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

KNITTING:

I’m working on my second Hitchhiker!

Normally, at this time of year, there’s enough early morning (before work) light in the garden room for decent photos. This is not showing the yarn very well at all. Today’s the last day of a miserable cold wet bunch of days, though.

Obviously, I was focused on capturing colors when I took this photo… I didn’t notice the crazy amount of dog hair until I downloaded it! Shedding (a lot) is Kai’s one-and-only flaw.

Anyway, the yarn is from Olivia & Oliver Fibers that I purchased last summer at Stephen & Penelope in Amsterdam. It’s Olivia BFL, 100% Bluefaced Leicester, in a colorway called “Waitomo Caves,” and it’s so pretty — mostly greens & blues, but I’ve been running across the littlest bit of deep purple now & then.

Waitomo Glowworm Caves is a natural attraction on New Zealand’s North Island… Google it & click on images to see how it inspired this yarn!

READING:

I’m back to reading The Farmer’s Wife: My Life in Days by Helen Rebanks, after taking a break for a couple of other books, and I’m enjoying it.

The other books were Lights on a Ground of Darkness by Ted Kooser, which I loved… and it’s close by because I know I’ll be reading it again! The other was Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create by Elissa Altman, which I’ve passed on to Rusty (and his collaborator, Kate).

TRAVEL KNITTING/READING:

I have to get serious about travel knitting! Next Thursday I’ll be lounging at EWR/Newark for a few hours awaiting a connecting flight. (Trust me, I’m nervous about connecting at that airport right now… fingers & toes crossed. Thankfully, the return connection is through IAH/Houston.)

I think the book coming with me to Peru will be Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell — YES (don’t faint)! I hope to join you all for book discussion next month! It’s also available with my Spotify subscription, so I might leave the actual book behind. The other contender is The Names by Florence Knapp, and same. Decisions, decisions…

And, yes, it’s very likely that I neither knit nor read while I’m in Peru!