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 ...

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...

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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