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Yarn-along: the one where everything is half finished

Welcome to Wednesday, and on Wednesday's I do Yarnalong with Ginny. Pop over to her blog to check out what everyone else is knitting and reading today.

 This week I'm about half way through knitting my Cria. Well, I hope I'm half way, because I've used up half the yarn! I'm very much enjoying this knit, I just hope it fits when it's done. I'm reading All that I Am by Anna Funder - I'm about half way through. I'm enjoying it but not as much as I expected to, based on her other book Stasiland, which I couldn't put down. All that I am is written from three different points of view and is in three different time periods - between the world wards, during WWII and in modern day Sydney. It jumps around a little too much for my liking. Because I'm now reading a World War II novel I've taken a break from listening to War and Remembrance, just as I got half way through. I needed something lighter, so I'm listening to the eigth Discworld novel, Guards Guards, which I am precisely half way through. So there we are, halfway through the week and halfway through all the things!
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  1. Donna24 July, 2014

    Halfway is progress and that is good! Happy knitting :-)

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  2. Alisa24 July, 2014

    beautiful sweater!

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  3. Anonymous24 July, 2014

    Love that color! Hurray for the halfway milestone!

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  4. sally25 July, 2014

    Hello

    Beautiful knitting and I hope you have enough yarn to finish!
    I love the Discworld books!
    Wishing you a good weekend.

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