102 New Month, New Year

Ep 102 recorded 2/9/22
Knit For Food Knitathon THIS WEEKEND
https://givebutter.com/knitforfood22/moniqueleonard
Update as of posting this episode - over $181,000! Please donate! Help put us over $200K
Be A Helper Craftalong - Just over a month to go!
6th Be A Helper Craft-a-long has begun! We keep the rules simple.
Anything you make for any charity counts, doesn’t have to be knit/crochet/woven or spun. ANYthing you make for ANY charity.
One FO per submission
Donating blood counts too!
Contest ends when I wake up March 15 and close the form/thread.
Wips are always welcome
Partial FOs count, for example if you make a blanket strip and your local yarn shop sews them together to make full blankets, count your blanket strip.

One change this year – due to ongoing accessibility issues on Ravelery, I’ll hold this event both on and off Ravelry.  Last year we just used a  Google Form and that was hard for some folks, so this year there will be a chat thread and an FO thread on Rav, and for non-Rav users I’ll have a google form where you can link to your IG/FB/Twitter post showing your FO.
Link to submit your Finished Object/blood donation: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf08z2uqelVGeUBkm0fofQGveThChBBZzaMvNsRdlPlMzhbgA/viewform?usp=sf_link
Prizes
A set of mini skeins from Unwind Yarn Company – especially exciting as Dana does not dye anymore.
Jen Lassonde of Downcellar Studio has very generously offered one of her patterns and a skein of yarn, thank you Jen!
One skein of yarn - currently a mystery thanks to shipping delays.
FOs
A sample I can’t talk about, I finished it December 30th and very proud of it
Star Wars scarf for Thing 2 
 
WIPs
Recalibrate Top by Shana Lines using Nomad Yarn’s hand dyed cotton/rayon Gelato yarn.  I’m half way through the back panel in the yellow Gelato.
Knights Who Say Knit by Mary Annarella of Lyrical Knits, a really fun Monty Python and the Holy Grail inspired pattern.
Earthrise, a new pattern of mine inspired by the famous Nasa photo
Swatching for 4 new patterns, keep your ears peeled about those. 
Papillon/Butterfly shawl by MarinJa Knits
Out and About Virtually
Vogue Knitting Live Vogue Knitting Live @ Home Feb 17-20 and Mar 17-20.  Vogue Knitting Live in person in NYC is cancelled for 2022 but will be back Feb 9-12 2023
GGKCS podcast is having their annual Winter AL, visit their FB page for more details.
Down Cellar Studio’s Pigskin party is ending this weekend – be sure to get your points in.
Stitches at Home Feb 12-13, Stitches West in person Mar 3-6 2022.
If you have any events you’d like me to share please email me windsweptmonique@gmail.com
I’ve Got Sunshine
My 6-year old helped me plan the garden this year.