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.

Comments

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...

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.

Unravelled Wednesday - the one where it's ordinary

This week I finished my first book for the 2025 When Are You Reading? Challenge , which was The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker , which covered the pre 1200 time period. I loved it, it's a retelling of the siege of Troy from a feminist perspective. I haven't worked out what I'm reading for the 1200-1399 time period. Suggestions are welcome. I'm currently reading Central Station by Lavie Tidhar , which is science fiction set in a future Tel-Aviv. It's good, but there are loads of characters and I'm not overly invested. Although at least I'm having no problems telling the characters apart, they are very district. I just don't overly care what happens to them. I'm listening to a NetGalley review copy of Mona Acts Out by Mischa Berlinski , which is the story of a woman unravelling. It's very different from Mischa's other books, but quite compelling. I'm not sure what's next, probably something from Kobo-Plus, perhaps Regrets...

What I made, by Sharon

Search This Blog