Episode 39: An Affection for Color

FO: Finished Object; WIP: Work in Progress; NAP: Needle Adjacent Project, soon to be cast on; KAL: knit a long.

• Lifestories: Christmas prep, shopping. Family time with dinner, Tuba Christmas, church. E's birthday on the 17th.
• FO: Color Affection. laceweight version by Veera Valimaki in Knit Picks Shadow. Cast on during Rhinebeck trip, made bigger than the pattern. Still needs blocking and ends woven in. Also mentioned the Fall Shawl Style wrap up that Jen posted and had my caritas shawl in it; my color affection is certainly fall to me!
• WIP: Neontastic Socks.
• WIP: Fruju Daybreak.
• WIP: test knit for Julia, @weesheep
• new WIP: colorwork
• new WIP: Rikke hat. learned German Twisted Cast on.
• NAP: Briar Rose yarn, for Idlewood. determined I wanted to knit top down because I wanted it to be longer, so I'm sticking with Idlewood instead of CustomFit.
• NAP: another sample/test knit with provided yarn to be cast on
• Stash Enhancement: yarn coming from Voolenvine; see also 25 days of enabling #25daysofenabling

• Sagas of Geekery: boardgamegeek: played games at home and out: Race for the Galaxy, Splendor with brother and sister in law, Firefly with the Blue Sun expansion for the first time (pic of one of the two tables!), For Sale and Family Fluxx with sister in law and kids at Guardian.
• Sagas of Geekery: entertainment: fall finales of Castle and Agents of SHIELD; Hobbit 3 this weekend.
• Book of Cooking: Baked Potato Soup, Christmas Enchiladas, Pizza, and the Lethal Peppermint Cake from Cake Mix Doctor
• Book of Cooking: on the menu plan: Christmas Cookies and Christmas day brunch
• Fanciful Chatter: Now Wearing: a Handful sport bra in Battle Cry Pink! (best tagline ever for a sports bra company: flatter not flatten :D )
• Happiness Continues: counting the joys of the holiday on instagram with hashtag #christmasgifts
• Happiness Continues: enjoying the colors of the season, but in MY color preferences :)

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