CraftLit: a Podcast for Busy People who Love Audiobooks

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CraftLit—on the air since 2006—has a back catalog of 25+ annotated audiobooks to keep your mind active while your hands are busy. We're working over at the Shoppe (http://crafting-a-life.com/shop) to bring you downloadable Audiobooks-with-Benefits and over at Patreon.com/craftlit and CafePress (http://www.cafepress.com/wwmdfk) to bring you all sorts of CraftLit-y goodies to wear and to have and to hold.

Thoughts on The Last Unicorn? 🦄Book club is coming up this week. This Thursday, August 28, 8pm ET. If you're not a membe...
08/25/2025

Thoughts on The Last Unicorn? 🦄

Book club is coming up this week.

This Thursday, August 28, 8pm ET.

If you're not a member, you can easily join through our profile.

Book clubs and watch parties are held at our private Discord. It's easy to use, trust me!

Next month's hangout is a fun and cozy watch party for The Last Unicorn film. By Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass.

If you want to be notified of the movie, just comment "Unicorn" and we'll tag you at least a week before the watch party on September 25, 8pm ET. 🤓

I’m outside! Checking out our new local Distillery in Lambertville, NJ (). Very cute and comfy, but I’m noticing that s...
08/15/2025

I’m outside! Checking out our new local Distillery in Lambertville, NJ (). Very cute and comfy, but I’m noticing that since we started Moby Dick I’m being stalked by naval ephemera everywhere I go.

Help?I picked these four apples (?) this morning from a tree in our neighborhood. It’s been there for awhile and no one ...
08/06/2025

Help?
I picked these four apples (?) this morning from a tree in our neighborhood. It’s been there for awhile and no one I’ve talked to knows what kind of apple/edible state thereof. This is Eastern PA. Are these…crabapples? Deadly poison? Any ideas?

Two antique stores this past weekend, two *sheaves* in the wild!Thank you Moby Dick! (ch16) Now I know what those wheels...
08/05/2025

Two antique stores this past weekend, two *sheaves* in the wild!
Thank you Moby Dick! (ch16) Now I know what those wheels are called 🤓 .com/book/moby

Yesterday afternoon’s doings:—3 Lentil and 1 split pea soup bases (PRESSURE processed 🤓)—Four (ish) pints spiced peaches...
07/27/2025

Yesterday afternoon’s doings:

—3 Lentil and 1 split pea soup bases (PRESSURE processed 🤓)
—Four (ish) pints spiced peaches (waterbathed)
—Four (ish) pints Dilly Beans (waterbathed)

Lesson takeaway:
Heather can cram a WHOLE LOT MORE beans and peaches into the jars! 🤦‍♀️. Today’s plan—clean, freeze, vacuum seal a ton of broccoli, and maybe makes small batch of salsa, make corn cob jelly (a first), and maybe some Branston Pickle (that may have to wait). ————-And how can I do this with long-COVID? ——— 1) VERY clear step-by-step recipes (lowers the number of spoons used), and, 2) a high/counter chair (with a back, not a bar stool). That seems to allow me a chance to do more time-consuming things without being wiped out for the next three days.

At a flea market this morning I saw some shuttles with bobbin beds that were a bit different from what I’ve seen before—...
07/27/2025

At a flea market this morning I saw some shuttles with bobbin beds that were a bit different from what I’ve seen before—lamb’s wool! Inside the shuttles!
I asked if this was to slow down silk bobbins and found out that indeed it was. These all came from a mill in Allentown, PA where several generations had farmed their own silk worms, reeled their own silk, wove their own fabric AND produced some finished clothes (and sold the rest of the fabric). 🥰

Giveaway open until July 31!CraftLit's raffle this month is:Botanical Knits: 12 Designs - Inspired by Trees and Foliage ...
07/22/2025

Giveaway open until July 31!

CraftLit's raffle this month is:

Botanical Knits: 12 Designs - Inspired by Trees and Foliage by Alana Davos of Never Not Knitting.

This is a 112 page book that incorporates the natural beauty of plant life into 12 different garments and accessories.

There’s ALSO.. sweaters for every occasion, a cloche, a matching pair of textured socks and mittens, and an elegant leaf-bordered wrap.

Each of the 12 pieces in this book are botanically inspired, which is super fascinating. It comes with charted + written pattern instructions to make it easy to follow.

If you love nature and knitting, come join the raffle.

Open until July 31.🍃

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/4847a56382/?widget_template=5a21441d014882ee0dc5109e

This bonus CraftLit episode is steeped in all things tea!I sat down with Andy Hayes of Plum Deluxe Tea (CraftLit's first...
07/19/2025

This bonus CraftLit episode is steeped in all things tea!

I sat down with Andy Hayes of Plum Deluxe Tea (CraftLit's first-ever sponsor!) to get answers to many of our burning questions.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/VfYEvboaQEQ

POLL QUESTION: There are several other Cranford-adjacent stories that E Gaskell wrote. Would you like me to do those rig...
07/15/2025

POLL QUESTION: There are several other Cranford-adjacent stories that E Gaskell wrote.

Would you like me to do those right after we're done with Cranford?

Comment YES or NO below! 👇

Yay !!! ☀️ -your-own
07/11/2025

Yay !!!
☀️ -your-own

Made it! THANK YOU! ❤️❤️❤️It’s so very book-loving In the lobby—and the set is perfect (even without the older gentlema...
06/28/2025

Made it! THANK YOU! ❤️❤️❤️
It’s so very book-loving In the lobby—and the set is perfect (even without the older gentleman 😉)

Peter may be lost to the mists of time (or possibly crowned the llama of Tibet, if Miss Pole is to be believed) but it’s...
06/27/2025

Peter may be lost to the mists of time (or possibly crowned the llama of Tibet, if Miss Pole is to be believed) but it’s Lady Glenmire who’s dropped the real bombshell in this week’s chapter.

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