~ 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 a scarf. I feel like I’ve been knitting this scarf forever, and I have only just passed the halfway mark. I really want to cast on for a sweater for myself. But first I must finish this scarf. I must.
In more exciting news, Jonny and I are fighting over Homegrown & Handmade. Not really, we’re pretty good at taking turns. But we are both reading it. The title pretty much sums up the content of the book. It’s a nice “big picture” sort of book with chapters covering a large range of topics, and really just touching the surface on each. It’s sort of a springboard book, one you read to help decide what topics you want to really delve deeply into. Jonny and I love everything and want to do everything. We’ve always had that problem.
Beautiful blog as always. You deserve to win everything.
I HAVE to ask….what is that critter on that book? It looks like a opossom.(sp) or a weird looking goat.
please let me know!!
Beautiful scarf and fabulous book recommendation! Thank you! 🙂
Lovely scarf –and voting for you too. Best wishes….
My vote has been logged! Good luck!
Hi Ginny! Your scarf is coming along nicely and that book looks very interesting! I saw on FB yesterday that you are in the midst of night-weaning. My LO will be two in a month and I’m getting pretty desperate to do the same. My husband isn’t as on board to help out as yours though…lol. Have a great day!
I looked at that book a few times online. I have a similar homesteading collection of books. Please let us know some of the main topics that really were of intrest to you. Is this something one should get if they allready have a collection of sorts?
Ginny, I love that pattern for the scarf. It looks much like the feather and fan pattern on the shawl I am knitting right now. It is so lovely, especially when it is blocked! Thank you, always, for hosting this fun weekly knitting circle!
Joining in today for your Yarn Along. Thanks for giving us all a place to meet.
I’ve also read Homegrown & Handmade and enjoyed it. Your scarf looks great and I hope you’re able to finish it soon so you can start that sweater. :o)
When I knitted that scarf recently it took a lot longer than I thought it was going to, too! It’s a nice relaxing knit, though, isn’t it?
I voted 🙂 Hope you win!
You got my vote Ginny! Good luck:)
Jeannine
I feel like I’ve been crocheting this blanket “forever” too!
I love that lavendar yarn.:-)
Voted! The scarf is really lovely.
Another great book? Just what I need! Thanks for the recommendation.
I love the scarf and really enjoy your blog.
Pretty scarf! Happy Ash Wednesday!
Voted! Good luck to you, Ginny. 🙂
I am also loving ‘Homegrown & Handmade.’ I purchased it digitally a while ago to try out Better World Books’ digital service. I haven’t gotten very far into it, mostly because I don’t have a tablet so I am attached to the computer if I want to read digital books. I’d love to hear what you think of it. xo
Looks like a book I would certainly read! I tend to want to try everything, too. Now that I have tackled knitting perhaps crochet is on the horizon..
I voted… and I think you’re in the lead! Good luck! I love the scarf!
I also have a hard time with wanting to do too much – but that books sounds great.
That does look like a good book! I put the call out on the ROTH social media sites and on my own blog for people to go and vote for you. I hope that it helps!
Scarves can take forever, but yours is certainly beautiful. Off to go vote. Good luck.
I am also in the middle of a scarf. It’s been a while since I have made one. Why does it feel like it’s taking so long?
I am the same way! Always loving everything, wanting to know everything- I don’t know how people aren’t just interested in …everything! I will look into this book as well.
And as a ps- I am new to your blog. But I don’t know how I stayed away for this long! I have seen the yarn along button on almost every blog I read. You are THAT Ginny! The yarn along Ginny!
I am totally adding that book to my must read list. I’m about to start the never-ending sweater project!
Another book to add to my list! Thank you Ginny 🙂
Your knit looks wonderful, so professional!
Perhaps I need to pick up a copy of this book myself? I could pass it on to my sister once I’m done. Or is it the kind of book you want to keep forever in your shelf and pull out occasionally?
Enjoy the rest of your week 🙂
I really want that book. Well actually I have a lot of those kinds of books. Being a renter still the most I can do is container garden, and all the cooking from scratch and handmade things. But I’m thinkin about the chickens and bees and such.
Oh, that book looks like a good one! And that scarf, like all of your knits, looks absolutely dreamy. happy wednesday to you and yours!
Gorgeous scarf!
Voted! You deserve it, Ginny. x
Totally voting for you – and I am sending you scarf-related sympathies! How is it that such a simple project always seems to take forever to knit?
Just voted for you. Right now you have the highest number of votes. Fingers crossed.
Thanks for the great idea! I had fun with that this morning!
hmmm, I think I need to see what this book is about, and you haven’t been knitting it forever, maybe three weeks? Not too bad 🙂
but it feels like forever!!!!
Voting for you, good luck!
Your book sounds interesting and your scarf really looks beautiful ~ I love the color!
I am working on a similar project. Although I did set it aside and the love has returned!
I voted! Good luck on the contest. I feel the same way about my current knit. I really just want to be done so it’s not hanging over my head. But that doesn’t mean I can’t sew instead, so I did that yesterday. 🙂 Loopholes!
That book looks perfect for my husband and myself! I’ll have to look for it! And I am also working on a scarf that I must finish so that I can work on other projects. I have a shawl and sontag for historic reenacment that I really want to get to, but I need to get this scarf done first (and preferably while it’s still cool enough out for my husband to enjoy it this year!)
Thanks for sharing your book, sounds right up my alley.
thanks for the book reccomendation, I like making home made food, last year I had a pumpkin growing on my terrace!!!
that scarf inspires me to do something a bit more complicated than what i’d normally take on. hmmm…and maybe it’s time to knit something for someone other than new baby coming soon?
What a great looking scarf! I will definitely register and vote!
The book sounds wonderful … I’ll have to check it out!
Just finished Around the Year with the von Trapps and really enjoyed it! Thank you for mentioning it!
Great looking scarf and best of luck with the rest of it. Good book recommendation.
Thank you for the book recommendation, it will be perfect for Mike and I am ordering it today.