Linky Wednesday - the one before Bendigo

Not that this weekend's trip to the Australian Sheep and Wool show has anything to do with this post, but I am very excited about it.

I finished A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyan a couple of days ago. It was very good, and genuinely made me tense! I've followed it up with The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth by Barbara O'Neal

Barbara O'Neil is an autorequest for me, partly because I like her writing, and partly because many of her books are locked into Kindle Unlimited, and as a Kobo reader I can't get them from there. So I started this - so far so good. Family drama, and I am here for it.

In audio I finished Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. I don't know how I got this far in my life without having read it, or seen the musical or a movie or something. The plot was quite a surprise to me! I loved it. now I'm listening to Medicus by Ruth Downie which is the first of a series of detective novels set in Roman Britain. Sam who hosts the WWW linkup recommended it. It's quite light for a book about sex worker slaves getting murdered, and was free on Audible until the end of the month.

I also don't know what I'm going to listen to or eye read next. I've got a break in the reviewing schedule, so maybe I'll try to get something from the library. I feel like some sci-fi or fantasy - recommendations welcome.

And finally in knitting, I've started my handspun hoodie. I'm pretty happy with how it's going so far:

The beginnings of the body and one arm done. I should have quite a lot of knitting time of the weekend and I'm really happy with how this is going. It feels really soft and nice.

And that's my week in reading and knitting. 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 on BlueSky as Sharondblk.

I'm joining in with Kat from As Kat Knits for Unravelled Wednesday, Kat from the Bookdate for It's Monday, What Are You Reading and 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.

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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 pause

In meditation it's said that the pause between the in breath and the out breath is a gap, a space to rest. Well, I'm in that in-between space for reading, listening and knitting. This is a random photo of a highlight of my week - I filled up my lolly jar. These are just supermarket party mix. During the lockdowns, we sources a great pick-and-mix delivery service, but at some point they started sending from the UK, which is a bit silly. Rachey messaged me a new one she found, and I impulsed purchased a kilo of mixed lollies, and then she sent me a link to the biggest lolly shop in Melbourne, which also delivers sweets by the kilogram, so i think I'm sorted for the rest of the year! In reading I've just finished The Beckoning Lady by Margery Allingham . It's the second last book in the Summer of Mystery, and I have to admit, having now read nine Margery Allingham books, that they are OK. I wouldn't have read them if they were not connected to this club, but on...

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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