Yarn Along - sept 2015

Hey Friends!  It's been so long!!  I think sometimes I've just dried up.  I'm not taking the time to write in the mornings and that seemed to be the key before...

Joining Ginny at Small Things... and the rest today...
"~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading and I love sharing my projects and current reads here. I would love for you to join me every Wednesday to share a single photo of what you are knitting (or crocheting) and reading too! Share your photo on your blog, on Instagram (#yarnalong), or on Flickr. Leave a link below to share your photo with the rest of us! ~"

First, I'll share a bit of my looooong read.  The Daughters of Harwood House.  I started this on vacation in Michigan in July.  AND I took a couple of other books.  I think this was one of my Christmas books that just hadn't gotten a chance..so it has sand and iced tea and cookie crumbs and lake water and sweat and miles and miles on it.  But it is done and it has passed into the hands of a friend who just might read it before it snows.  It was a good book, and I did enjoy it, just short on time.  It was 954 pages, I believe.  Three stories in one.  First lays the groundwork on how the family in England landed on hard times and then each daughter has her tale of selling herself into a term of servanthood and the story unfolds for each.  I would read this again.  This will sound whimpy, but it did get heavy some nights when you are looking for a comfortable reading-in-bed position and how to prop it.

    So, after spending my summer with this book, I was strightening out a few other spots and I found a Fannie Flagg book that a friend had loaned me.  I like Fannie Flagg, but I couldn't remember if I had read this one or not... Back in my days of visiting with Nancy McIntosh at the Ripley Library, she got me onto a few Fannie Flagg books.  I was just reading a post somewhere last night about going on a Book Binge, where you find an author you like and read everything they wrote...or ripping through a series.  So now I've started Welcome To The World, Baby Girl and it's not feeling familiar to me, so I'm thinking it's a fresh read for me.
    And, after spending not-enough time figuring out where I've messed up my green vest, I've pulled out the alpaca shawl yarn and tossed that in the traveling bag.  It's just a terribly simple crescent shawl and it's mindless and I'm adding some rows of purl here and there.  I had started something else with the brown, then unraveled and started this.  I think it came off and undid itself when I wasn't looking..  There's also some cotton going into a dishcloth.  I've been making some holier cuz my mom doesn't like the regulars - says they don't dry fast and get stinky.  So I'm knitting a few rows and the edges then doing a bunch of K2T and YO along the rows to give it AIR!

 See all the strings in that green vest?  I'm not practiced with patterns, so I'm afraid to rip it back and since my lifeline got tugged, it's not the useful tool it was before.  RATS!  Maybe this weekend...I might have to skip a few hands of cards at the campground to get myself straightened back out.
THIS should have posted yesterday, but life happened and I SO want to get back in the groove of posting, so better late than never...