It has been a slow week for making this week. But!! I am on my second sleeve and happy to have this easy to pick up and put down project right now. But it is just all so much of a grey blob, isn’t it? I thought I’d share the ribbon I found to cover the steeks… I love it! Scissors ribbon, FTW! I think I am going to order this contraption and give a needle-felted steek a go. Stay tuned!
The other bits of making I have been doing is a little bit of stitching every day… and I have a couple of snowmen to show for it! I am really enjoying getting back to this craft and I am LOVING my Ottlite! It is exactly what I needed!
It has also been a slow week for reading with just one finish. But I do have one brilliant short audio story to share as well!
First up, my finish this week… so. darned. good!
The Searcher by Tana French
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I loved this slowly unfolding story so much! I loved Cal (and I hope this is the not the last we will hear of him) I loved Trey and ‘his’ determination to find the truth. This is a “settle in” novel that you might feel has a slow pace, but that pace is vital to allowing us to get to know the *all* the characters, including the setting itself. I did not know what a rook was, thank you Google for the assistance! The character development is just brilliant and the ending was so unexpected. If you are looking for an engaging story, this is it! I highly recommend!
The other very good “finish” this week was this week’s episode of LeVar Burton Reads… it was a riveting listen of a brilliant and moving short story by Louise Erdrich. It was so good! If you don’t normally get LeVar’s weekly podcast… this is an episode you might want to tune into! (4-stars, and the narrator is the best!)
Finally, thank you for all your input into Pressed Flowers (and for remembering that Kym had knit one!) I am pondering colors and will be adding this to my fall knitting list! Yay!
That is all I have for today! What about you? What is capturing your attention this week?
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That is a very nice gray blob and the scissors ribbon is the best! I really like your snowmen – they are the perfect things to stitch during these 95 degree plus days! I didn’t know LeVar Burton had a podcast, but I will definitely check out Reading Rainbow for adults.
That scissor ribbon! I love it!! Your snowmen are adorable and making me want to cross-stitch. That gray linen looks like it’s really hard to stitch on, but your little x’s look beautiful 🙂
I loved The Searcher! I agree – I hope we get to spend more time with Cal. But I’m still wanting to revisit the Ivy House from The Witch Elm, too!!
Love the Scissor Ribbon – perfect!! And that looks like an interesting felting tool as well. Your snowmen are adorable Kat and as Bonny said, perfect stitching during another heat wave! I have never read anything by Tanya French…I may need to remedy that. Thanks for link to the LaVer Burton book audio.
That ribbon is perfection! I have one of those needle felting tools but have not used it yet, though I have pondered it for a felted steek, particularly as I’m not keen on using my sewing machine on a knit again now that I’m more interested in sewing (I don’t want to mess up the machine).
Love your snowmen!
LeVar Burton is so great! 🙂
And your snowmen are just adorable. It’s so steamy-hot here right now that knitting with wool seems so . . . weird . . . but I know it won’t be long and we’ll be wearing it again. Your ribbon is perfect.
I have to admit gray is one of my all time favorite colors, it is such a soothing hue to gaze at and I feel so very calm. Your snowmen (snow people??) are looking mighty fine.
I love the texture of your gray blob! I really have to get back to stitching… those snowmen are adorable!
Love your scissor ribbon! <3 <3 <3
I love Tana French‘s books! (Except The Witching tree; give that one a miss.) Your steeling ribbon is perfect!
The scissor ribbon is just right for the steek. Keep us posted on how that goes. You are one brave knitter. Like Karen, I really like gray. Thanks for the tip on LaVar Burton. My kids loved Reading Rainbow.
oh boy, my cross-stitch is SO neglected 😉 those snowmen are maybe just the thing to pull me back and temps hover well above the feels like 100 degree mark….
Cute cute ribbon for those daring to steek! I admire you all. The concept makes so much sense ..but frightens me. Ill pass your book like to my daughter.
Your snowmen are darling
Picking up that Tana French.