Wednesday, October 28, 2015

yarn along: book wrap-up


My blogging time this week has so far been taken up with Halloween costume creation instead, so it's a quick update for now.  I have been making steady progress on my Hitofude and am now knitting flat again after the ribbed section after the sleeves. 

My other crafting has included finishing up a knit raccoon tail (pictures to come), sewing bird wings (pictured above), and creating hand-stitched felt raccoon and bluebird masks.  A bunny tail and pink bunny tummy is on the docket too.   Can you see the pretty blue of the wings?  I'm feeling a little silly proud of the fact that I looked at a pinterest picture and pretty much replicated and modified them by myself- and in just one evening!  My girl was really awed by them even in their beginning stage which is all that matters to me. I wanted them to be special.  

I finished The Monster in the Hollows by Andrew Peterson and for my easy-reading I guess I'm unintentionally alternating between the Big Stone Gap series and the Wingfeather Saga because I went back to Adriana Trigiani this week even though I didn't really like the last one of hers that I read.  I'm hoping this one finds the main character a bit less self-absorbed and a little more mature.  

Wow, I also finished up Yarn Harlot by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee which I'd been reading periodically for a year now (oh that book had my dying laughing one chapter and crying the next).  And we wrapped up Sense and Sensibility on the excellent CraftLit podcast this week too!  I am listening to War of the Worlds (Classic Tales Podcast) and King Lear (ChopBard podcast). I consider Lear to be my "harder" read and I am re-re-re-reading Loving the Little Years by Rachel Jankovic.  If you have young children at home, I strongly recommend the Little Years - it encourages me every time I pick it up and I also feel like my experience is normalized and reoriented to healthy mothering and responses to my children.  The book is small and the chapters are really short but each contain a healthy dose of common sense and wisdom.  I have to admit, it's the book I keep on my bathroom counter for those desperate times that I escape the clamor for a few minutes. 

Adios for now, my friends - I will look forward to spending a little time in blogland tomorrow if I can and popping by many of your blogs!  Leave me a note so I know you stopped by!

10 comments:

  1. Rachel's book is chock full of wisdom...wish she'd written it back when my teens were littles. :)
    Well done on the wings -- have fun this weekend!

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  2. I am looking forward to seeing all the costumes, especially the raccoon tail, how fun.
    I love, love , love reading the Yarn Harlot, she makes me laugh out loud and that
    is always a good thing.
    Oh please love the little years, it's a time that goes by so quickly, I often wish my
    were all still little.

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  3. Those costumes are going to be stinking cute. Can't wait to see pictures. Your Hitofude is coming along quite nicely. You're kind of in the home stretch.

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  4. I am in the middle of a major Yarn Harlot book binge. She cracks me up. I emptied out the library of all of her books.

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  5. I can not wait to see the knitted raccoon tail! You just reminded me - I have an Adriana Trigiani book on my Kindle that I have not finished reading.

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  6. You're a busy bee! I should read Yarn Harlot, so many people have talked about it/her. Looking forward to Halloween pictures. :)

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  7. oh you are creeping closer to being done with your knit!!! Cannot wait :)

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  8. Lovely knitting! I also posted about Craftlit today - I;m a few years behind on Jane Eyre - but what a fantastic podcast!!

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  9. Yay for you!!! I am a by-the-pattern kind of crafter, so I think it is awesome that you are winging it! (Oh! Bad pun!!!) Ha! Enjoy your weekend with your beautiful girlies! *hugs* :)

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  10. Beautiful knitting! that books sounds interesting, I will add it to my future reads list :)
    Warm hugs.

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