I’m home from Pittsburgh and I’m off again to Wisconsin in the morning. What’s been going on in between? There’s some knitting and reading to report, plus festival news.
Travel and Festivals
I arrived back in Nashville last Monday. This was to be my first weekend home since festivals began in early August. I had a nice break of just doing normal routine housekeeping, school and resting a bit.
We had a good turnout at the Pittsburgh Creative Arts Festival. I enjoyed my time there and met with lots of my regular customers. It’s one of the great parts about doing this for so many years. There’s old and new friends to chat about knitting and catching up on what’s new in our lives.
I am off in the morning, while it’s still dark outside, for my annual trek to Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival. This has become our biggest show of the year. It’s a wonderful event! The fairgrounds are very nice and there’s always a great vibe and excitement. The forecast for Jefferson is looking very much like fall!
I have restocked the trailer, but I suspect I may be doing some re-dyeing when I get home. The weekend following the festival is my only weekend home until the end of October, so it’s now or never until next year.
Knitting
I have had some time to focus on my current knitting project, Summershine Top by Anne Hanson. I have completed most of the back. I have reached the armhole bind offs and decreases. I have to knit about 5-6 more inches and that piece will be done. I still have the front piece to knit and then the seaming and collar after that.
I am not sure what is next up when I complete this. Oh wait! I just remembered that the West Knits MKAL is coming up soon. I am not sure I’ll be knitting it this year, but there is a pretty good chance I will. That may be next project.
Reading
I finished listening/reading Beach Music by Pat Conroy and it’s an easy ***** read for me. I am planning to re-read Prince of Tides for sure and also try South of Broad at some point.
I am about 40% into Light in August by William Faulkner. I am enjoying this a lot more on this read. I don’t know why I thought I didn’t like it the first time. As a matter of fact, I am finding this book the most accessible of the four Faulkner books that I have read. I previously read, Absalom, Absalom, The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying. I would recommend Light in August as an entry to Faulkner if he is new to you.
I am planning to listen to Kim by Rudyard Kipling while I am driving tomorrow. It’s one I have been meaning to get around to, and I’ll see how that goes. I have a couple back up plans if I am not digging it.
I am also very excited to begin the new Robert Galbraith(J.K.Rowling) book in the Cormoran Strike series, The Hallmarked Man. I just adore this series. I have the Kindle and The Audible versions plus I received my hardback copy today as well. I must remark that I am disappointed in the quality of the hardback. The paper looks and smells cheap compared to all the other volumes. I own the whole series in hardback. I am looking forward to the story though, so I’ll try to overlook my annoyance at the cheap production.
One other book that I read over the travel week was Horse**** by Geraldine Brooks. I liked this quite a bit. It’s historical fiction based on the life of a thoroughbred race horse of the antebellum era in the US. It was quite fascinating really. I know, you’re thinking why do I want to read out a horse? It’s partly about the horse but of course there are many people involved in his life and that is where the most interesting stuff is fleshed out. I highly recommend it.
Okay, that’s all I have for today. Thanks, as always, for reading! Talk again soon.