I'm happy to join Kat and fellow Unravelers for Unraveled Wednesday (the last one in November!), with one sock done and the second sock, partly done.
I think I might be done with socks for a little while after I finish this pair. I keep thinking about my Hitchhiker plan and I'd like to see if it's going to work the way I'm envisioning it or not. And then there is this barely-started sweater sitting next to me. If sweaters could talk, this one might be saying, "When will it be my turn?" (Soon, sweater, soon.)
Last week I read two cozy mysteries while I waited for some holds. The first one was The Gift of the Magpie, but I found out it's really the 28th in the series. So I went back and read the first one, Murder With Peacocks. They were okay but I think two of them were enough for me. I also read Foster by Claire Keegan. It's amazing to me what Claire Keegan can pack into a short novella like Foster. Much of how I feel is encapsulated in this quote from the story:
“You don’t ever have to say anything,” he says. “Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
What are you making and reading this week?
I love striped socks . . . and those are really great striped socks, Bonny! And oh how I understand about "other projects" calling loudly to us while we're busy with other things . . . (my afghan-seaming is screaming at me most days) (I choose to ignore it for now). I have Foster on my list of things to read, and I'm thinking I need to get to it sooner than later. I love a good, tight, short story/novella. :-)
ReplyDeleteI love that colorway immensely! I am reading an 'easy' book and I love how I can pick it up and put it down and know exactly what's going on. There is value in that.
ReplyDeleteYou are just flying through the socks! I need to borrow some of your sock mojo to get Steve's second sock on the move!
ReplyDeleteAnd Claire Keegan's Foster... what a delightful feel-good story. She packs so much in so few pages.
Bonny, I feel like we've swapped bodies this week -- you're knitting socks and I'm knitting a Hitchhiker!
ReplyDeleteI think Claire Keegan really is gifted at saying so much with so little. But I get frustrated that there's not more!
What fun socks! It's interesting how the gray stripe looks different depending on the way the sock is oriented. Foster is on my Kindle waiting for me. I'm wondering if you read her book Small Things Like These? It's a great Christmas story.
ReplyDeleteThose socks are terrific, I love the stripes and how well they match! It's a constant lesson I'm trying to learn but there is so much value in the power of saying nothing.
ReplyDeleteLOVE that quote! And I love your socks - they are really good looking Bonny. I'm staying true to knitting just on two pairs of socks, but I have so many ideas floating around in my head of other things I want to knit! And...I will need to pick a project (JUST ONE) to take to TX. I think I saw that Foster is available on Hoopla - I may need to download the audio version as I really enjoyed Small Things Like These.
ReplyDeleteYou find the BEST striping yarns. That colorway is fascinating too!
ReplyDeleteI love that quote and I really look forward to reading Foster in December, once I make my way through The Books of Jacob!
ReplyDeleteThose socks are great and I love the colors!
Even though I have six books waiting for me at the library and a couple here waiting to be read, I jmust requested Foster. 89 pages? How long can that take? And it sound like a wonderful story.
ReplyDeleteI do like those socks. Self-striping socks always seem so happy to me. While I finish the knits for the kids, I'm thinking about other projects I'd like to start. Foster is on my list to read soon.
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