I'm joining Kat and fellow Unravelers for Unraveled Wednesday. Care to join me in a rousing chorus of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Sweater"?
"A Lot" might be a stretch for this song, but the sleeves are now joined to the body and I have a couple more rows of stockinette to knit before I start knitting the antler cable yoke in earnest. It looks more like a sweater than anything I've knit in the last three decades!
In the reading department, I finished The Island of Missing Trees (it was excellent and will probably be one of my favorite books this year) and Groundskeeping (a pretty good 4-star book). I've started Remote Sympathy as a real book and am listening to Migrations as an audiobook. Both are books that I need to concentrate on so they're slow going right now, but that's okay. Sometimes it's nice to slow down and read something dense. (I believe Kym calls books like these chewy).
What are you making and reading this week?
Oh, Bonny! You're on the FUN part of the sweater now . . . where it gets more interesting and the rows get shorter and you can almost taste the finished sweater! (Well. Taste is probably not the best word choice.) I loved the The Island of Missing Trees. It is such a good book. XO
ReplyDeleteThat is absolutely looking like a sweater now! Wooo! I am eager for The Island of Missing Trees (but I am thoroughly engrossed in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss... it's a very good distraction!)
ReplyDeleteI just saw that Remote Sympathy made the Dublin Literary Awards short list! It looks very interesting!
look at that!! that is one gorgeous sweater!!!
ReplyDeleteAhhhh you are so close!! I do love that shade of blue for your sweater. This past week I slowed down my reading of Island in an attempt to make it last longer - LOL. Groundskeeping and Migrations both look interesting to me. Remote Sympathy might be a bit hard to read...
ReplyDeleteThe sweater looks great! Go you!
ReplyDeleteOnce tou've finished Migrations, look for Once There Were Wolves. I think it's a better book and I look forward to see how the author develops in the future.
That absolutely looks like a sweater! I have a feeling that it's going to start to move very quickly soon. The rows not only will get shorter, but you'll finally be in the fun cabling part!
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for The Island of Missing Trees, but I did finally finish The Arsonists' City, which I really enjoyed.
That will be a finished sweater before you know it, Bonny! And it didn't take long either. I hope you love it. I am still reading Jason Vail books like popcorn, but I am certainly going to check out your recommendations. (I used to have you as a friend on GR, but you disappeared for some reason. I really enjoyed your reviews.) And I am not knitting much. All my project options are just not as engaging as I had hoped, but I just need to get started on one. I have a bad case of "startitis" lately. Don't know what that's about.
ReplyDeleteThat's a sweater, alright! And great reading this week, too.
ReplyDeleteYou might NEED that sweater this weekend.
ReplyDeleteIt's looking so nice. That blue is going to look so pretty on you.
It is a sweater for sure. The yoke will be fun to knit. I have The Island of the Missing Trees on my to read list and am looking forward to it. I am finishing up "All She Carried" and still think it is excellent nonfiction. I am reading an older not well known, "The Summer Guest." It's certainly readable with three storylines. One is set in the Ukraine in 1880's and then another has contemporary references to other protests in the Ukraine. The jury is still out.
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