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Yesterday, after shortly after taking this photo, I finished Silas’ blue sweater. It’s soaking now and will be ready for him when the weather turns cold. I think that’s the longest I’ve ever spent on a knitting project; this one sat in a project bag untouched for years! I’m so glad to have it finished.
My main books right now are Light from Heaven (more Mitford), and a Herman Melville Short story called Benito Cereno. The first is a sweet, easy, bedtime read that helps take my mind off stressful things. The other is a hard read that is making me feel like I’m in high school again, though we didn’t read anything this challenging in my high school literature classes. I have a list of study questions and I am doing lots of underlining in my book. Keats and Gabe are taking modern literature this year, and I have resigned myself to reading everything that they read. We should all be finished by this weekend and then the three of us can have a little book club and discuss the story before they have class on Monday. Somehow I doubt they will look forward to our book club the way I look forward to mine with my friends.
karen says
hurray for a finished sweater!! I know he will love it. I’ve got four books going at the same time, the most ever for me and I’m loving it!
Jeni B says
Oh Jeez, Herman Melville…I’m surprised there isn’t a vat of red wine in the photo, too. That’s what it would take for ME to get through Melville again…
Emily says
Melville is so not my favorite. Good for you for trying to get through it with your kids!
Kate says
I’m reading Sigrid Undset’s “Master of Hestviken” for a book club. Talk about challenging! I read it 20 years ago and really enjoyed it, but now I’m finding it difficult to find the time to reread such a long book. We’re meeting on Thursday and I’m not even half-way through. I’m tempted to look up the plot summary online as a refresher. I’m also trying to squeeze in Chesterton’s “Dumb Ox” (St. Thomas Aquinas) for another reading group.
The last thing I knitted were washcloths. My knitting has become very boring. I’m giving priority to a quilt I started for my 17yo when he was 15. It’s all put together, but I’m slogging through the simple pearl cotton quilting. My husband joked that maybe I could save the quilt for a wedding present. Very funny, buster.
Becca says
I don’t know enough about finishing projects to understand why you are soaking the sweater, or in what you’re soaking it. Yet, it’s handsome and I enjoy seeing your work. I think the book club idea with your sons is inspired. They may not admit it, but they’ll look back on it as time well spent. The others in the class will wish they were as blessed.