Episode 78: Summer Reading KAL Prizes

FOs

Katie
- April Snow by Knitterella (Jill Zielinski) using Plucky Knitter Snug fingering (70% merino, 20% cashmere, 10% alpaca) in Wanderlust, Plucky Knitter primo fingering in Pink Champagne on Ice, and Spun Right Round Snappy Sock in Shock Star
- Paris Toujours by Isabell Kraemer knit with The Plucky Knitter Crew in Magnet & Stee

Moab Shawl – pattern by verybusymonkey, yarn was my handspun from WC Mercantile
Dragon’s Egg Bowl – started out as pattern by Graffic Designs (Ovum Dracona Drawstring Bag) but I didn’t have enough yarn, yarn was my handspun from a Gritty Knits batt in “Patina”

Spinning

Three Waters Farm 100% Polwarth in “Sky Behind the Trees,” will ply with another Three Waters Farm “The Light in the Trees”

Active WIPS

Vanilla socks by Susan B. Anderson, using Rock and String Creations in “Appalachian Autumn”
No. 2 Pencil Socks, using Yarn Enabler yarn in No. 2 Pencil, incorporates OMG Heel by Megan Williams and Vanilla Latte Socks by Virginia Rose-Jeanes
Riley Rose shawl by Jennifer Lassonde, using Stunning String Studio in Wild Blue Yonder, Westminster Blue, and Gouda
Color Study by Karalee Harding using Daizie Knits Hardy (discontinued base) in Wicked Cool with SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock in Boysenberry

Spinning

Casting on soon!

Katie
- Om shawl by Andrea Mowry using Plucky Knitter snug worsted in wanderlust, social graces, melba, and gilded age

Acquisitions

Katie
- OCD sock yarn from Must Stash in Autumn Afterglow
- Yarn from Stitches Texas (Stunning String Studio, Twisted Owl Fiber Studio, Fresh from the Cauldron, Gynx Yarns)

Somer
- Elemental Fibers Visions of Fiber club – colorways based on NASA/JPL’s Visions of the Future poster series. The third was Earth on ______
- Stitches Texas acquisitions: Stunning String Creations fingering in Wild Blue Yonder, Westminster Blue, and Gouda; Twisted Owl Fiberworks Worsted in “Cosmos,” DK minis in “Slate” and “Papaya”; Undead Yarn Self Striping in the Vamphyri base in “Troll”; Gynx Yarns self striping in “Gingerbread House” and fiber in “Pumpkin Patch” (either Masham or BFL); Hedgehog Fibres sock yarn in “Pod”; bag from Kitchen Counter Crafter

Other Crafty Pursuits

Summer Reading KAL Prizes

Short story – Rock & String Creations, phoenixfire
Novel – Somer’s handspun, crouchingcheese
Chunkster – Daizie Knits, lmecoll
Boxed set – Undead Yarn, CrazyKnittingFool
Chatter thread – sock blocker keychain, JillSerenity; Diana Couture DPN holder, EKellyO

In the Kitchen

Reading & Watching

Somer
- Finished The Daughters by Adrienne Celt
- Finished The After Party by Anton DiSclafani
- Reading Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr (#7 in Anna Pigeon series)
- On hold until available in Overdrive again: Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm

Kitchen Stitches