Linky Wednesday - the one where it is all new and sparkly

My reading last week went to plan, but quicker, so after finished Taco (Object Lessons) I moved on to my next NetGalley review book Isn’t It Nice We Both Hate the Same Things by Jessica Seaborn.

It's great so far. People getting lost (and presumably found later, although that's the story) are my favourite kind of book.

After this I've got a bit of a gap in review books, and I have ten books that I brought over when I switched from Kindle to Kobo, so I'm going to start clearing them off the bottom of the metaphorical stack. I'll decide which I read when I get there, but it will probably be Horse by Geraldine Brooks.

I mentioned last week that I got a NetGalley copy of The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland by Rachael Herron. I started that this week and it's an absolute delight. Witchy families? Building oneself up after it all goes wrong? Leaving? Yes please to all of these.

In knitting I started Luminos Tee:

Those two triangles are the sides. it's got a very interesting construction.

It's going well, but slowed down by the fact that on Tuesday evening the first clue for Delectable Collectible Socks pattern by Stephen West dropped. No major spoilers, since it's a mystery knit-a-long, but you can just see the beginning of the cuffs

So now I'm knitting two things, but that is fine since the Tee is simple enough to knit out in public.

All of this reading and planning and knitting has rather slowed down the spinning.

I've plied up two skeins, and I think I've got enough singles left to do another three. I'll just keep plying away on this when I have time. It's looking like a quiet weekend (for a nice change) so I may make some progress then.

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 on BlueSky as Sharondblk.

I'm joining in with Kat from As Kat Knits for Unravelled Wednesday, Kat from the Bookdate for It's Monday, What Are You Reading and Sam from Taking on a World of Words for WWW Wednesday where we talk about what we are currently reading, what we have just finished and what we are going to read next.

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.

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...

Linky Wednesday - the one with the pause

In meditation it's said that the pause between the in breath and the out breath is a gap, a space to rest. Well, I'm in that in-between space for reading, listening and knitting. This is a random photo of a highlight of my week - I filled up my lolly jar. These are just supermarket party mix. During the lockdowns, we sources a great pick-and-mix delivery service, but at some point they started sending from the UK, which is a bit silly. Rachey messaged me a new one she found, and I impulsed purchased a kilo of mixed lollies, and then she sent me a link to the biggest lolly shop in Melbourne, which also delivers sweets by the kilogram, so i think I'm sorted for the rest of the year! In reading I've just finished The Beckoning Lady by Margery Allingham . It's the second last book in the Summer of Mystery, and I have to admit, having now read nine Margery Allingham books, that they are OK. I wouldn't have read them if they were not connected to this club, but on...

What I made, by Sharon

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