Trying to get back into the swing of craft blogging! Hoping if I move my update to midweek it will be easier to remember to get photos and actually post. It’s been a busy and hectic fall here but I have been working on this – just not getting them blogged about!

Flourish Socks: I finished these up in October but never posted about them. The pattern is from Helen Stewart/Curious Handmade, and I used Hue Loco’s Phyllis Sock in the colorway Red-Tailed Hawk. I wasn’t sure if I would like the sort of striped way this color worked with the pattern, but I actually think it highlights the lace pattern quite nicely.

Denim and Lace Quilt: I’ve been slowly working on this and I have six of the 12 blocks completed. I am really enjoying this pattern from Amanda over at Westwood Fabrics, as well as the fabrics she put in the kit for it. It has a scrappy feel without being an actual scrappy quilt.

Pontes Shawl: This project is a choose-your-own-adventure kind of thing and I’m working on it as a KAL with my friend, Jane. The premise is that we all started with the same color for color 1. Then we got to pick color 2 based on a This or That option with a story card about a spooky graveyard in a rain storm. And then there’s a third color choice based on your pick for color 2. The shawl is designed to really let the subtle color gradient show with bands of garter stitch and brioche. And it’s hard to beat the lovely 50/50 silk/merino base. It’s knitting up into a lovely drape with a soft hand.

Gradient Lights Shawl: I’m using a gradient set of handspun skeins for this pattern (which is originally written or 3 skeins of sock yarn) in warm taupe and cinnamon browns. It has a simple broken rib pattern alternating with feather and fan bands. It’s another great easy pattern perfect for working thru stash yardage but easy enough to pick up and put down as needed.

A Long Winter’s Nap: I am just over the 56% complete point with my October stitches on this one. I’m trying to put about 425 stitches a week into this and so while there’s progress, it is in small amounts at a time.

Additionally, although I do not have photos, I am working on:

• Supernova quilt: I am assembling component from the month 4 shipment
• Sleepy Hollow blanket squares
• Birlinn blanket squares in sock yarn scraps (ongoing probably to infinity and beyond)
• New cast-on for the Miles hat for a coworker as a gift
• New cast-on for a pair of colorwork socks with mice on them for a holiday gift