{"id":9911,"date":"2020-02-06T01:39:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T06:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9911"},"modified":"2020-02-06T05:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T10:55:34","slug":"unraveled-at-the-start-of-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9911","title":{"rendered":"unraveled at the start of february"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have absolutely nothing new to report on the knitting front. I still have to bind off my shawl. I would like to do that this week, so I can take it home with me to Connecticut and block it there in a place where there are doors to close against cats who like to lie on wool and pick up small things (like T pins) in their mouths. (To be fair, Corey has never actually picked up a T pin, but I imagine it&#8217;s only because I&#8217;ve never given him the opportunity.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also still carrying around the sock project in my bag that I started back before Christmas, thinking that it would certainly be done by the end of January. I did unravel a knot in the yarn last week, but that really seems like a low standard of success, unless you judge it based on the Senate, in which case I&#8217;ve won the week.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to knit up my Valentine&#8217;s Day hat before next Friday, but at this point, that seems unlikely. But who knows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a better reading week. I didn&#8217;t take <em>The Paper Magician<\/em> with me to California because it was a library book, instead grabbing Cath Crowley&#8217;s <em>Words in Deep Blue<\/em>, part of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9827\">#tbtbSanta gift<\/a> this year. It was a fantastic choice, demanding to keep being read long after I should have put it down and threatening to force me to buy a new book for the trip home. (It did not and I did not, which is good, because that was not in my budget and I don&#8217;t think I could have convinced work it was a mandatory travel expense, although&#8230;) But I did finish it on Saturday after I got back to D.C., and it was excellent, and actually worked together nicely with <em>The Paper Magician<\/em>, since it, too, highlights the magical power of words. (It&#8217;s a new year, so book reviews should resume shortly. They don&#8217;t usually fall off altogether until spring.)<\/p>\n<p>I also started listening to <em>A Fatal Grace<\/em> over the weekend. I don&#8217;t love books that change points of view every chapter, and I clearly forgot about that from the first book, but Louise Penny has such affection for her characters that I think it will be fine. And who wouldn&#8217;t want to spend Christmas in Three Pines, particularly if you could guarantee you weren&#8217;t going to be the one being murdered? (It&#8217;s probably too much to ask that you aren&#8217;t amongst the suspects; I&#8217;m hoping your own conscience will keep you from being the murderer.)<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ve also had books you loved this week and that your craft projects are moving forward faster than mine&#8230; (Check <a href=\"http:\/\/askatknits.com\/2020\/02\/05\/unraveled-wednesday-2-5-20\/\">As Kat Knits<\/a> for people who are more productive than I &#8212; and who also don&#8217;t let their phone batteries die just as they need a blog photo.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have absolutely nothing new to report on the knitting front. I still have to bind off my shawl. 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