Linky Wednesday - the one where it is all new and sparkly

My reading last week went to plan, but quicker, so after finished Taco (Object Lessons) I moved on to my next NetGalley review book Isn’t It Nice We Both Hate the Same Things by Jessica Seaborn.

It's great so far. People getting lost (and presumably found later, although that's the story) are my favourite kind of book.

After this I've got a bit of a gap in review books, and I have ten books that I brought over when I switched from Kindle to Kobo, so I'm going to start clearing them off the bottom of the metaphorical stack. I'll decide which I read when I get there, but it will probably be Horse by Geraldine Brooks.

I mentioned last week that I got a NetGalley copy of The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland by Rachael Herron. I started that this week and it's an absolute delight. Witchy families? Building oneself up after it all goes wrong? Leaving? Yes please to all of these.

In knitting I started Luminos Tee:

Those two triangles are the sides. it's got a very interesting construction.

It's going well, but slowed down by the fact that on Tuesday evening the first clue for Delectable Collectible Socks pattern by Stephen West dropped. No major spoilers, since it's a mystery knit-a-long, but you can just see the beginning of the cuffs

So now I'm knitting two things, but that is fine since the Tee is simple enough to knit out in public.

All of this reading and planning and knitting has rather slowed down the spinning.

I've plied up two skeins, and I think I've got enough singles left to do another three. I'll just keep plying away on this when I have time. It's looking like a quiet weekend (for a nice change) so I may make some progress then.

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.

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...

What I made, by Sharon

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