Welcome to Unraveled Wednesday. How did it get to be the last week in June? I feel like I may have missed most of the month!!
Luckily there has been no unraveling this week. There also has not been a whole lot of knitting...but I did finish one old stitching WIP (posted that yesterday) and pulled another long-forgotten sampler out of the (huge) WIP pile and am working away on this:
This is Sailor's Huswif by Darlene O'Steen (now out of print). I love Adam & Eve samplers (despite my aversion to snakes). I had stopped working on this after the row of letters, so I am making progress. It is a very long sampler though with several sections after the current one (I need to add Adam & Eve to this section and then will move on to the next). I am just going to stitch the sampler, not make it into a huswif.
I am still knitting, but my gradient shawl is taking so very long to do!! And the color changes are too slow for my taste. When I manage to take a lunch break during the work week, that is what I work on. I need to step it up as I'm anxious to get on to other things.
On the reading front, I have finished 4 books for Summer Bingo. I'm in the middle of "The Nix" right now which I am finding ok. It's not a book that I feel compelled to pick up every chance I get, so it has been going slower than I like. I have several on my Kindle that I want to get to that I think will go faster. Even though it is Summer Bingo, I don't view it as a contest. One of my biggest pleasures with the whole Summer Bingo thing is seeing what others are reading and getting recommendations (because, you know, one can never have too big a TBR list - lol).
Cheers to a happy mid-week to everyone. What are you working on and reading these days?
I love seeing your stitching! It's beautiful and I'll look forward to seeing your progress on this one. You've got the perfect approach to Summer Bingo; it would be a shame to ruin your love of reading by making it into a contest. We all enjoy reading and will be working on our ever-enlarging TBRs well after summer is over!
ReplyDeleteHave you read Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlin? I'm reading it now and it is very enjoyable. I just finished a Man Name Ove. It was good too.
ReplyDeleteKnitting on ---- socks, socks, socks AND my blanket. LOL In other words, the same old things.
Cheers to you and your stitching, knitting and reading...as Bonny sez: the most fun of summer book bingo is the READ part. That's my philosophy, too!
ReplyDeleteMy stitching, knitting, and sewing, has stalled. I just don't have the concentration to even pick it up to determine where to resume.
ReplyDeleteI think that looks like a really nice stitching piece.
ReplyDeleteMy thing with Book Bingo, I've decided, is not necessarily getting a "bingo" but rather seeing what squares get filled based on what I'm reading. So far, I haven't done any real planning, and I'm filling in squares here and there anyway. Which pleases me.
I hope the color changes infect you with joy soon. I haven't knit much since arriving home because I'm playing the big 'catch up' game around here.
ReplyDeleteSo many books! I'm jealous, as my reading is still nonexistent these days. I am hopeful that will change, however; I will never stop trying.
ReplyDeleteThat sampler is so pretty. I had to look up huswif. I thought it was a typo at first-that pattern is going for $58 on ebay btw!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove that sampler - and all the stitching. You are certainly multi-craftual :-) ALL summer reading is good and the volume of good (and bad!) recommendations we surface during these three months keeps me going for the rest of the year! I listened to The Nix ... wonder if that made a difference?
ReplyDeleteI love both your samplers. I've been drawn to things that are long and relatively thin lately.
ReplyDeleteI have The Nix from Audible, so I hope that will make for a good listen!
Reading A King Ensnared-a nice historical novel about Scotland's King James. Knitting is a smorgasbord right now! Love your new sampler!
ReplyDeleteYour samplers are wonderful! I just love samplers -- even though I've never stitched one myself. I LOVED The Nix! It was one of my favorite books last year. :-) I like Summer Book Bingo for the same reason that you pointed out -- it's great to get book recommendations from so many other readers, and I think it's a good way to challenge myself to read different types of books. XO
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