Linky Wednesday - the one where the reading is excellent.

After I finished the books I was struggling with last week (except the romance, I'll leave that for another day) I started We Once Were Giants by J.E. Fishman. It's a NetGalley review book that I requested based solely on the description and it is SO GOOD.

It's a dystopian, near future quest novel set in a world beset by climate change, pollution and their results - poor crop yields, reducing fertility and heat, so much heat. Drop and his band of friends, allies and enemies travel from what's left of Manhattan, trying to find a seed bank in Antarctica. This book is so well written and believably plotted and I cannot put it down. It's dark, but also hopeful and I'm loving it. Highly recommended, if you like this kind of thing.

I've nearly finished it, and next us in a review copy of Hold My Girl by Charlene Carr, a novel with one of my favourite tropes - accidentally swapped babies or embryos.

Leon and I are also listening to Gideon the Ninth together. We've both eye read it, but it's the sort of book that makes most sense in retrospect, and the narrator is exceptional.

In knitting the jumper continues nicely, with just a sleeve and a bit to go.

We are off to Sydney this weekend, and I'm not taking this massive, almost finished jumper. I think I'll do a bit of charity knitting and get back to it when we get back on Sunday. So close to finished though!

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. This week I'm also linking up with Sam from Taking on a World of Words to for WWW Wednesday where we talk about what we are currently reading, what we have just finished and what we are going to read next

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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