Well, there’s not much new to see here this week, but I do like having a moment to check in with you all mid-week, so progress or no, here I am!
Knitting: Mr. N’s Smooth Operators continue to grow, if slowly! Thanks for those of you who chimed in with your kind words on the pooling last week! I’ve put in the afterthought heel, and knit just a bit past it, as you can see. Fingers crossed I can get these done before I go to California a week (!) from today!
Reading: My evening reading remains moribund — the solution, of course, is to add another book to the pile on the nightstand. I’ve made it through the introduction of No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting, by Anne L. Macdonald. I’ve been wanting to learn more about the history of knitting in the US, and Macdonald seems to have a chapter on just about everything, from colonial knitting to the present! So I’m excited to (hopefully) make some progress on this tome soon.
Head over to the original Yarnalong post to see what others are knitting and reading this week. How’s your week going?
Updated to add: I was a bad blogger and didn’t think about the fact that the first Thursday of the month is Once Upon a Sock day! Since I just talked about my socks, I didn’t do a full Thursday post, but I wanted to give a quick shout out to my fellow first Thursday sock knitters: our newest member, Stefanie, from Wooly Cakes and Wooden Spoons, Paula at Spin a Yarn, and Maggie at Project(s) in Progess. Check out their sock posts this month, and if you’d like to join us, we write about sock knitting the first Thursday of the month!
fiber and sustenance 
Adding that book to my TBR pile!
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The socks look great! I like the way they’re pooling:)
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Thank you 🙂
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Oh, that’s a wonderful book. It’s one of the few I’ve been able to make it through via audiobook. (I’m not an auditory learner so “reading” audiobooks doesn’t usually work out for me.) I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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Oh, that’s really good to know! I’ve never really gotten into audiobooks, but always think I should give it a try, so that I could listen while knitting! Maybe I’ll see if I can get this on audio!
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Yay on making Smooth Operators! I like the pooling.
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Thanks, Stefanie! I’ve come around to it for sure as it’s grown 😀
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I used this book at part of my undergrad thesis research, I really enjoyed looking at and researching the history of my passion.
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Oh that’s fascinating! It’s awesome when you can combine passions. I’m working on finishing up my PhD in history — I’d definitely like to think that, in the future, I could do something related to the history of knitting!
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Came to you from a link from Stef. I love your cuff/sock color mix. Very nice
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So glad you stopped by — thank you so much!!
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Hey Katherine! I can’t believe I didn’t comment on these. I absolutely love the color pooling in these socks. I also wanted to let you know that we have someone new linking up next month that will need to be added to our linking party 🙂 Her name is Kat and her blog is https://felinityknits.wordpress.com/.
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Thanks Paula! And that’s awesome news! We’re going to have such a nice size group next month 😀
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Tiny even lovely sock stitches!
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Thank you 😀 😀
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