Episode 30: Hawkeye Holidays

The girls are back and talk about the Hawkeye Initiative where comic book covers of physically impossible female poses are mocked by Hawkeye. Afterwards, it's all about the holiday crafting.
The girls wish everyone a happy holiday season!

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Get Geeky 

The girls talk about the Hawkeye Initiatve

• http://thehawkeyeinitiative.com/
• http://eschergirls.tumblr.com/

And Espana mentions the Anne Hathaway incident and her cool responses to the media.

• http://feministing.com/2012/12/13/matt-lauer-is-gross-anne-hathaway-kicks-slut-shamings-ass/
• http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/314ad1c060/the-sad-off-with-samuel-l-jackson-and-anne-hathaway

Get Crafty

Holiday Crafting

Sandy & España have been a bit too busy to do some holiday crafting. Sandy became very ill around Thanksgiving and España's boy was visiting from England for 2 weeks, but Sandy was able to eek out 2 scarves for her White Elephant at home.

Consequently, Jade's the busy bee of the trio with the following:

• Bottled liquors for her friends and family.
• Sent off her nephew's fingerless gloves for his birthday
• Finished up a pair of fingerless gloves for her neice
• Sewed a Steampunk utility belt/apron for her SIL.

Fiber Optics

Knitting:

• Jade:    

• Finished up her Adam’s Rib Hoodie,.       
• Sent off her nephew's fingerless gloves for his birthday
• Finished up a pair of fingerless gloves for her neice
• Started working on a top-down raglan pullover with a hoodie from her handspun.

• Sandy-- 
• Creating a "Cosby" sweater out of her scrap yarn
• Working on a pair of Java socks from Knitty
• She put down the the Apres Surf Hoodie for now
• http://www.interweavestore.com/Knitting/Patterns/Apres-Surf-Hoodie.html

Bead It

España finished working on a Sherlock beaded scarf, and sent it off to the intended recipient who wrote an article about it.

http://royalflushmagazine.com/2012/11/28/forget-bowties-i-wear-a-scarf-scarves-are-cool/

Get Musical!

For those of you listening to the end of the show, the music played at the end was "Awake Ye Scary Great Old Ones" that can be found at http://www.cthulhulives.org/solstice/