Back from visiting my folks on the east coast. A great trip but also a LONG commute back here to New Mexico. (I am a morning person but 6 a.m. flights are EARLY!) I’ve got a finish and a few other things I worked on this week to share.

First up, I finished my Faded Stripes shawl. This is a free pattern from Hedgehog Fibres and is a really great way to use up 2 skeins of sock yarn. It is mostly mindless garter stitch stripes with a bit of shaping to give a slightly asymmetrical deep crescent. I used a skein of Countess Ablaze BFL Sock and a skein of Green Letter Day Sock, both from my Bin 10 project stash. This one will be added to the box for hospice shawls I’m planning to send out this week.

Next, I’m still working along on my 100-day project of hand-pieced star hexagons in shades of blue. Today marked day 36 of the 100 days. My mum really liked the ones she saw that I was working on at her house, so when I have the hexi’s assembled into a table runner, that’ll be going to her.

I took along the half-finished Tea Leaves socks, the first of which I finished earlier this year, and managed to get almost the entire leg knit for sock 2. I’m knitting this pattern up using Long Dog Yarn’s Sock Yarn in the color Riders of Rohan. Hoping to get the final pattern repeat knit this week and then turn the heel.

Since I finished up Faded Stripes, I hauled out another WIP this weekend, my Painted Plains scarf. I would like to try to get this one finished up in the next month or so. It’s also pretty mindless knitting so I’m hoping if I focus on it, I can make some good progress on it.

No photos to share, but I am halfway through this month’s blocks of the month on my Jane Austen quilt and should have those finished up by next week. I really am trying to stay focused on finishing up a bunch of WIPs right now, but I have been eyeing the supplies for a spring-y pink cardigan that’s on my Make 9 list for this year. Trying not to cast that on, but it is something I really want in my wardrobe this year, so if I can get Painted Plains finished up, that may happen next.

Have a good week YOP’ers!