Unraveled Wednesday
I have been enjoying mindless knitting this summer, possibly because I'm working to improve my sewing skills -- and that is no easy task!
I finished a Hitchhiker made from a series of very-mini skeins. I haven't blocked it yet, but it still looks fine. I like the crazy colors, but I'd hesitate before giving this as a gift!
And I immediately started a Find Your Fade. The yarn in Fresh From the Cauldron Freyr Sock (colorway: A Rose by Any Other Name).
I haven't had much time for social knitting, but I did have lunch and knitting with my friend Marsha. She is so photogenic it's hard to be her friend!
I interrupted my reading when an ebook came through on my Kindle: Fascism by Madeleine Albright, which Marsha recommended. It's a pithy history of fascism, and I'm sure it links the past to the present -- I'm just not that far yet.
Scary fact: The term "drain the swamp" comes from Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini.
I'm linking up with Kat today for Unraveled Wednesday.
VEry fun scarf. This is the second Hitchiker I've seen today so that says I have to start one NOW!
ReplyDeleteThe Hitchhiker is gorgeous! History tends to repeat itself, especially when people are complacent.
ReplyDeleteLove your Hitchhiker and your Fade is going to be beautiful too. I agree with Nancy, history does tend to repeat itself. Can we never learn???
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your Hitchhiker and think the colors are fabulous! (And now I want to knit one like it with mini-skeins!)
ReplyDeleteI always love the happy colors you knit with! The Hitchhiker is fabulous -- I really must knit one someday. (And yeah. That history. Round and round and round. . . )
ReplyDeleteA Rose by any other name is perfect. I love the colorway
ReplyDeleteLove the shawl!! I recently watched a show on Fascism and heard that phrase, too. Fascism is an insidious ideology that so easily sucks many different people into its mire....
ReplyDeleteThe mini-skein Hitchhiker is gorgeous! I have had that book on my read list for some time now, I think I need to move it up in my queue and do that!
ReplyDeleteI love the hitchhiker and the new cast on as well. You will just have to find the right recipient or keep them for yourselves. A pop of pastel color is just the thing in February and March. Um- and yes, I read somewhere that quote came from Mussolini. Scary is right.
ReplyDeleteLove that Hitchhiker! I really do need to try that one.
ReplyDeleteYour Hitchhiker is fabulous!!! How fun is that?
ReplyDeleteLovely knitting and what a sweet photo of your friend!
ReplyDeleteLovely knitting, beautifully done. Nice to catch up with your friend too. Cx
ReplyDeleteYour friend is indeed beautiful and if she is a friend of your she is beautiful on the inside too as you are!
ReplyDeleteIt's indeed great to have a good friend who enjoys a lot of the things we enjoy. Your friend is a beautiful lady!! The knitting look lovely! Have a great weekend!
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