Unraveled Wednesday: Stripe City

I’m joining Kat & the Unravelers today for Unraveled Wednesday!

KNITTING:

Can’t stop, won’t stop! The Family Temperature Blanket is getting ALL of my knitting attention these days.

The morning light is getting dimmer every day, but my phone does well with available light, so I hastily arranged all the panels on the sidewalk for a group shot. That’s my panel on the left, Rusty’s in the middle, and Kate’s underway on the right. I think I’m into December for her “April ’85 to April ’86 in the Pacific Northwest” panel. I finally took the time to learn the weaving-in method that’s most often used to trap floats in colorwork, and I love it… things are moving right along with much less dread. I get in a zone when I’m weaving in… but it often takes a while to work up the will & resolve to just.do.it. heh. Anyway, it’s so great to take care of most of that while I’m actually knitting.

READING:

Still working on The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. I’m about half-way now! Maybe I’ll squeak by in time for zooming.

LISTENING:

I don’t know exactly when, where, or why, but not long ago, Spotify served me up a song called Meeting the Master by Greta Van Fleet.

https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6jXwOrrBoutMICNxckeDNQ?utm_source=generator

It’s the kind of song that has me immediately cranking up the volume. Rock, vocals & guitar that immediately reminded me of HEART — in fact, I thought, Wow, she sounds like Ann Wilson — with a side of LED ZEPPELIN, RUSH, stadium/arena rock, hair band/glam. But modern. Turns out, it was the first single released from their newest/third album.

I was a little chuffed a couple of weeks ago when I had my “Liked Songs” playlist on while Kate & I made dinner and she was Soundhound-ing many of the songs, or asking me about them if Soundhound came up short. This was one of them. Last week, she shared another Greta Van Fleet song with me, and I said something about “her.” Kate said, I’m not so sure that’s a girl… I think it’s a guy! And sure enough, four guys — young guys — from Frankenmuth, Michigan, of all places. So, like, we’re practically neighbors! Anyway, I can’t get enough of them and thought I’d share.

Oh, and the story of the band’s name — and namesake — is pretty great, too!