Linky Wednesday - The one with an MKAL spoiler

(There is a small Open Up Mystery Shawl spoiler at the bottom of this post, don't scroll down if you don't want to see)

I finished my second last NetGalley review book for the year Roadshow by Nikki Ervice

I loved it. Well written, thoughtful and interesting. Lots of good themes. It would make a good bookclub book, if I was a bookclub sort of person

Then, I went back to trying to read through my GoodReads TBR. I discovered that Glitterati by Oliver K. Langmead , which has been on the list since May 2022 is also on Kobo plus, so I signed up for a moth of Kobo Plus.

I am also loving this one. It's a sort of satire on rich people. I'm not usually a bit fan of satire, but this is really well done.

I found out that Kobo Plus has a whole lot of T. Kingfisher books. I've never read her, and am excited to. I'm starting with Nettle & Bone, unless anyone has another suggestion?

In knitting, I'm still working away on the Joji Mystery Shawl:

I've got a couple of hours of knitting left on clue two - it goes to a point. It's been fun knitting charted lace, which I haven't done for ages.

In between clues, I popped out a quick baby surprise jacket for charity. I just need to pop the buttons on and give it a wash and it's done. Fun!

Fun! I love this pattern. The buttons are tiny ladybugs, and I'm going to go sew them on right now.

It's been a good week all round, in both knitting and reading.

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 linking up 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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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 ...

Slowly slowly

I haven’t posted about my actual knitting for a while. This might be because not much has changed since the last time I talked about my knitting. This is the edging of my Village Sweater Wrap: The picture fails to capture how much further there is to go. I'm just past the first arm hole, so just over a third of the way through. It’s 47 stitches of relatively simple lace. I’ve been knitting it since Monday two weeks ago. It’s quite pleasant, and slowly growing but I can’t quite work out why it’s growing so slowly. One reason I know is that the first week I was knitting it during Good Beer Week, so I didn’t take it out and about with me. I knit other things, and when I’m knitting two things it makes everything feel like it takes forever. But the main reason, I think, is that this is just a slow knit for me. I love the needles I’m knitting on ( Karbonz of course) I love the yarn, I love the way the lace looks. So really, what’s the rush? I’m not going to be cold...

What I made, by Sharon

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