You ~ 

• Went back to school
• Graduated
• Became pregnant
• Had a baby(ies)
• Left your job(s)
• Started new careers
• Broke-up
• Got married
• Fell in love
• And so much more. Wow you guys have been busy too!

What a kick I got out of reading your comments. Because I want to share and, well, because I can, I chose two winners (thanks to the Random Number Generator): FujiMama and Karen. Thank you to everyone for playing along and all your congratulations.

Moon Unit - Found under a bridge and rescued by Plucky Girl on Friday. Approximately 4 weeks old.

Call Me Sweetheart - 100% Cashmere Lace

By The Light - Cashmere/Silk Lace

Elegance - Cashmere Silk Lace

Is it yarn? Honestly, I’m not sure. I’ll find out this week when I go to my very first spinning class. Going to stop while I’m ahead as I don’t want to ruin all my roving…..

Anyone up for a Plucky Knitter KAL? I sure am! Starting June 1 (hey, that’s today already!!!!) it will be all about Plucky Cowls - you know, it’s been all about the cowl ’round these parts - so let’s knit some together!

Here are the details:

KAL timeframe: June 1 - July 31.
KAL Type: Cowls
Yarns: You can use ANY of The Plucky Knitter Base Yarns….you can use existing yarns from your stash or brand new yarns you purchase from her for the KAL

Prizes: I’ll be giving away one skein of yarn per prize category plus an extra goody in each package to the winner(s) that will be chosen at the end of the KAL

There will be a thread in Ravelry entitled Plucky Cowl KAL that will be stickied for you to post links/pics of your completed cowls.You must post to this thread with your completed pics/links to pics in order to qualify for a prize.**

Prizes will be given away for the following categories:

~Most cast on and finished cowls with Plucky Yarn in 2 months
~Best Picture/Pose with finished Plucky Yarn cowl
~Best use of yarn/pattern for a cowl

After July 31st there will be some judging and some name drawing and the winners will be posted here along with your fabulous prize.

Need some help coming up with patterns?

Here are some examples of cowls and yarn choices you may want to use for the KAL, however, feel free to make a pattern up or use any cowl pattern you’d like:

Purl Cowl - lace weight
Renaissance Palm - fingering weight
Lovie Cowl - fingering weight doubled
Gloria Cowl - fingering weight
Confection - sport weight
Beech Wood - fingering, sport, DK, or worsted
Impressionist - worsted
Birthday Cowl - worsted
Aibhlinn - worsted
Celtic Cable - worsted
Tudora - worsted
Cherry Garcia - chunky/bulky
Chickadee - chunky/bulky
Luxe - chunky/bulky
Dolores Park - chunky/bulky

Edited to add: Sorry about that. Apparently the links were working. Should be all better now.

Please feel free to share with the group what projects you are going to make so we can keep a running list and update your progress on the photo thread. Really can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!

Tomorrow I’ll show you what cowl I’m working on and another little project. Oh, and, shop update later this evening - 9:00 p.m. EST.

Megsy - Merino Superwash Fingering

Lil’ Miss - BFL Superwash

One more thing…. this is a big week here at Plucky HQ. Anyone venture a guess as to what the fuss is all about? Besides, of course, the actual knitting content as of late and the beginning spinning.  

Sorry for any confusion that may have been caused, but I forgot to mention that the pattern calls for the yarn to be held double and the first row of the pattern should read: K1 *K2tog, K3, M1, K1, M1, K3, SSK*, end K1.  The PDF has been changed.

Get The Revised Copy of Pattern Here

Renaissance Cowl - Enjoy!

Mr. Plucky planted some succulents this past summer and we managed to keep them alive all winter!

Call me crazy (actually, no need. I’m fully aware that I am one peculiar, issue laden gal), but you know your UFO’s are getting antsy when the start talking to you. Yesterday, I logged into Ravelry and I got a message from my No-Purl Monkey saying “Finish me. I’m pretty.” When the knits start talking back, that’s pretty serious. So, now that the first shipment of Plucky Classics are well on their way, I am going to put the feet up and knit. That should shut the knits up - I hope.

It’s that time again. Time to give away some tangled yarn to you intrepid detanglers out there. You know who you are. Leave me a comment as to why you find detangling yarn so intriguing and I will pick a number out of a hat and send two winners each a skein of yarn to untangle and do with what you will.

Happy Tuesday!

P.S. Guess what I am dyeing up this week?

Summer of Love. I get a lot of inquiries on this colorway and am finally at a spot where I can get a quantity of it dyed up. If you have a special interest, please contact me and I can be sure to put enough aside. The bases that will be dyed in this colorway will be the 80/10/10 MCN, 100% superwash merino and the 100% merino single ply.

Words to live by, don’t you think?  

March 21, second day of Spring…. Under winter storm warning until 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. The bench on our patio was bare this morning.

This does not sit well with the humans or the canine.

On a much, much brighter note: The.Best.Cookie. It was all I could do to stop eating and snap a picture. Mr. Plucky and I went to Whole Foods and I snagged a macaroon, sadly, just one, as I was so not planning on falling in love. Went to the Whole Foods website and, sadly, there is no recipe available. Does anyone? Anyone? Have or know of a recipe for something similar?

Chocolate Chip Macaroon from Whole Foods

Oh yeah, I was giving away yarn to the person who left the 2000th comment, wasn’t I? Curious?  Becky - Congratulations! Please contact me and I will make arrangements to send you your prize.

• Pattern: Another Top Down and I’ve mixed it up a bit. Put the sleeve stitches on waste yarn and decide what to do with them once the body is finished.
• Yarn: BSA Skinny Cotton - Mallard

Can Jean and Liz419 contact me, please. I have something for you…..