Hello My Friends,
It's that fun day of the week - Wednesday - Hump Day - AKA Unraveled Wednesday. Let's link up with Kat and talk about what we are making and reading. Unraveled posts are filled with so much inspiration!
For my part, I am thrilled that my color block socks are finally (FINALLY) finished!! Woo-Hoo
Naturally the photo doesn't show the true colors (the yarn is the November 2024 Sock Squad yarn from The Farmer's Daughter). Cuffs and toes are actually purple. The middle part (slightly above the heel and then down the foot part way) is like a mulberry color and the pale shade is more like a grey.
I think this pair of socks took me longer to knit than any pair I have ever knit! Case in point: one sock took just over a month to knit and the other just under a month. And, this is my first knit finish for 2025. Nothing is a race and I don't have a goal set for what I want to finish, but geeze!
Nothing new has been cast on, rather my intention is to work on some things in progress (2 shawls and one cowl). We shall see how that goes!
Reading has been pleasant. I read The Garden by Nick Newman. This is a book that is difficult to review or explain. The copy I borrowed from my library has it labeled as science fiction. I would not call it sci-fi. Dystopian? Yes. The reader doesn't really know when or where this book is taking place. Climate change factors in. How old are the sisters? Where did the boy come from? What secret(s) are in the house? Some questions will never be answered, yet I found the book very enjoyable.
It has been some time since Fletch and I shared a book after dinner, but thanks to Kat we are now doing so! We are halfway through Lights on a Ground of Darkness by Ted Kooser and we are both loving it. Kooser's writing is just so darn good! In fact, this book has Fletch now interested in reading some of Kooser's poetry! I just need to remember to pull out my books so he can peruse them.
I'm currently reading a novel about Auguste Rodin and his muse and lover, Camille Claudel which I am enjoying - more about that next week.
Last night I went to bed early (tired). Before going upstairs I was complaining to Fletch that we had not heard an owl in ages. Well...Fletch told me this morning that when he climbed the stairs to go to bed last night he heard an owl in the woods behind our house! He said that owl "hooted" about 25 times while Fletch brushed his teeth! I'm sorry to have missed that (the owl, not the brushing of teeth).
Have a wonderful Wednesday!!
I am loving all your questions about The Garden as well... I had many of those same questions myself! It was a curious, curious novel! But Ted Kooser... oh yes. That book was just brilliant! (and well done you on that pair of socks!)
ReplyDeleteFantastic finish on the socks!
ReplyDeleteI'm jealous of your early bedtime; despite being tired from the time change, I've been tossing and turning when I try to fall asleep this week.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on finishing the socks!
Your socks are lovely, and even lovelier if I imagine their real colors from your description rather than the photo! I haven't had time to start that Ted Kooser book yet but am looking forward to it when John is otherwise occupied and doesn't feel the need to talk to me. I'd like to hear an owl, too; I hope your owl hoots sometime when you're around to hear it!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the sock finish! They may have taken a long time but it was worth the effort. They look great. So unique.
ReplyDeleteYay for the sock finish!!! The owl hoots are always enjoyed here, too.
ReplyDeleteLoving the socks!
ReplyDeleteGreat socks! I swear I never hear owls and Dale hears them ALL the time!
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