In two days the sale for the SAL begins, this time with 31 designers! If you are able to join our Ravelry Group, or follow our Instagram feed and participate there, we have games and prizes as well as access to our designers in both places. The sale is available for anyone who wishes to purchase, but we would be so happy if you joined us in the event, as well.

Each designer has a bundle of five patterns that will be on sale with the coupon code sal2022 from 5:00 pm PDT July 22, 2022 through 11:59 pm PDT July 29, 2022. You can find my bundle on Ravelry and the same five patterns are in a collection called 2022 SAL in my PayHip store, where the coupon will also work for you. The actual knitting and crocheting begins Monday, July 25, 10:00 am PDT and will go through August 25, 2022, at the end of the day (also PDT).

We have quite a few new designers this year, and I am hoping to find more baby patterns to make for Amelia. I hope you will play along with us and tell your friends! We were really excited to be able to do this for a third year, and hope that other designers will join us next time.

On to my actual work in progress. Here are Yasmina's mittens so far. I am trying to get them off my needles before Monday, so I can cast on and have fun with the SAL. I'm not that far from finishing, and I have knit night tomorrow, so I hope to have finished photos for you next week. The cabling on these pulls in so tightly, and between that and her extraordinarily long hands, it makes these look like something out of a house of mirrors, but I promise they fit her well.

Since we have been scouring the girls' room and moving furniture in the kids' area downstairs, we have not done a lot of reading in Chronicles of Avonlea. I'm more than halfway through X Saves the World, though, and I think that some of the criticisms he has leveled against other generations are starting to show themselves in ours, but in slightly different ways. He is a precise and funny writer, and I appreciate the references he makes and the clever imagery he uses. (There is vulgarity and profanity in the book, however).

Linking to Unraveled Wednesday.

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Labels: Around the World Stitch Along, Books, Design, Governor Inslee Needs a Frozen Fish to the Forehead, Homemaking, Knitting, WIP, Yarn Along

// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 9:18 AM