It's Wednesday again, and I'm participating in the weekly Yarn Along over with Ginny at Small Things. It's getting close to the end of the year, and I'm pouring on the burn with my last book.
Nicholas and Alexandra is an amazing book; I've read it before but not this year. Continuing with my "Russian winter", I'm reading the biography of the last Tsar of Russia and his wife, who were deposed when the country moved over to communism and became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. I started reading it on Sunday and I am on page 310 right now, of 532. Two hundred and twenty-two pages to go, and three days. I can do it.
The socks are Jaywalkers by Grumperina, a sock that pretty much everyone in the knitting community tries. It is a quicker work than I am giving it credit for; I knit much slower when I knit in pattern. It's one round of pattern, then one round of plain stockinette, and I'm sure a speedier knitter would be a lot further along than I. I'm also really not as crazy about the yarn as I thought I was when I bought it -- it's Noro Kureyon Sock, and it's thinner and coarser than Silk Garden Sock. Beautiful colors though.
What are you reading or knitting?
Good luck with the book and the socks. I'm not a big fan of the Noro sock either. But the Jaywalkers are great and I'm going to be casting on my second pair later today or maybe tomorrow.
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Beautiful sock yarn!! I have not done that sock pattern...yet :)
ReplyDeleteLove the yarn, thanks for sharing!
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