movie night is on Dec 4, Thursday, 8pm ET. We'll see you there. 💜

https://discord.com/invite/M7jtQKrwW3

11/28/2025

Sure sure, Turkey et al was great —and so fun to have the kids up to share it with us, but the Thanksgiving miracle was two loaves of delicious Stottie bread!
I tweaked the normal recipe to be GF using flour (responsible for the miracle) and psyllium husks (wingman to the flour) and a tad more water and OH MY GOODNESS! It worked!!!
A northern England sandwich bread that did NOT need to be toasted to be palatable. A miracle indeed! Have you used/heard of this flour before? ( )

10/31/2025

Best (most tragic) costume seen in Lambertville, NJ tonight.

10/31/2025

Psst. Short on time? Here's 5 creepy stories in our Premium Halloween Collection, ending with one I will NOT listen to again. 🙃

Whole thing is less than 3 hours but do not let that fool you. This was NOT fun to put together at night.

Our Spooky Halloween Collection includes:

🖤 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

🖤 Usher II by Ray Bradbury

🖤 The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

🖤 The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

🖤 Faces at the Window by Rose Wilder Lane (A CraftLit special)

If you're already on Premium, you SHOULD have access to all of the above, plus the rest of our premium stuff.

You can find this collection on our site or on YT.

If you don't have premium, you can access this in the same places after becoming a member!

In case none of the stories above is your taste, consider:

🎃 Frankenstein
🎃 Dracula

AND some horror stories I narrated:

🦇 Sleepy Hollow (My second best narration ever)
🦇 The New Mother (Old Story Coralline was based on)
🦇 My Closet is Trying to Kill Me (Look up "As Danger Unfolds" Ep 329 Chilling Tales for Dark Nights Podcast (Horror Fiction) on YT)

All of those 3 videos can be found on Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.

Everything else? CraftLit. 🤓

Enjoy!

10/27/2025

Quick detour for dinner at (WOW! So good!). We got there an hour before opening so shopped In the attached Mall housing a vintage lover’s paradise called — vintage patterns for my measurements (!!!), bone bobbins and crochet hooks, thimbles that FIT, velvet scrap bags (crazy quilts!), some lace, plus the little gadget here. I’ll be fixing my dull scissors when I get back home.