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FOs

• Somer
  • Knitting
    • Pay Day Socks by Leah Oakley using Destination Yarns in “Karachi”

• • Spinning
    • Twin Mommy Creations 100% Domestic Top in “Medley”
• Katie
  • In the Light by Casey Day-Crosier (Tangerine Designs). Asymmetric shawl knit holding fingering weight double, that transitions/marls into the next color. Also, an applied border that becomes fringe. Using Plucky knitter in a dark navy teal blue, a variegated blue and purple, and a purple pink.

Active WIPS

• Somer
  • Knitting

• • • Nightshift by Andrea Mowry using various handspun
    • Socks on a Plane by Laura Linneman using handspun BFL/silk from Created by Elsie B in the Christmas Time colorway
    • Vanilla Latte socks by Virginia Rose-Jeanes using Mint Rain “Witching Hour”
    • Here We Gnome Again by Sarah Schira using Unwind Yarn Company Twinkle sock in gold and white

• Katie
  • Meld shawl – 2 yarns marled together – plucky knitter oxford
  • Corner 2 corner crochet blanket using Caron worsted weight in a dark purple

Casting on soon:

Katie

• Mobius shawl is a crochet mobius wrap. I’m going to use Plucky Knitter bulky in Wanderlust.

Somer

• Avocado Sock by Knitbit Kirby
• Maybe G’night Cap by Sarah Schira

Acquisitions

• Somer
  • Bay Street Yarns DK in “Paradise Lost” – charity for Paradise, CA
  • Shipwrecked Sheep (formerly Bayou City Yarn Co) “Won’t Be Erased” – charity for trans awareness
  • Into the Whirled Superwash Corriedale in “Moxie”
  • Knit Picks Wool of the Andes in Iceberg Heather
• Katie
  • Plucky Knitter Beauregard DK – 60% cashmere, 40% yak, 300 yards

In the Kitchen

• Pie Squared Cookbook
  • Moroccan Shepherd’s Pie
  • Chocolate Pecan Pie with Chocolate Crust (and salted caramel sauce)

Reading & Watching

• Somer
  • Finished My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
  • Finished The Dragoneer: The Bonding by Vickie & Danny Knestaut (Vickie used to have the shop Bird Leg Bags)
  • Reading Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
• Katie
  • Finished My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton — “fantasy” retelling of Jane Eyre