Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - the one with the sunshine

Sunshine outside and sunshine in my heart. It's perfect weather to sit on the balcony and knit, embroider or read. I'm still working from home for another 2 weeks, so I might have a chance at lunch time. But before that, let me tell you about what I've been up to.

I'm keeping up with the Stephen West Shawlography MKAL. Last week's knitting was epic, but this week I was finished by Monday. It's a lot, with lots of interesting and fiddly details. Also,I'm currently 8 stitches over count, so I'll (presumably) have to sort that out in some way.

Because I finished the MKAL clue on Monday, yesterday I had time to knit my sOcktober knee highs. Such soothing knitting!

I've been doing some embroidery, both on my sampler and on a little Romi Hill project. Hopefully I'll be able to show you the the finished results of the Romi Hill experiment later this week.

I've started The Night of Many Endings by Melissa Payne. It's a NetGalley review book and it's meant to be heartwarming, but so far I'm not liking it. It does a lot of telling instead of showing, the characters are very two dimensional and it's obvious where the plot is going. Also, the portrayal of addiction is simplistic. After finishing The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell and False Witness Karen Slaughter in the last week I have had my standards set very high.

And that's my week in reading, knitting and embroidery. 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 joining in with Kat from As Kat Knits for Unravelled Wednesday and Kat from the Bookdate for It's Monday, What Are You Reading. Thanks Kat and Kat for hosting these linkups.

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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.

Linky Wednesday - the one with the drama

The drama about the Stephen West MKAL continues, and I can't be bothered with it. It's meant to be a fun, interesting, communal knit and and that's not what this year has turned in to. Stephen has done his best in a difficult situation, but I'm just not feeling it. Meanwhile, Israel is at war, and we (as a country) are going to vote "no" on a referendum that asks for basic consideration for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders. So yeah, lots of turmoil here. It's very tiring. I'm knitting a sock and considering what happens next. Luckily the reading was dramatic in a good way. I'm reading a NetGalley review copy of Last Summer at the Lake House and it's great. Super dramatic family drama about three sisters who loose their father unexpectedly and then find out that the family has secrets. I 've nearly finished it and I don't know what I'm going to read next. I've got a bit of a break between review books, so maybe Sta

Mussleburgh musings

I made a Mussleburgh hat earlier in the year, and even though I thought I was following the directions exactly it did not come out quite right. It was a little bit loose. My head is 51 cm, my gauge was 7 stitches, so according to the pattern I knit the right size. It's also a little bit shorter than I would like it. Too long for a beanie, too short for a good turn-up. I couldn't work out why. I still wore it, but it was not quite right. When I decided to knit one for Elise I knew I wanted to make it longer, and tighter. After I finished Elise's (with 24 fewer stitches) I realised something about mine: Now, this is a knit tube. I know how to knit tubes. When I make sleeves or socks, they don't balloon out in the middle. So I decided to reblock it. The instructions actually specifically say to fold it inside each other after blocking, but I probably folded it and dried it on my head, because that's how I block my hats. Not this time: Now it's longer and thinner

What I made, by Sharon

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