A Thing Or Two We’re Doing Besides Picking Up Stitches

Welcome to our fourth-annual tour of highly, highly specific present-hunting: Our first gift-guide podcast ep of the season has landed! If you can’t wait ‘til the second installment drops next week, a rich (cough, nine-episode) backlog awaits.

erica’s things

• Agrodolce-ing all the squash.
   

• Asking whether there’s such a thing as a dreidel for Harry Styles fans.
   

• Zoom-zoom-zooming in on these Annie Morris pieces, which are stitched not painted, I repeat, stitched not painted! Best to see them in person.
   

• Trying and failing to imagine a more epic book reading. More events like this, please.

claire’s things

• Hoping we can all band together to make artichoke tea happen. (Rooibos, it’s been a good run, etc.)
   

• Understanding, intuitively, the type of person for whom this tool will be legitimately life-changing.
   

• Watching a friend use this and, after doling out the requisite amount of ribbing, conceding that I wish I’d had one during the tiny-tyke stage.
   

• Owning a proper dopp kit for the first time in a long time—and, wow, what a revelation.
   

• Clocking a top-notch (and new-to-me) Christmas-decor source. (Hot tip from Lauren S. in our Geneva!)