I knit Kris' socks, and they micro striped! This pattern is 60 stitches, 4x1 twisted ribbing I wasn't expecting that, based on the yarn in the ball - I never saw it in the hank, but I still wouldn't have predicted it. I was pretty excited to knit Monkey socks (64 stitch lace pattern) with the leftovers. I had an image of how the stripes would bend with the pattern. It looked very nice in my imagination and plans. When I started knitting I very quickly realised that this was pooling, rather than striping. The pooling is quite funny - Leon describes it a pink sock from another dimension superimposing itself on a striped sock from our dimension. The bright pink doesn't go all the way around,a nd they are mutchy poolier. They look a lot better now they are done and I love them! And I get to be matchy matchy with Kris, so double bonus. I also had the fun of knitting Monkeys again - first time since 2010, and it is such a fun, easy effective sock pattern.
And I'm still knitting socks: Nearly done! They are Cookie A's Monkey socks , which went viral in 2006. I feel very retro. In reading I am a bit more current, having just finished a NetGalley review copy of The Thinning by Inga Simpson . A very moving, lyrical, dystopian climate change thriller, set in New South Wales near Parkes. Very evocative and scary (the climate change stuff, not the thriller aspects of this book). Now I'm reading No Hard Feelings by Genevieve Novak which is glorious book about a hot mess 20 something, who is doing her best. I love this genre of hot mess millennium women trying to grow up and get their acts together and I love the fact that it is set in Melbourne. And the main character doesn't just catch the but, she catches the 246 bus. that's my bus! Lot's of authors who set their books in Melbourne have trams as the only form of public transport, but she has trains and busses too. I'm feeling quite provincial! It's well