Episode 78

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HAPPY PRIDE YA'LL!! This episode features a special starting at 16:10 discussing the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. It is an astounding and ever growing project. If you ever get the chance to see it, please go. It is archived in it's totality at aidsmemorial.com/quilt.

Open Throttle - 03:14

The 'Funambulus Socks' (ravelry link) are on the toe boxes. Made just in time for the hot days of summer. The DOG days of summer are about the constellation. Yes. Really.

Funambulus Socks. After a completed toe box.

I picked up some cross stitching and some tablet weaving.

Cross stitch in progress.

And the 'Spitfire Scarf' is done. For a given value of done anyway.

Midroll: Pride Pod MAL 2025 Ravelry group link: Here! - 13:20

All June. Post in the ravelry group or on Instagram for the opportunity to win! Use #PridePodMAL2025 to enter!

Pride Topic - 16:10

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Link above. It is a beautiful, loving, act of creation and resistance.

Thank An Editor: The Unsung Heroes of Podcasting - 39:02

Dropped Bike - 40:20

The 'Spitfire Scarf' (ravelry link) is the latest Dropped Bike because there doesn't seem to be a way to use the kit as intended which is frustrating and odd. And rather than continue to wrestle with it, I am throwing in the towel. I can't be having with this. A kit is supposed to be complete in and of itself. I should not be unable to finish a pattern completely when using a kit, nor should I have mini-skeins untouched at the end. This outcome tells me that this kit was ... not thoughtfully assembled.

The 'Spitfire Scarf'. Left: The scarf front and back. Right: Close up of the uncompleteable end.

In current LGBTQ news, this article from Pink News highlights some of the LGBTQ+ alligned women playing in the 2025 Grand Slam International Tennis competition.