Skip to main content

Unravelled Wednesday and WARYM - Easing back into it

Life is returning to some semblance of normal. I've been back in the office for a week, and this week I made it to knit night! it was such a pleasure to be face to face in the pub together. Zoom is banished from my life.

I cast on a cardigan last night, at the pub (that was at the pub for trivia, not at the pub for knitting. I spend a lot of time in pubs. I'm so glad to be back) There is not a lot to show yet. Come back next week and it might look a bit more like a garment.

The embroidery is progressing, and I've just finished the second tree triangle. It is a lot of fun choosing crazy bright colours and textures. Very different from knitting, where the big decisions are all made before I start. I also didn't realise how much progress I made last week until I compared the two photos.

I'm reading a review copy of The Ballerinas and I am blown away by this book. it's written in a two timeline style, with the "past" timeline slowly revealing the reason behind certain things that are in the "current" timeline. There is an interesting plot, friendship, understandable, flawed characters all set against the background of the ballet. As a non-dancer, there is enough ballet information to be interesting, but it's not too technical. I And look at that cover! Perfection.

My listening is the same as last week. I came to the History of English podcast with 150 episodes already published, and i seem to be trying to listen to those episodes, that were originally released over nine years, is about 9 weeks!   

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.  

 

Labels:

Comments

  1. shelleyrae @ book'd out22 November, 2021

    I’ve always wanted to take part in pub trivia but can’t seem to convince anyone to join me.
    The Ballerina’s does have a pretty cover.

    Wishing you a great reading week

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Sharondoubleknit23 November, 2021

      My team is basically now my core social group. So much fun.

      Delete
  2. Marg22 November, 2021

    I was supposed to be joining a pub trivia team but it hasnt happened yet. One day

    ReplyDelete
  3. Aj @ Read All The Things!23 November, 2021

    Everybody loves pub trivia! I should go someday and see what all the hype is about.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Kathy Martin23 November, 2021

    The Ballerinas does look lovely. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Cindy23 November, 2021

    The cover is pretty! Here is my link: https://cindysbookcorner.blogspot.com/2021/11/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-8.html

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Unravelled wednesday and WAYRN - the one where I prepare

We are heading off for some camping and hiking and general R&R on Friday, so I'm currently in planning and preparing mode. Of course that mainly means deciding what to knit - I'm going to make the Old Romance cardigan by Joji Locatelli. The yarn is wound and I'm ready to go. I completed Leon's Winter Set (2023) just in time, and it's currently blocking. I'm reading Georgette Hayer's Fredrica , which I am enjoying very much. Regency romance is so sweet and, unlike current romance offerings, I know it won't suddenly tumble into gynaecological territory!  For unexplained reasons, NetGalley is offering some Georgette Heyer books at the moment - (maybe it's re-release?) and I'm taking this opportunity to read a few more of them And that's my week in knitting and reading.  To read my all my book reviews, and to see everything I knit, you can find me on Ravelry as  Sharondoublekni t and on GoodReads as  Sharondblk .  I'm joining in with Kat ...
2 comments
Read more

Yarnalong - the one with the final bit of transport

Remember how I took every form of transport known to man a fortnight ago? Well, I was missing just one thing, suburban trains. But today I got to remedy that, knitting my way to Dandenong for work. Yay? My Char jumper has been knitting up ridiculously fast. It's easy, pleasant and a well written pattern. I'm reading Rachael Herron's latest book The Ones Who Matter Most . It's a good read so far, family centered fiction, easy to read but still emotionally challenging. I'm listening to Evelyn Waugh's Men At Arms . I'm enjoying it, I didn't really know what to expect, but some of it reminds me of Catch 22, in that it catalogues the absurdities of war and bureaucracy. The narrator has the perfect upper crust English accent and I'm very pleased it's the first of a trilogy.   And that's another week of reading, knitting and catching trains everywhere for me. Do pop along to Ginny's blog to see what she and the rest of the yarnalong ...
3 comments
Read more

Slowly slowly

I haven’t posted about my actual knitting for a while. This might be because not much has changed since the last time I talked about my knitting. This is the edging of my Village Sweater Wrap:  The picture fails to capture how much further there is to go. I'm just past the first arm hole, so just over a third of the way through. It’s 47 stitches of relatively simple lace. I’ve been knitting it since Monday two weeks ago. It’s quite pleasant, and slowly growing but I can’t quite work out why it’s growing so slowly. One reason I know is that the first week I was knitting it during Good Beer Week, so I didn’t take it out and about with me. I knit other things, and when I’m knitting two things it makes everything feel like it takes forever. But the main reason, I think, is that this is just a slow knit for me. I love the needles I’m knitting on ( Karbonz of course) I love the yarn, I love the way the lace looks. So really, what’s the rush? I’m not going to be cold...
Post a Comment
Read more