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~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading (though not at the same time!), and the evidence of this often shows up in my photographs. I love seeing what other people are knitting and reading as well. So, what are you knitting or crocheting right now? What are you reading? Take a photo and share it either on your blog or on Flickr. Leave a link below to share your photo with the rest of us! ~

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My Simmer Dim is coming along so quickly!  This is a great one skein project and I am really enjoying it.  I’ve been reading more than usual this week, mainly because I love the book I’m reading, So Big, by Edna Ferber.  If you like Willa Cather, then I do believe that you will like Edna Ferber.  Of course this is the first book of hers that I have read, but that is my impression thus far.

 

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Ginny

I believe that when you slow down and savor the small things, you don’t have to wish for a different life; you can discover beauty in the life you already have. {Find out more here...}

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  1. Lauren says

    January 22, 2015 at 1:06 pm

    After reading the info on So Big, I got excited & have already checked it out at the library!

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  2. Claire says

    January 22, 2015 at 9:30 am

    Hi Ginny! I just started my own knitting blog and recently shared the below post about the hat I just started! I love seeing what other people are knitting too, that yarn you are using looks gorgeous, I love the colour!

    http://flossiknitwear.tumblr.com/post/108265694893/after-plenty-of-chart-studying-and-swatching-i

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  3. Eileen says

    January 21, 2015 at 7:50 pm

    Hi Ginny, always interested in your book reviews, thanks.

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  4. TarynKaeWilson @ WoolyMossRoots says

    January 21, 2015 at 7:01 pm

    Ginny,
    That brilliant blue is just such a pretty burst of color in the middle of winter.

    Thanks for your kind comment on my blog, it meant a lot to me.

    Love,
    Taryn

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  5. SarahD says

    January 21, 2015 at 5:44 pm

    Your Simmer Dim is just lovely – gorgeous color.

    My Antonia was one of about 5 books I read in high school that I h-a-t-e-d and I have not given Willa Cather another chance since then, but seeing her name come up through various Yarn Along links I know I need to give her another try now that I’m an adult. Some books, although able to be read by young people, will not be grasped by young people. I have a feeling that is true of Willa Cather. So maybe I would like So Big too.

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  6. CathieJ says

    January 21, 2015 at 3:36 pm

    I love the color of the yarn in your shawl. That is a pretty pattern.

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  7. Jazz says

    January 21, 2015 at 11:53 am

    It’s so good to be back sharing my crocheting!!

    Thanks for hosting the link party!
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  8. Amanda says

    January 21, 2015 at 11:19 am

    I’ve bookmarked So Big for myself – thanks so much for compiling the Happy List! Its just what I needed. 🙂

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  9. Rebecca says

    January 21, 2015 at 10:40 am

    Ginny- I read So Big about 5 years ago when my brother passed it on to me after reading it as part of his coursework for his Ph.d in history (his focus was agricultural history). At that time I worked at a historic home of a late nineteenth century industrialist from Illinois. The luxurious lifestyle I read about in the diaries, letters, and seeing all the pictures of this family I felt could have been transposed into the lives of certain characters in So Big. I loved how the characters were so real that I could picture them as friends of the real people I studied at the museum. What a great book!
    I would also have to recommend for the happy reading list L.M. Montgomery’s The Story Girl and The Golden Road. I like these even better than Anne or The Blue Castle. I feel they capture the joy or childhood in the smallest of things.
    Thanks for sharing all these titles. I have added a bunch to my library queue. I am always looking for happy books. The older I get I think the more sensitive I am to the darkness in books.

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  10. Kendra @ A Sonoma Garden says

    January 21, 2015 at 10:30 am

    I loved Willa Cather when I was in my twenties, but I don’t think I’ve read her in a good 10 years. I will have to try her again this year and make sure I still love her. And I’ll have to check out So Big too!

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  11. Gretchen R says

    January 21, 2015 at 10:07 am

    I want to like Willa Cather. I really do. Once when we were driving through Nebraska, I thought it would be fun to listen to the audiotape of “O, Pioneers.” It was the most depressing 2 hours of the trip, until we finally just turned it off. I need to try again. I think I was just in a place in my life where she didn’t speak to me. I’m older and wiser now. It could be different.

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    • Ginny says

      January 21, 2015 at 10:12 am

      Well, her books aren’t particularly happy, not so much in what happens, but in the tone of her novels. I think there is a deep beauty there though. I also think they are best read, versus listened to. I tried listening to Song of the Lark on audio, and just couldn’t get into it. Eventually I just read the book and loved it. My Antonia is the favorite I think of her novels, maybe try that one?

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  12. Gillian says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:58 am

    Sometimes I do actually knit and read at the same time! I’m currently knitting an Aran coat when I’m at home and crocheting a blanket when I’m in the car (as a passenger, I hasten to add).

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  13. jennyann1126 says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:58 am

    So Big was made into a great movie with Barbara Stanwyck and Giant was also made into a wonderful movie with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor & James Dean. SO GOOD!

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  14. Kim Goodling says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:51 am

    This is such a lovely shawl. The shade of blue yarn is candy for the eyes!! I love it!

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  15. MotherOwl says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:51 am

    Blue – blue’s my favourite colour! And this variegated blue is just wonderful.
    And wow I’m the 39th to join this linkup, and I noticed the post after 17 minutes. Everybody’s just waiting for Ginny to post her Yarn Along, so that they can join. 🙂 I like that.

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  16. Joy says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:49 am

    Too bad I swore off shawls. There is no way I’d attempt another one anytime soon, so I enjoy it vicariously through you. 🙂

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  17. Elisabeth Andree says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:41 am

    Lovely knitting project you have on the needles, beautiful shade of blue!
    Hope all is well with you and your family!
    Thanks for Yarn Along!

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  18. Lisa says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:40 am

    Simmer Dim is a stunning shawl! Like Tracey, I clicked over to peek at the pattern page and am tempted to add it to my list…so many projects, so little time. 🙂 Thanks for hosting, Ginny. ~Lisa

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  19. Annie Cholewa says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:39 am

    Simmer Dim is a fabulous pattern, and in that gorgeous yarn it’s going to look stunning.

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  20. Alice in Bookland says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:37 am

    Oh, I really enjoyed So Big. I think that you would also like Giant by her. Both are great classic books. 🙂

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  21. Laura says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:37 am

    Wow, the colour of that yarn! That looks absolutely stunning, what a wonderful shade.

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  22. angelina says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:35 am

    Happy Yarn along everyone !
    I am hosting a Sarah’s Silks Giveaway $50 on my blog … pop over and enter ! 🙂
    http://nestajackson.blogspot.com/2015/01/sarahs-silks-giveaway.html

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  23. Tracey says

    January 21, 2015 at 9:32 am

    I just went and peaked at the finished Summer Dim project page and oh my goodness Ginny, it is beautiful! I am now wondering if I have time to add it to my Christmas knitting list, my list is getting a little long 😉

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