Wednesday, July 06, 2016

yarn along: making




I received the lovely first edition of the journal Making in the mail last week and eagerly cast on a Violet Cap for myself.  It will be two colors instead of the single color called for, but I have two skeins of Fibre Company Canopy Fingering in such beautiful colors (one part of a skein left from my Sugared Violets shawl) that I decided to make the brim in the lavender and the body of the cap in the soft green.  I continue to work on a Starshower cowl as well; it is a soothing knit, quite repetitive.  

I finished The Boys in the Boat and loved it.  It was so interesting; before reading it, I knew very little about the Berlin 1936 Olympics and now have had another view of history as Europe and the USA were going into WWII. Since then, I've enjoyed picking up The Little White Horse  by Elizabeth Goudge, and continuing to read The Chestnut King and For the Children's Sake.  

Joining up with Yarn Along at Ginny's blog this morning.  Have you ever read anything by Elizabeth Goudge?  This is my second time to read a book by her and I think her writing style is so interesting.  

8 comments:

  1. thank you for adding the link to Making, I have never heard of it before.

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  2. glad you got making and then you got making something from making. Having a wee bit of fun playing with words today!!

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  3. Your color choices for the Violet Cap are lovely ... and thanks for reminding me that I have to get a copy of that magazine!

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  4. Making arrived in my mailbox yesterday. I am very excited to start making something from it! Those are such lovely colors for your hat. I thoroughly enjoyed The Little White Horse. The Rosemary Tree by Elizabeth Goudge is on my list to read, but it will be a while before I get to read it.

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  5. I've read a couple of Elizabeth Goudge. I absolutely loved The Little White Horse, and also Linnets and Valerians, but some of her books written for adults I'm not as much of a fan. Her love of scenery and background and mood, which I think is tamped down a bit out of necessity in the children's books, is quite a bit more unfettered in her books for adults and I'm not always the biggest fan of that style. I also don't like making character judgment calls based on atmosphere. :-)

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  6. I've read a couple of Elizabeth Goudge. I absolutely loved The Little White Horse, and also Linnets and Valerians, but some of her books written for adults I'm not as much of a fan. Her love of scenery and background and mood, which I think is tamped down a bit out of necessity in the children's books, is quite a bit more unfettered in her books for adults and I'm not always the biggest fan of that style. I also don't like making character judgment calls based on atmosphere. :-)

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  7. I haven't read any E. Goudge but her writing sounds interesting! I love your knitting, such perfect projects and colours!!

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  8. Wow! I LOVE the colors in your Starshower cowl. Just beautiful!

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