Unravelled Wednesday - the one where I learn something about myself

This week I read Better Days by Claire Zorn , a NetGalley review book that was interesting, well written, well paced. A solid read (with a great, if irrelevant to the plot, cover).

I realised I took the better part of a week to read an average length book. When I'm not enjoying a book I power through it to "get it done" and when I'm enjoying it well enough, I meander through it. I was also listening to a NetGalley review book We Rip the World Apart by Charlene Carr, which I wasn't enjoying. So I was more dedicated to that, and spent quite a lot of the weekend sitting and knitting and spinning and listening, rather than eye reading. I think I take the same approach to a lot of things.

I'm now listening to another NetGalley review book Mona Acts Out by Mischa Berlinski.

Then I'm going to read The Silence of the Girls for the before 1200 time period of the When am I Reading book challenge. I've set up my challenge page here and will update it as I work out what I want to read, and what I've completed..

In knitting I'm doing a super-cute slip stitch sock using left overs from my last project.

I've just turned the heel on the first sock, which isn't a bad effort since I started it on Sunday. I had to go to a three hour training session yesterday and it was in a room with 100 other people, so I had some serious knitting time. I'm not sure how I can convince them to let me do another three hour training session when I'm doing the leg of the second sock!

I've also started a new spinning project, but sometimes it's hard to find time to spin, so there will be plenty of time to tell you about that before I get through it.

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 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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