Unravelled Wednesday - new things all around!

Everything this week is fresh and new and fun and good. Starting with the knitting, which is a pair of Rye Light Socks for Leon. It's just a simple pair of socks that were perfect for our long weekend away I love knitting with yarn I've dyed myself, it adds another layer of enjoyment to an already fun process.

I've also got some "new" yarn - I dyed up the last of the undyed sock yarn I bought in July. I can't believe I've dyed 5 kilometres of yarn, and knit all but this last 200 gram hank in the last 5 months!

I dyed it to go with the self stripping Christmas yarn Dani dyed for the Richmond Knitters Christmas party and I'm going to cast on a Sock Arms, very soon.

I'm reading a NetGalley review copy of Octavia E Butler's Kindred. They are doing a re-release of an omnibus of a number of her works, and since I had rather been planning to read her I was thrilled to be given a review copy. Kindred is about a black woman in 1976 who unwittingly time travels back to the Ante-Bellum South. I always say I don't like time-travel, but this is like The Time Travellers Wife, or Outlander so that part of it is all good. The racism of the slave south is not so good, but then neither is the casual racism of 1976 (or of now, but that's a longer conversation.)

After I finish this I'll take a break before reading Fledgling which I think is about Black vampires. Something like that.Sounds interesting. I'll certainly let you know!

I'm listening to The Survivors by Jane Harper. She's one of my favourite crime / thriller writers, and this, like her other books is narrated by Steve Shanahan, who does a fantastic job. It's set in a small town in Tasmania - I once spent a month riding around Tasmania, and I basically feel like I have been to this place. Well written, well read, and I can't wait to find out "whodunit".

So a good way to wind down for the year.

As always on a Wednesday I'm linking up with Kat from As Kat Knits, and the rest of the Unravellers. Thanks for hosting Kat.

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