Semi-Book Review (don't want to spoil the ending)

Happy Monday to all!!

I finished The Friday Night Knitting Club and let me tell you, I was a little disappointed in the ending. For those of you who have not read it, I will not tell you what happens, only that I think it was not the best way to end what was, up until that point, a delightful book. I enjoyed the characters and how they integrated knitting into their lives, and it was a quick and easy read, but...I did not like the ending. It was almost as if the Kate Jacobs (the author) didn't know where else to go with it so she just...oh, yeah, I'm not going to say. So, read it and then you decide. That's all I'm going to say.

Oh, and say good bye to my Monkey Socks...I don't have enough yarn to finish, unless someone out there has a part of a skein left of Lion Brand Magic Stripe in Jelly Bean that they want to donate (or trade???) to my socks? I need to finish the foot. I looked at the store where I bought my original skeins of Magic Stripe and they were all out of the jelly bean, and clearance pricing on the blue color I had used already.

But never fear, my creative gene kicked in late yesterday, or was that Saturday?, and I've got something else (or two, or three, or four) [projects] up my sleeve.

Hope all those hubby's out there had a great Father's Day yesterday, too. (Where would we be without them?) :)

Up to My Ears In Books...

I decided to change my colors today. What do you think? I like it, but it may change tomorrow, who knows?! Sometimes change is good, don't you think?

On another note, my local library has decided to honor all of my book requests this week.

Let's see, first I picked up The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. So far it's a pretty good read, but I must be getting old, the font is so small...

Second, my request for Charmed Knits, Projects for fans of Harry Potter by Alison Hansel came in yesterday and I spent last night looking through it. There are definitely some patterns I'm going to try in there, when I get the time. So many patterns, not enough time, right? Then as I'm reading the back cover, I noticed that the author, Alison Hansel is the writer of the blue blog -- I didn't know that and I had recently found her blog via somewhere (can't remember). But go by and check it out.

Thirdly, I found 100 Afghans to Knit and Crochet by Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss. It's okay, more crochet than knit, but it shows some interesting patterns.

Fourth, 100 Knitting Projects by Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss. Again, lots and lots of projects and a few that I might actually do, given the time (see #2).

I also finished Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers from my summer reading list. It was okay, might be a good read out loud type of book, but (and I can't believe I'm going to say this) but I like the movie better. I'll probably read more books than I put on the list, but that's what always happens, something else that intrigues me comes up.

So, I think I'll be busy the next few days perusing these book selections, trying to finish the monkey sock, the cable and rib sock and then I got a request for summer hats from a friend who wears anything I knit her. I can probably find something in these to take with me on vacation, too. Normally I'd give you a link to where you could buy the books, but you all know how to do that, and I don't have time this morning, off to swimming lessons with the munchkins, well they get to swim, I don't.

Edited: I also changed the font per beth's comment. I think this works better!

Summer Reading

There's been a lot of writing going on out there in blogland about summer knitting to-do lists and whatnot, how about some summer reading lists?
I can recommend what's on my list (see sidebar) and how about a few additional (I'm going to try and read these too).

Listed in no particular order:

• Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
• all previous six Harry Potter books
• the DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
• More Sensational Knitted Socks by Charlene Schurch (I know a knitting book, but I like to read them before I plan any projects)
• Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis

I'll probably have to add more later when my brain clears up in the morning.

Feel free to add any recommendations.

Oh, and by the way, I did turn the heel (why do I always spell hell when I try to write heel?) on the cable and rib sock(the one in the middle of the pictures) and am doing the gusset. I'll try them on again when I get a little further into the instep and see if they're still too tight (I'm hoping it was just because of the dp's and I didn't want to loose any stitches off the ends).