Greetings Unravelers! It has been a week of new starts here… yes, I have a raging case of Cast-on-itis.
So I have given in and cast on…. I started a new pair of socks, yes those socks! This is a knit is not conducive to mindless knitting… so I have not gotten far but I have moved to the “second chart” (don’t ask… but I’d have done the charting differently.) These socks are something that needs some focused attention, but that attention is not doing anything to detract from how much I like them!
My other start (that does settle in neatly into the mindless knit category) is a scrappy (and currently very portable) mitered-squares blanket. I don’t have any idea of this being done any time soon, but rather I just wanted something portable that would use up some of the scraps of yarn I have accumulated. All those that are close in gauge (so fingering/sport) will make their way into the fabric. I am loving it… really so very much.
I continue to make progress on my Hitch on the Move… but no pictures this week. I am hopeful it will be finished next week!
I do have a new introduction to make to you all… Meet Gnrico Caruso, the great great gnome-son of that famous tenor. Gnrico inherited those musical skills and you can find him serenading the other gnomes with his beautiful tenor tones! O Solo Mio is his favorite and he sings in regularly. My inspiration for Gnrico came from this pattern from the most incredible Gnome Creator and a button I got at the very first Michigan Fiber Festival I ever went to (from the Briar Rose Fibers Booth.) Lovely button but not really great on any garment… they are much too heavy but it was the perfect button for a gnome hat!
I think there needs to be a Gnome Choir, so stay tuned for more musically inspired Gnomes as the year progresses!
Stunning to think, but I have not one single book finished since last week! I know!! First, I bailed on Demon Copperhead… it was not the book for me in this space in time. Instead, I have been listening to The Postcard by Anne Berest… I will likely finish it today and it will be a book that stays with me. It is a beautifully moving story. I highly recommend. My at night book is equally good but in a very different way. I love how Christoffer Carlsson works into a mystery. His characters are so amazing… I am so loving this second book. (It will be published this fall!)
In an email I got from my local PBS station, I noted a new program is in production. It is another book based series so I have Robert Thorogood’s The Marlow Murder Club waiting in the wings! A new-to-me cozy mystery series sounds delightful!
What about you? Are you casting on anything new? Reading something amazing? Please share!
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I love that button so much, I can see why it inspired you! It’s inspired me to make some buttons š Gnrico is a talented addition to the Gnome family. Can’t wait to see your finished Hitch on the Move.
OMG – your Gnomes just keep getting better and better Kat. You are so creative and it is such fun to watch them come to life! Maybe a Gnome Christmas choir?? Your mitered corner blanket reminds me that I really should get back to making some granny squares with my sock yarn scraps. I’ve got loads of scraps to use, that’s for sure. The new Masterpiece program should be a fun one! Thanks for that heads up
Gnrico is one of your best gnomes so far! I always love how you think of every detail and personalize each and every gnome. There definitely needs to be a gnome choir. I’ve always meant to try a mitered square blanket but you know how that saying goes about good intentions. I’m casting on a new Hitchhiker today and reading Tom Lake, an Oppenheimer biography, and that same Carlsson book.
What a wonderful adaptation of the gnome pattern – a Caruso gnomeland family Chrissy Choir sounds like a fabulous idea.
Seems like thereās a world of squares out there at the moment- I wonder who else is making them and sometimes we just have to accept a book is just not the book for you/me/us and pass it in
I never knew I needed to “hear” a gnome choir, but now I know for a fact that I do!!! Love the button — so perfect for a singing gnome’s hat. So fun, Kat. š
(And there is nothing quite like a mitered square project for . . . whenever you need a little something-something.) XO
Gnrico! He’s adorable! As usual, you’ve added your own amazing touches to the pattern to give him such character. And I think he’s definitely deserving of a choir.
Gnrico is another stunning addition to your gnome family and I hope he gets some choir members eventually! Demon Copperhead was a wee too close to David Copperfield for me to really enjoy it – I already knew everything that was going to happen (more or less).
Gnrico is a wonderful addition to the gnome community. Every community needs music, right?! The Marlowe Murder Club sounds like a good cozy mystery. Funny, I have always thought I’d never knit a mitered square scrap blanket but lately I have been thinking about starting one. My bin of fingering weight yarn is full of partial skeins, odd balls, and of course new skeins. I look forward to seeing the “Hitch on the Move.”
those socks!!! holy moly! That is gorgeous and crazy knitting. Your gnome is beautiful.
Sounds like you have the perfect ‘flow’ project going on with those socks–requiring just the right amount of focus AND without that requirement being a deterrent.
I love that you have a choir forming. The creativity abounds with those sweet friends!!!
I quit a book this week, too. The Half Moon. Life’s just too short…
Happy weekend to you, Kat!
Love the idea of being serenaded by a gnome choir. The button is gorgeous and you have found a perfect use.