Summer Time

I'm not knitting much, I'm afraid, though this project has been great for these first few weeks of summer -- a cowl/neck scarf in Noro Sekku -- as it is small, portable, and completely memorized.  I stuck it in a Ziploc bag and took it with me to Girl Scout day camp, and at lunch time actually managed to knit a round or two every day before our girls wandered back and said, "What are we doing this afternoon, Miss Jeanne?  Ooh, what's that?  Is that knitting?  I wish I could knit!"  The colors are much more vivid in real life -- I'll try to get a better picture when it's finished.

(Yeah, it's Noro.  When I came home with it a few months ago, David said, "I thought you were never ever going to buy Noro again!"  Well, what can I say?  The colors are fascinating.  I still don't like knitting with it.)

I've been reading much more than knitting.  Yes, that's a Kindle -- I finally succumbed.  I looked at all of the yellowing classics on our shelves one day, and thought, "I suppose I could get a Kindle and have all of these in less than an inch of shelf space."  I've been downloading freebies like a wild thing since then -- P.G. Wodehouse, Mrs. Gaskell, Jane Austen.  I confess that a few purchased ones have made their way across the ether to me as well -- this one is Edith Pargeter's The Brothers of Gwynedd, after I found that you still can't get the Brother Cadfael series in e-books.  I'm a little vexed with some of the features of the Kindle -- don't like the font and that you can't change it, don't like that you can't flip pages fast when you're looking for a particular spot (mine at least often gets stuck in a circle of three pages, and just goes round and round those three) -- but it's still amazing enough to me that you could have hundreds of books in one little place that I'm still happy.

Comments

[Mary Lou]

I got a Kindle for Christmas, the classics were what convinced me, too. Even though there is a part of me that fears the collapse of technology and all the books will be gone. I bought the Brothers of Gwynedd as well. I also thought I could get Kindle books from the library. Which I can, but access to them is pretty limited, as the publishers are happy with the set up. Oh well.

[Susannah]

I love my kindle. There is not a single day that I am not using it. Everything from novels to crochet/knitting pattern books, to cook books is on there, even a couple of gardening books. My friend in Texas has one that she takes to the hospital with her when she has her treatments. Once there she catches up on her emails with her kindle! But what I love best about my kindle is that I don't have to sacrifice a single book during a move nor do books take up luggage space when I travel. And it is lighter than many books I read.

All that aside, I love the colors in the knitted object in the image. I am going to order the wools this afternoon based on those colors and it will be the afgan I make this winter.