Linky Wednesday - the one where I catch up on sleep

We've had some issues with the cats waking us up at night this week, and then last night I woke up at 3am because the weird rash I have developed on my wrists started itching. I got up, took an antihistamine and went back to sleep. This morning I called (or rather texted) in sick, and stayed in bed until lunch-time. Unsurprisingly, I feel much better now.

lounging around has given me a chance to really get into the book I started yesterday Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts the debut novel by Josie Shapiro. It's a coming of age story about a woman who runs, and the story is interspersed with chapters from a marathon she is is running. I'm a runner (not at the level of this character, but still) and the title of this book resonates to hard with me.

I'm also reading a NetGalley short story collection New Adventures in Space Opera. This collection of short stories features some of my favourite authors, including Becky Chambers, Ann Leckie and Lavie Tidhar. I don't like reading loads of short stories in a row - I get impatient with them, so I'll read one between each book, and then do the full review in one of my bulk review posts.

Next up I think I'll read one of the final full length Victoria Godard books I have remaining, The Redoubtable Pail Avramapul and then it's back to Margey Alingham and the Summer of Mystery.

I'm spending the rest of the afternoon knitting the crown of my Pressed Flowers hat. Because my gauge did not match to pattern, and the pattern only comes in one size I cast on with fewer stitches, and now I have to work out the crown for myself. I knew this was going to happen, so I bought the cardigan pattern, which I am going to knit next, and worked out the hat from that.

Pop by on Friday and I (hopefully) have a finished hat, and some other things to show you.

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. 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.

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...

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