Thursday, October 15, 2020 If you are an American citizen, PLEASE VOTE!   Are you registered to vote?  You can check your voter registration HERE.   The 2020 2 Knit Lit Chicks Fall Sweater KAL has officially started!  You can find all the details here.  Need some ideas?  Check out our BUNDLES! ? Beginner Knitted Sweaters ? Knitted Sweaters for Adventurous Beginners to Advanced ? Crocheted Sweaters   Virtual get-together via  Zoom on Saturdays, 12 noon  PST - Details here   Our friend Dinaripper is making wonderful 3D masks with adjustable elastic ear-loops!  They come in lots of fun prints and are really comfortable and well-made.  Check them out here.   Want a giggle and some fabulous yarn?  Check out Despondent Dyes, a duo of dyers whose tagline is "We Set Our Colors with the Acidity of our Bitter Tears..."  Their colorway names are hilarious, and their yarns are beautiful.   KNITTING Tracie has finished: Eyelet Messy Bun Hat #1 by Miranda Riley in The Violet Valentine Winsome Worsted in  Coral Fixation Darling Darby Sweater by Jean Clement in tangerine acrylic   Barb has finished: Mother Bears 230 & 231 Lineate by Elizabeth Doherty, using 3 colors of Knit Picks Palette - cream, dark gray and a pinky red Vanilla Socks using and set of Fibernymph Dye Works Inversibles in blue and pink  Holey Comfort Cardigan by Hinterm Stein, using Holst Garn Coast Uul Bomuld in the Ice Sea colorway   Tracie has cast on: Eyelet Messy Bun Hat by Miranda Riley in KFI Luxury Collection  Indulgence Hand Painted in Cirque Royale   And continues to work on: Fiddly Bits by Jane Pihota Niamh by Isabell Kraemer in Miss Babs Katahdin in Smurf & Turf  Little Unicorn by Lorraine Pistorio in Alexandra The Art of Yarn Pendleton   Barb is working on: Bautista shawl by Celia McAdam Cahill in Invictus Yarns YakLux in the NoCKRs 2020 colorway  Multidirectional Diagonal Scarf by Karen Baumer, using a Caron Cake And has cast on: Granito pullover by Joji Locatelli, using Western Sky Knits Aspen Sock in an unknown colorway Union Table Runner by Joan Beebe, using Knit Picks Swish DK Bare Bear and a Bunny Suit by Susan B. Anderson, using 2 skeins of Plymouth Encore in an oatmeal and a turquoise    BOOKS  Tracie read: Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover & Me by Adrienne Brodeur - 5 stars The Golden Child by Wendy James - 3.5 stars Stay Up With Hugo Best by Erin Somers Finished Books - 2.5 stars   Barb read: One Little Secret by Cate Holahan - 3 stars Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff - 4 stars Anxious People by Frederik Bachman - 5 stars