Unraveled Wednesday

Joining Kat and friends for Unraveled Wednesday with my most recently completed Hitchhiker, Valentime (ravelry link). It's been grey and dark here, so snow made the most logical backdrop.

It's got 53 teeth and is ~81 inches long, so it's a generous size for wrapping up in.

It's my 20th Hitchhiker (and I'm planning the next one)!

I'm quite happy with the purple stripes and the block of purple at the end. I sewed the purple heart beads I thought I wanted on the ends, but didn't like the look of them at all, so I snipped the threads and quickly removed them. They didn't add anything and I felt like they detracted from the Hitchhiker. 

I always say it, but I think this may be one of my favorites so far. (My Nervous Breakdown Hitchhiker still holds a very special place, and I just bought a couple of gray shirts so I would have something to wear it with.)

While I was wrapped up warmly in my Hitchhiker, I finished listening to Ghost Wall. It's another short novel by Sarah Moss, a new favorite author, and worthy of four stars in my opinion. While I waited quite impatiently for copies of the other Sarah Moss books I had ordered, I started Mockingbird. It's science fiction by Walter Tevis. I rarely read science fiction but I was so taken by The Queen's Gambit (both the Netflix series and the book), that I thought it was worth a gamble (and it's piqued my interest so far). The Tidal Zone finally arrived yesterday, along with Night Waking, so I dropped everything and started The Tidal Zone. Thanks to Valerie's helpful comment last week ("You must read (in this order): Night Waking, Bodies of Light, & Signs for Lost Children. They are sort of an exploration of women entering into formalized medical practice from the late 1800's."), I have three more Sarah Moss books in my reading queue and I'm excited. 

What are you making and reading and excited about this week?