Unravelled Wednesday and Yarn Along too

Unravelled Wednesday and Yarn Along too - happy new year

First Wednesday of the year - welcome to 2021.

This week I'm knitting a colourwork vest - the Tracery pattern. I've wanted to knit this for years, but I needed it in proper wool and I couldn't find a contrast colour that I loved. I ended up dying it myself, and I really like how it is knitting up. I'm a bit concerned, because the pattern is written flat, and I'll be knitting it in the round and steeking. I've also changed the shaping and am not making it cropped with long ribbing. I've done lots of maths, hopefully it will all work out. In any case, it's looking pretty so far.

I'm reading one non-fiction book. It's really unusual for me not to have a novel on the go, but that's the way it is today. I'm reading a NetGalley Review book of TV by Susan Bordo. It's part of the Object Lessons series, and I've read and enjoyed a few of them. This one I'm feeling a bit ambivalent about. I'm about half way through and it seems to be largely about (American) politics, and the news cycle. These are interesting things, but not what I thought I'd signed up for. Which is one of the joys of these short books.

I'm linking up with Ginny from Small things and Kat from As Kat Knits, who both host link-ups where we chat about what we are reading, knitting and crafting. Thanks for hosting.

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Unravelled wednesday and WAYRN - the one where I prepare

We are heading off for some camping and hiking and general R&R on Friday, so I'm currently in planning and preparing mode. Of course that mainly means deciding what to knit - I'm going to make the Old Romance cardigan by Joji Locatelli. The yarn is wound and I'm ready to go. I completed Leon's Winter Set (2023) just in time, and it's currently blocking. I'm reading Georgette Hayer's Fredrica , which I am enjoying very much. Regency romance is so sweet and, unlike current romance offerings, I know it won't suddenly tumble into gynaecological territory! For unexplained reasons, NetGalley is offering some Georgette Heyer books at the moment - (maybe it's re-release?) and I'm taking this opportunity to read a few more of them And that's my week in knitting and reading. To read my all my book reviews, and to see everything I knit, you can find me on Ravelry as Sharondoublekni t and on GoodReads as Sharondblk . I'm joining in with Kat ...

Yarnalong - the one with the final bit of transport

Remember how I took every form of transport known to man a fortnight ago? Well, I was missing just one thing, suburban trains. But today I got to remedy that, knitting my way to Dandenong for work. Yay? My Char jumper has been knitting up ridiculously fast. It's easy, pleasant and a well written pattern. I'm reading Rachael Herron's latest book The Ones Who Matter Most . It's a good read so far, family centered fiction, easy to read but still emotionally challenging. I'm listening to Evelyn Waugh's Men At Arms . I'm enjoying it, I didn't really know what to expect, but some of it reminds me of Catch 22, in that it catalogues the absurdities of war and bureaucracy. The narrator has the perfect upper crust English accent and I'm very pleased it's the first of a trilogy. And that's another week of reading, knitting and catching trains everywhere for me. Do pop along to Ginny's blog to see what she and the rest of the yarnalong ...

Why Andrea Mowry, why? (A rant and a rather nice finished object)

As mentioned, prior to our hiking trip I suddenly, and rather randomly, decided to knit Andrea Morwy's Traveler Shell . It's basically an open fronted rectangle in a knit purl pattern. The pattern is FOURTEEN pages long. Why is the pattern 14 pages long? Because, instead of explaining the ten row repeat and then putting the shaping on top of that (e.g. decrease while continuing to knit in pattern), she writes out the entire ten row knit purl sequence every time something changes. Additionally, most of the time she starts with even number being the right side and wrong numbers being the right side,which is just plain odd. It's confusing and it's like she wants to keep you looking at the pattern for every row, rathe than following the very intuitive stitch pattern, which I had memorised after one repeat. The instructions for the band just say 'pick up x number of stitches'. No ratios, no acjnowledgement that different bits of the band have different ratios. Afte...

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