Greetings Gentle Unravelers and Happy Lunar New Year!

Being a person with an overly large case of ophidiophobia… I am not certain I will be celebrating “the year of the snake” but I did not know that this year is considered “transitional” and prepares the way to the year of the dragon, which is next year! And there you have a bit of trivia to carry you into February.

My thoughts have mainly been focused on stitching… particularly my 100 Stitch Book. I am going to try some “two page spreads” this time… and my first grouping is around the Flying Geese quilt pattern. I have page one done … just simple triangles of geese flying, with some rogue out of formation “stitched” geese. And you can see my beginnings for the part two page. The loose tree and “geese” will be stitched on last.

Page One, complete… Page 2, in progress.

Also. as up can see above, Frankie has had some “stretches” of time where I have taken the cone off, thus allowing me to get back to knitting. (AND as of Tuesday, he is COLLAR FREE!!) That great “greige” blob is the almost finished body of a Bolin Cardigan! This pattern is, so far, a delight to knit. I am eager to get to the sleeves… which are “up next.” I am doing the wide sleeves, but a shorter length than the pattern calls for. I have a sweatshirt with similar sleeves that I will be using that for my guide.

Now for some Knitting Inspiration from Norah Gaughan. I saw this not once but twice this week and I cannot get it out of my head! I might even be playing around with colors as well…

The reading this week has been powerful. I finished Wright Thompson’s The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi. This is one of the best books I have ever read. Period. I listened to the author read it to me. Township 22 North, Range 4 West, Section 2, West Half… a place that I knew nothing about before I began The Barn. Now it is a place along I have not stopped thinking about since I finished it. A place  with a history that I, sadly, knew nothing about. Thompson has changed that… dramatically. If you are looking for a book that will not be an easy read but will change your life… this is that book. Thompson weaves together history in a masterful way… revealing connections that astounded me. Really… read this book!!

There you have my week. What about you? How has your January making and reading been?

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