…Joining Ginny’s YarnAlong, sharing what I’m knitting and reading…

…Knitting…
All I can say lately when it comes to knitting is, thank goodness for youtube!! I have found it to be so incredibly helpful whenever I get stuck on a pattern and have been putting the helpful links in my Ravelry notes for each pattern so I can easily find them for future reference. I had an aha moment and realized the mistake I had made on my hat. I was able to follow the pattern correctly the second time and it’s so satisfying to watch the cable and lace pattern forming before my eyes. It’s a beautiful pattern!

…Reading…
I finished the ‘The Egg and I’ by Betty MacDonald. It’s a read that I really enjoyed. I was regularly chuckling to myself, I find her writing so funny. Here’s one section I thought was hilarious:

“We met the Swenson brothers about a week or so after we moved to the ranch, and as I watched Bob’s friendship with them and with other Indians grow, I realized why it is so much easier for a man to adjust himself himself to new surroundings and people than for a woman. Men are so much less demanding in friendship. A woman wants her friends to be perfect. She sets a pattern, usually a reasonable facsimile of herself, lays friends out on this pattern and worries and prods at any little qualities which do no coincide with her own image. She simply won’t be bothered with anything less than ninety per cent congruity, and will accept the ninety per cent only if the other ten per cent is shaping up nicely and promises accurate conformity within a short time. Friends with glaring lumps or unsmoothable rough places are cast off like ill-fitting garments, even if this means the woman has no friends at all, she seems happier than with some imperfect being for whom she would have to make allowances. 

“A man has a friend, period. He acquires this particular friend because they both like to hunt ducks. The fact that the friend discourses entirely in four letter words, very seldom washes, chews tobacco and spits at random, is drunk a good deal of the time and hates women, in no way effects the friendship. If the man notices these flaws in the perfection of his friend, he notices them casually as he does his friend’s height, the color of his eyes, the width of his shoulders; and the friendship continues at an even temperature for years and years and years.”

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How about you?
Knitting? Reading?