Unravelled Wednesday and WAYRN - The one with the KU books

Getting back from holidays, going back to work and just everyday living is very busy this week. I've got my first powerlifting competition this weekend, which is taking up both time and my emotional energy. Still, I always have time to read and knit.

I'm almost finished my Ballerina Shrug (picture from the aeroplane yesterday). I got most of the way through the cast off, and then had some yarn-barf that has taken literally hours to untangle. I think it's going to be a very cute garment. Hopefully i will get all those many ends sewn in, either on my lunch break or tomorrow evening, and be back to show you the finished, modelled garment on Friday.

I'm reading John Birmingham's The Shattered Stars, which is the second book in a trilogy. It keeps moving right along. I often find the middle volume of Birmingham's trilogies a little workman like, and at 432 pages I'm finding this a little bit of a slog, but also I want to know what happens next. it's not bad, there is just a lot of information, some of which might not be that important. Musings and thoughts and so on.The series in on Kindle Unlimited, which is always a plus.

I'm listening to Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover. It's a romance, which I had downloaded from Kindle Unlimed. Many of the KU books also come with audio, and I accidentally downloaded the audio, so I decided to listen to it. The book has two narrators, as does the audio-book, and it's a straight-up romance. it's a bit repetitive, I feel like I have been given the same pieces of information over and over again. Also, the main charachter moved to a new town and made no friends, including her house-mates, but later she gets a job in a bar and is instantly friends with everyone, so that seems a little contradictory. Still, I cannot wait to sit down, put on my headphones and find out what happens, probably while sewing in all the ends on my teeny tiny jumper.

And that's what I'm knitting and reading right now. 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.

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 ...

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 ...

Why Andrea Mowry, why? (A rant and a rather nice finished object)

As mentioned, prior to our hiking trip I suddenly, and rather randomly, decided to knit Andrea Morwy's Traveler Shell . It's basically an open fronted rectangle in a knit purl pattern. The pattern is FOURTEEN pages long. Why is the pattern 14 pages long? Because, instead of explaining the ten row repeat and then putting the shaping on top of that (e.g. decrease while continuing to knit in pattern), she writes out the entire ten row knit purl sequence every time something changes. Additionally, most of the time she starts with even number being the right side and wrong numbers being the right side,which is just plain odd. It's confusing and it's like she wants to keep you looking at the pattern for every row, rathe than following the very intuitive stitch pattern, which I had memorised after one repeat. The instructions for the band just say 'pick up x number of stitches'. No ratios, no acjnowledgement that different bits of the band have different ratios. Afte...

Kathryn T11 July, 2022
Craft and audiobooks do go well together even if the book is bit repetitive. I guess knitting is too!
Patricia in New Mexico11 July, 2022
Your shrug is coming along nicely! I so hear you about untangling yarn! Yes! I so love my Kindle Unlimited account! Ahhh…so many books, so little time.
I’m a huge audio book fan. It has so increased my reading time!
Thank you so much for sharing!
Laurel-Rain Snow12 July, 2022
Someday I might have to try an audiobook. Actually, I have tried one, but it didn't work out well. I guess one has to be doing something else while listening!
Cheriee Weichel12 July, 2022
Good luck with the shrug. I find tying the ends in one of the most satisfying parts of a project. It means it's almost done!

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