~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading, and the evidence of this often shows up in my photographs. I love seeing what other people are knitting and reading as well. So, what are you knitting or crocheting right now? What are you reading? Take a photo and share it either on your blog or on Flickr. Leave a link below to share your photo with the rest of us! ~
I’m knitting another hat! Gabriel keeps his hair very short, and his head gets cold. He has several hats, but they go missing, so I decided to knit him another. I am using leftover yarn from Jonny’s arm warmers and Gabe is really happy about that. It’s kind of a grown-up colorway I think. He was very alarmed though when he saw the pink yarn I used for the provisional cast on! I assured him that it was only temporary, and I think he breathed a sigh of relief when I removed it this afternoon. I’m not following a specific pattern, just a basic ribbed hat.
I’m still reading My Antonia, so I thought I would share a couple of my kids’ favorites right now. We have The Story Blanket from the library. It’s a lovely story and it’s about knitting! The girls have requested it over and over.
Seth read the entire Redwall series
Ginny,
Just added ‘The Story Blanket’ to my list to-read. 🙂
Love,
Taryn
such fun reading and knitting going on!
The Story Blanket sounds like a great book, adding it to our list for our next library visit, thanks!
oh my gosh, i read the Redwall books when i was young and i cant wait until my children are old enough to read them are i’d read them now if i wasnt almost 30 lol . Knowing my luck they wont be into them 🙂 Very excited to see there is a cook book and will most certainly be buying it
My sister has told me to read the Redwall series – I’ve only read the first one but they sure enjoy some tasty sounding meals! I’m sure the cookbook would have some fun recipes. Have fun with it!
“The Story Blanket” sounds so interesting, I wonder if this is avilable in German..otherwise I would read it and retell the story to my kids;)
I bought that book 4 years ago, but have not read it yet…need to 🙂
I love how we can all get to a knitty point where we can knit up a ribbed hat without a pattern. Awesome left-over yarn you chose, and I can’t wait to see it.
Redwall; what an accomplishment. So cute! I just love when kids pool over cookbooks. We’re drooling over a Star Wars cookbook now – certainly a favorite Christmas gift.
Wishing you happy days ahead.
Next time we head to the library I’ll see if I can find the Story Blanket, sounds like a book we would enjoy. Your hat looks lovely 🙂
My 16yo son used that cookbook about 3 or 4 years ago and he regularly rereads the entire Redwall series. Loved the names of the recipes, we had so much fun cooking together. Brings back such great memories!
That looks like a beautiful picture book! I can see why your kids want to revisit it.
Love the yarn!
Thanks for hosting.
I do not participate often and as i read mostly swedish books i do not publish them. i long to read the books about the little house on the prairie in english though, i loved them as achild( in swedish)
thank you for your wonderful blog i read it almost every day!
I wish you lived closer so you could give me a class! I love getting reading recommendations from here, thank you!
I’m working on a hat too! Seems they are in high demand right now.:-)
Cute yarn!
Oh! We *love* the Story Blanket. Such a great book!
I read My Antonia a couple of years ago…I liked it, but it didn’t hang about me for long, the way some books do. My kids would love the Redwall Cookbook–Una found some of the recipes online after we read the books, and they do sound good…
My boys would be up in arms if they saw pink yarn on something meant for them, so I can imagine Gabe’s feelings very well! I have to learn a few more cast ons myself, knowing only two as I do…
Thank you for sharing about The Story Blanket – sounds wonderful and for hosting this each week.
Boys and pink yarn… that means alarmbells:) Nice ribbed hat Ginny, thanks for hosting!
Funny enough that pink yarn had me alarmed as well! I’ll have to look for that book!
I’ll have to look for that recipe book! Thanks for sharing the books they’re reading!
Thanks for hosting the yarn along again. I’m always so excited and due to the time difference go checking when you are probably still in bed and then it gets busy at work and miss the point when you post your post… One day I will manage to be in the first ten to submit my link 😉
I’m interested in The Story Blanket for my girls. I’ll check the library!
I love the colors of the yarn! beautiful – and yeah, really grown up 🙂
That’s going to be such a manly hat! I actually quite like it with the pink to accent the manliness 😉 Too bad it has to go. I always forget to add what I’m reading to my yarn along posts. Currently, it’s anything I can get my hands on by Susanna Kearsley. Her books just feel like home to me, with the added fun of time travel and romance 😉 But I’m supposed to be reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for my book club.
