Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRM - Languishing in the doldrums

It's been a week! I've still got hives, and apparently all the allergists are over-run, so now I'm just hoping they resolve by themselves. Tarragon has something weird going on with his eye and skin - we took him to the vet yesterday, but he freaked out and they couldn't actually do anything. Today we gave him gabopentin, but that wasn't enough. The vet had to sedate him and now he is back home, wobbling around the house, yowling and falling over. He's fine, just needs some ear drops and a good nap. Here he is on the tram, looking not pleased with the situation.

The knitting and reading and spinning are all going well, if lacking in drama (which is probably the best way!) I'm nearly up to the ribbing on my mother's cardigan - I'm going to steek it, which is why it looks like a jumper.

I'm up to the plying part of my spinning project, and I'm most pleased with how it is coming together.

I've been listening to The Kennedy Curse, by James Patterson, which is an interesting history of the Kennedy family, although it seems to me that a great deal of the curse is "more money than sense".

Just this week Audible introduced Audible Plus in Australia, so any recommendations are appreciated. I've already found a couple of books that were on my wish list.

I read The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGeachin which was a very good mystery, and then I started Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin. It's about a hapless young women who is beset by major anxiety and worries a lot. I'm kind of enjoying it, but it's also a little bit too much like being in my head! Hopefully things will improve for our lead character.

And that's my week in reading and knitting. To read my all my book reviews, and to see everything I knit, you can find me on Ravelry as Sharondoubleknit and on GoodReads as Sharondblk.

I'm joining in with Kat from As Kat Knits for Unravelled Wednesday and Kat from the Bookdate for It's Monday, What Are You Reading. Thanks Kat and Kat for hosting these linkups.

Geogradiant MKAL Part 1 - that was unexpected (spoilers)

Stephen West released the first MKAL clue on Thursday night. I started knitting it without looking at spoilers. When I got up on Friday he had sent through an "alternative" clue one. I then went and had a look at the spoiler thread to try to work out what was going on. Which was that some people thought the pattern looked like a "German hate symbol". I knit on anyway, since I was half-way through. Then he took down the original clue, replacing it with a mitred square in garter stitch. The Ravelry forums and Instagram are a complete shit-show, even though Rav is being moderated. It's been a bit disheartening, having something that is usually quite light and fun weighed down with all this. I admire Stephen's quick and sensitive response to this drama. I also feel that anything can look like anything if you squint. To me this looks like a Celtic knot. I think mine is pretty, and I'll knit on through all crises.

Linky Wednesday - the one with the drama

The drama about the Stephen West MKAL continues, and I can't be bothered with it. It's meant to be a fun, interesting, communal knit and and that's not what this year has turned in to. Stephen has done his best in a difficult situation, but I'm just not feeling it. Meanwhile, Israel is at war, and we (as a country) are going to vote "no" on a referendum that asks for basic consideration for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders. So yeah, lots of turmoil here. It's very tiring. I'm knitting a sock and considering what happens next. Luckily the reading was dramatic in a good way. I'm reading a NetGalley review copy of Last Summer at the Lake House and it's great. Super dramatic family drama about three sisters who loose their father unexpectedly and then find out that the family has secrets. I 've nearly finished it and I don't know what I'm going to read next. I've got a bit of a break between review books, so maybe Sta

Mussleburgh musings

I made a Mussleburgh hat earlier in the year, and even though I thought I was following the directions exactly it did not come out quite right. It was a little bit loose. My head is 51 cm, my gauge was 7 stitches, so according to the pattern I knit the right size. It's also a little bit shorter than I would like it. Too long for a beanie, too short for a good turn-up. I couldn't work out why. I still wore it, but it was not quite right. When I decided to knit one for Elise I knew I wanted to make it longer, and tighter. After I finished Elise's (with 24 fewer stitches) I realised something about mine: Now, this is a knit tube. I know how to knit tubes. When I make sleeves or socks, they don't balloon out in the middle. So I decided to reblock it. The instructions actually specifically say to fold it inside each other after blocking, but I probably folded it and dried it on my head, because that's how I block my hats. Not this time: Now it's longer and thinner

What I made, by Sharon

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