Greetings Dear Unravelers and Happy Wednesday!
There has been some significant “unraveling” this week as I picked out the seams on several pages from my book. Sigh. Building a Slot and Tab book is taking all my brain bandwidth. Foolishly, I thought I’d be able to just figure out a trick to add in my front and back covers… ha! So once I unpicked the seams… I got out my container of safety pins… and started pinning pages tabs and slots and began the building process. After some unpinning and repinning to get the pages in the correct order. I redrew my “stitch map” and am ready to begin again.
Picking out seams is a lot slower than unraveling knitting… just saying.
But!! I do have that first sock done and a second sock started! I am motoring down the leg and hope to get this one done yet this month!
Getting back to my daily stitching project has been a challenge… I need to rethink my time for stitching. Morning stitching with my coffee is just not “doable” in these spring leaning into summer days. I am watering plants early, filling feeders, grabbing a weed or twenty, cleaning birdbaths… I think you see where my focus is. Not sedentary, but rather active… which is not so conducive to contemplating what to stitch. I am contemplating another time during the day to sit and stitch…I have some ideas but right now those minutes are taken up with Book Making. So if I can get the book done this week…
A little update about my hearing aids… things are really going amazingly well! The cacophony of birds on my morning walk with Sherman is not quite so overwhelming! The floor creaks still are loud, perhaps because the creaks are only in a couple of spaces… so it is not an ‘often’ sound. And I have also acclimated to keyboard typing! Haha! It is just so amazing to hear all the things!
How about some reading news… I started Erik Larson’s The Demon of Unrest this week. Oh my… it is fascinating and so engaging. At night I am reading Helen Simonson’s soon to be published The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club and really enjoying it!
There you have what I am working on… what about you? What’s on your radar this week?
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I’ve unpicked so many seams in my lifetime and yes…must slower than thinking back knitting. Hoping things can be sorted out and your project can be completed. I do hope you can find a time that works to resume your daily stitching. The last from Simonson looks like it could be very funny. I’m reading “Table for Two” and enjoying it…just wish it were not short stories. Towles writing is just so, so good!
Damn spell correct…unpicking seams is MUCH slower than TINKING back knitting!
I’m glad to hear your adjustment to the hearing aids is going well! I understand the need to shift activities as well. Perhaps after lunch would be a good contemplative stitching time? It’s often a bit of a sleepy time for me, when I enjoy a cup of tea (in cold weather) or iced tea or coffee (in warm weather).
Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the Erik Larson. I’m trying to finish Kairos and then will start an ARC of the new Elizabeth Strout.
Our daily lives change to suit the patterns of the seasons so maybe enjoy the ‘industrious’ mornings and settle for ‘restful’ afternoons.
And aren’t hearing aids the best invention yet…..I’d certainly not give mine back. And the beauty is if it all gets ‘too much’ there’s the option of just taking them out for a while to enjoy a bit of peace and quiet ????
Cathy said it well, our lives adapt to different seasons and times. I hope you figure out the slot and tab sewing (I have no doubts that you will) and get your book sewed together to your liking. I wouldn’t mind reading a blog post about it because I have wondered how this was best accomplished. Your socks are looking good, and I hope your reading continues to be just as wonderful!
I’m in a similar space, thinking about morning rhythm. Once it heats up, I have zero interest in gardening. Just not a big heat/sun person. So, shifting with the season!
I’m glad your book *reading* is balancing out the hard work of book *binding* this week. And what a great audiology update…!
I am glad you are adjusting well to your hearing aids. I do think there is a way to negate the typing sound – at least on a Mac laptop. Of course I can’t remember what it is but Google could probably find it for you. I have done a little book binding but never heard of the slot and tab binding. For me, book binding is tricky. I wish you well.
I like knitting because it’s so easy to undo! I hope your sewing gets figured out to your satisfaction (and maybe learn something new, ha ha ha)!