{"id":6313,"date":"2016-03-03T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=6313"},"modified":"2016-03-03T03:36:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T08:36:21","slug":"yarning-along-early-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=6313","title":{"rendered":"yarning along in early march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/tag\/yarn-along\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/YarnAlongButton1-003.jpg\" align=left hspace=10 vspace=15 alt=Yarn Along\"><\/a>March has arrived and with it comes Sock Madness, the annual foray I make into competitive knitting. The pattern dropped Monday evening (it was March already in Australia), but I sort of hemmed and hawed and put off starting until tonight. But now, Rudi has gone to bed (and with him Posey and Jeremiah) and I&#8217;m able to play the video showing the cast-on (a variation on one I already knew, but I didn&#8217;t realize that until I&#8217;d seen it) with only Corey to distract me. This particular sock calls for two contrasting sock yarns, so I&#8217;m hoping this pair of Ty-Dy Socks skeins will suffice.<\/p>\n<p>(Also pictured are a cup of Darjeeling tea and the last of the cookies from my birthday.)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/24832857734\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Yarning along in Early March\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1651\/24832857734_bcb04e8af1.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Yarning along in Early March\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As usual, I have several books going at once. I&#8217;ve just begun the two pictured here &#8212; <em>Connect the Stars<\/em> by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague and V.E. Schwab&#8217;s <em>A Darker Shade of Magic<\/em>. I&#8217;m only a chapter into each, so I can&#8217;t offer an opinion of any significance yet, except to say I&#8217;m going to keep reading! I&#8217;m also just a chapter into Carola Dunn&#8217;s <em>A Death at Wentwater Court<\/em>, the first Daisy Dalrymple mystery, on my phone, since while I can read a paper book and knit at the same time, it&#8217;s definitely a slower process and is not conducive to advancing to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Other books that I&#8217;m still finishing up are <em>Anne of Green Gables<\/em> on audio and Barry Svrluga&#8217;s baseball book, <em>The Grind<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\">\n<p>Joining Ginny for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/2016\/03\/yarn-along-269.html\">Yarn Along<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-knitting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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