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Linky Wednesday - the one where we return to normal

 After a few fun weeks of travel, time off and craft retreats normal life has resumed. And while I would rather have free time than have to work for a living there are compensations, like earning money to pay for all those fun things! And tonight I return to Pole after a break due to injury and holidays. 

Of course, while I was doing all those fun things I was also knitting, spinning and reading.

On return from the spinning retreat I was eager to start my next project - I'm spinning up 200 grams of this gorgeous fibre as a heavy laceweight, aiming for about a thousand metres. 

I've just finished the cardigan I cast on exactly four weeks ago the Hoodie Shawl Cardigan

It didn't actually take me a month to knit, I took a pair of socks away with me as a more portable project. I will be back with blocked and modelled photos on Friday.

I have swatched for my next project - a fluffy dress. I don't swatch if it's a type of yarn I'm familiar with, but I wanted to know how this mohair held with poltulopi (unspun iceland wool) would feel. It led me into a stressful place where the stitch count might, or might not have been at gauge, as the swatch got bigger as I got further from the cast on!

In reading there have been some hits and misses. I'm listening to Dead Beat (Ninth House Trilogy, #3) by Leigh Bardugo It's the third book in the series, and it's been such a good series - it just goes from strength to strength. We've just started daylight savings, and sitting on my balcony, spinning and listening to this after work is my favourite thing to do after work.

In eye reading I finished Engineering a Love Story by Kathleen Reidy* which I didn't really like - when I'm reading a romance and I hope the couple doesn't get together it's never a good time!

Now I'm reading The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1) by John Gwynne, a Norse style fantasy, which has lots of fighting and lots of fibre details - it's noted that the belt was tablet woven, the hats are nalbinding and so on. 

Next up, presuming it comes in, is a library copy of Ann Patchett's Whistler. If I have time in between I'll read Encore Performance: An 831 Stories Romance by Leila Sales 

As usual, all books marked with an * are digital review copies, provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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 linking up 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.  

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