Unraveled, October 21st

Joining with Kat and friends today to talk about knitting and reading.

This is the current state of the Musselburgh Hat I started with the Cider Moon Farm yarn after I frogged the socks because the yarn wasn’t to my liking for the pattern. I deliberately got it to the round and round stage before I left on my trip so that I would have plenty of mindless knitting to work on while traveling.

While this isn’t technically unraveled, you may notice a lack of knitting needle. I made it with my knitting in tact from Boston to Istanbul, from Istanbul to Athens, and from Athens back to Istanbul. But when I went through security to go from Istanbul back to Boston, an overjealous (in my opinion) security agent took my knitting needles. Both the 16 inch one that the stitches were on and the 32 inch one I had with me as a spare. They were Addi turbos. IYKYK.

The truly ironic thing is that I barely knit on this at all while on my trip but was really looking forward to knitting and watching movies on the 10 hour flight from Istanbul to Boston. The irony. It burns.

As for reading, I am currently loving Whale Harbor by Mary Beth Keane. I have an ARC but it was published yesterday so it should be readily available for borrowing from the library. I’m only about 1/3 of the way through it but at this point I confidently recommend it.

What are you knitting and reading this week?