Greetings Unravelers and Happy Wednesday!
**Sorry about this, but I have no clue what happened to my published post, but it is MIA… if you are getting a second notification, that is why.**
July brings the beginning of the third quarter… and, more importantly, it means that I have done half a year of Temperature Stitching! To say I love it is an understatement… it brings me the greatest delight and I thing this will be stunning once completed and hanging on my wall! I love how I have moved into The Season of Yellows and Reds… and while I don’t love the 90’s (which are burgundy/purples) hopefully there won’t be any icy blues and chilly greens back until November! Ha!
Something else has been rattling around my head ever since Bonny shared it on her blog! Yes… Hitch on the Move has been consuming my thoughts and so I began to look to see what I might have in my stash to get it started! Imagine when I found a delightful skein that pairs beautifully with some Polwarth from Wee Chickadee that I was lucky to get from one of Cara’s destashes. I have been joyously spinning it up and have about a bobbin and a half full!
And speaking of spinning… I was divinely inspired with some Targhee in the Freshwater Pearls colorway (divinely… see what I did there, those sisters have some inspired fibers!) and I love how it turned out. It is a 3-ply fingering weight with excellent yardage (sorry, I have not weighed it yet to know.) I have no plans for it yet… I am just happy to squeeze it every so often… it is so squishy and soft!
I also am plodding along on my second Shakerag Skirt, sigh. This won’t be a 15 Day Knit but I am through the lace portion and am so close to being done with the optional necessary backside short rows! Then I will shortly begin the decreases and the mindless round and round. My hope is to have a second skirt to sashay around in this month though! So on I knit!
The reading has been good. I am back in Bath with Sully… and although I miss some characters (Miss Beryl for one!) the shenanigan’s are plenty! I am laughing and loving every bit of it. I am trying hard to slow down but it is a challenge! Ha!
I am also listening to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida which is for the Read With Us gang. I am about half way though and the writing is so good (the narration is also so perfect!)
I had two finishes… I enjoyed them but I did not love either of them (Happiness Falls and Under the Whispering Door) but 3-star books are not bad reads (I had originally given Happiness Falls 4-stars but after thinking about it for a few days, for me it was not more than a 3-star read.) The problem is I have read much better books last month that might be coloring my opinion. Book Hangover is a thing and Sully is just the thing to clear my head! Ha!
Whew… this was a wordy post… sorry about that! What about you all… what is “consuming you” this week?!
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Gorgeous fibers! I’m curious to see your Hitch on the Move as well as Bonny’s! I love my Match and Move and right now I’m bored to tears with my Hitchhiker, so…to be continued. I really like the color for your 2nd Shakerag Skirt – everything will go with it! Gasp!! I did cast on for mine, but that’s as far as I got. Now I’m thinking I might listen to our next Read With Us book rather than read with my eyes. I may wait till closer to the time though. For me, it feels as though I have entered the summer doldrums…hard to get excited about anything!
Those colours you’re spinning are divine! And the shakerag is coming on even if it feels a bit of a plod at the moment…
I’m fighting with yarn tangles but getting there with my Wingspan 😊
Oooh, the new spin is so beautiful! It’s going to go great with that purple in a shawl.
I love seeing all your stitching and cannot wait to see your plan for the finished piece!
I love the embroidery! That must be a satisfying project to watch grow. I’ve been working on my birth sampler, a hitchhiker shawl and a sweater that I do not have enough yarn for, or so I believe.
Your temperature circles are stunning! I think this is one of the best ways I’ve seen to show the temperature in stitching – illustrative and beautiful at the same time. It’s supposed to be 94 here today which I don’t love, but at least it will look lovely in your stitching.
And your spinning is perfect! I’ve only done a few triangles on the Hitch on the Move and while it’s similar to the Hitchhiker, these triangles are formed almost by magic. Your yarns are going to look gorgeous together!
I’m off to look for your review of Happiness Falls, mainly because I’m curious to see what you didn’t like so much. It bowled me over but I wonder if I just got swept along and missed some things that you caught!
I adore those temperature circles and think it will be wonderful art for your home when it’s finished. Beautiful spinning, too. I just finished Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane and I can’t stop thinking about it. SO good!
I agree! That temperature project is going to be gorgeous on your wall next year!! Wow—I didn’t realize how hot it’s been for you. We’ve been in the 80s here, and just a little at that.
I am listening to Celeste Ng’s Our Missing Hearts and reading The Many Daughters of Afong Moy with my eyeballs. At the begin with t the former and end with the latter. Really loving Afong Moy (and now need to read Jamie Ford’s Hotel….Bitter and Sweet!)
All those pinks and purples are just gorgeous.
I LOVE your temperature stitching, Kat. Of all the temperature projects I’ve seen, I think yours is my favorite. (Plus . . . it seems manageable to actually finish! Bonus!) I, too, have been thinking nonstop about a match-and-move project. I plan to do a bit of stash-diving later this afternoon even . . . XO
Oops . . . I meant Hitch on the Move . . .
What a beautiful combination of yarn and fiber for Hitch on the Move. I look forward to seeing your project come into being. Book hangover is definitely a thing. The stitching project is just fabulous.