Hello and Good Morning!
Posting a bit later than usual because I decided to cook breakfast this morning. I was hungry and we were both craving French toast. And bacon. Now I'm stuffed. The dishes still need to be done, but the first load of wash is in the machine (2 more to go).
Mid-week, Hump Day, or as we call it, Unraveled Wednesday. Time to link up with Kat and her Merry Band of Unravelers to talk making and reading. I love Wednesdays and catching up with what everyone is making and to add to my TBR ever expanding list.
This past week saw me making some progress on Semplice!
I'm a quarter of the way through the last pattern section (11 out of 44 rows completed). The pattern has an additional 4 stitches added every other row, so it is growing steadily. Obviously this will need to be strongly blocked once finished. I looked at my notes and I started this on August 8, 2024. It won't be finished by Friday, but hopefully before the end of August. When I was knitting a row yesterday afternoon, Fletch walked by and said "you are really making progress on that!" I said, I hope so, I've been working on it for a year! LOL
My SKYP sock looks the same, but really 10 or more rows were added. Not yet at the heel flap, but soon!
Reading slowed a bit...other things had my attention. I did finish Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis. When I first started this book I was enjoying it very much, but as I continued it just became over-long and at times tedious. Interesting, but it could have/should have been shorter.
Fletch and I are in the midst of Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle the John Muir Trail by Joan Griffin. This has been billed as a cross between "Wild" and "A Walk in the Woods." We are enjoying it. The writing is ok - nothing fabulous, but it is an interesting story (although a bit wordy in places).
We now have three eggplants on our plant on the patio! I'm hoping they will get a bit larger. Fletch mentioned that our cucumber plants have some kind of mold on them...or something...and he didn't think we would get any cukes. But when he went out to water the garden last night, he came back with this:
At least we'll have one!
Time to check the washer and see if I can start another load. I'll be using the dryer unfortunately. It is overcast (I think from the Canadian wildfires) and a bit humid/damp outside. Then I will fix another cup of coffee and clean up the kitchen from breakfast.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
That shawl is going to be beautiful. When I am not cutting fabric, I am doing some monogamous knitting on my sweater sleeve. Just a few inches to a finish.
ReplyDeleteIt was SO smoky in our area last night due to the wildfires, I literally thought maybe there was a building in town in flames. And now I want French toast and bacon. Thanks a lot, Vera. LOL
ReplyDeleteI have been hungry for French toast and bacon for a while and now I really want some! I'll be looking forward to seeing your Semplice when it's finished and blocked and your sock is coming along nicely. Let me know if you need cucumbers; we probably have an abundance of them (assuming ours haven't succumbed to mold).
ReplyDeleteFrench toast sounds like an amazing way to start the day. Would you like to come make breakfast for me? ;-) I think you really must be making progress on your shawl if Fletch noticed (and if he's anything like my husband, meaning usually oblivious to what I'm making).
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