Thank you for the recommendation on The Story Blanket. We are into knitting books over here, as well. We love Shall I Knit You a Hat, Mr. Nick’s Knitting, and the Knitting of Elizabeth Amelia. My Antonia is on my list for this year. My mother read it and loved it.
left a link!
I love the hat colors and what a funny comment about the pink. I linked up my Yarn Along too.
I’ve been knitting quite a few hats lately as well. I also have a few boys that seem to misplace them when they are needed most! I am going to have to look for that book at the library it sounds delightful!! I also just wanted to say I loved the people in pots that you made for Silas! My little girl is 23 months and would love this! I’m going to try to find the supplies and put her older brothers to work making this up for her! Thanks for sharing!! Happy Knitting!!
I had no idea Redwall had a cookbook – we will be looking for it at our next library trip!!! We love those books as a family!
I do love the hat, especially the pink yarn!
Good for Seth! I loved the first Redwall book when I was a kid, but I never read the whole series. I never read My Antonia either, but I feel like I should have.
Love the illustrations of the story blanket and the yarn you’re knitting with is beautiful.
I haven’t heard of the redwall books, but that cooking book sounds lovely. Most cooking books sound lovely to me though 🙂
I am new to your blog and it’s my first time participating in the yarn along. I’m very excited to join! Thank you for the opportunity. Blessings!
Your post makes me remember (sheepishly) that in almost 20 years of knitting I have never made a hat! Will need to try one soon. Ginny – I also want to let you know that I have appreciated your posts this week about the process of working through sadness, whether it’s “depression” officially or more related to the seasons or grief or health issues or what have you. I know those feelings well (I’m sure most of us do) and am thinking of you. I loved the photos from your walk with Larkspur a couple of days ago.
joining in again with my sister Simona!
The story blanket sounds lovely. I will have to look out for that one.
Happy Wednesday!
We got The Story Blanket from the library recently too, my thre year old daughter loved it. And I remember reading the Redwall books myself as a child. I never realised there was a cookbook, how wonderful! Love the colours for Gabe’s hat too xx
Oh gosh, I read the first Redwall book and then gave up when I realized there were 21 more! I’ve heard they are all very similar, but since it’s such a good story, they’re all good! Good on Seth for sticking it out where I couldn’t. =)
Lovely colourway on the hat I can see my boys liking something like that, not the pink though lol. Nice to see what your children are reading also.
I’m always at the end of the list, not the beginning! This way I get to see it grow! We have never read the Redwall series here. Friends were reading that when we were reading other things…perhaps we’ll have to give it a go…won’t run out of books for awhile that way, will we?
Nice knitting, too. My daughter would really like the look. She has a couple of camo shirts with pink on the edges! it’s a soft, quiet kind of pink, but it would be very noticeable on your head!! Thanks for doing Yarn ALong
What a stylish hat that will be! I love the yarn. Thank you for sharing the children’s books. I am always looking for something good to read to the girls. I remember the Redwall books from childhood. Excellent choice! Happy Knitting!
I kind of like that pink! However you must please your recipient 🙂 Lovely hat and I know he will look fabulous in it.
We’ve been reading (and eating!) Redwall round these parts since my 23yos was little! Love Brian Jacques.
I have to admit, I was a tad worried when I saw the pink CO also ….
So glad to read you are feeling better. I’ve nearly finished the Sunday Sweater and it is such a lovely pattern to work with, thank you for devising it!
San xx
So weird! the widget won’t let me link up. Guess it is not meant to be this week. I have heard good things about the Redwall series, We might have to check those out.
Nevermind, got it to work, had to open up Safari instead of Firefox. Very odd.
I’ll have to look for that book. My boys love books about knitting too, which I very much encourage 😉 One of our favorites is “Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep.”
My Antonia is one of my favorite books ever. And I love the yarn you’re using – as well as your story about Gabe’s alarm at the pink yarn – so funny! 🙂
The Story Blanket sounds very sweet. I’ll look for it. The hat will compliment Gabriel nicely, I think. My older boys would have the same reaction with the pink yarn!