Little This, Little That

 Let's talk!  What have you been up to these January "blue" days?  there is no need to get down in spirits just because the sun is hidden by clouds; you just want to curl up on the sofa with a good book, cup of tea to sit under the latest quilt you have finished!  

Here is a challenge to decide the next book to read.  Try this each month which comes from Friends and Fiction

My One Word Title is Beartown by Fredrik Backman--I'm reading via Scribd App--sometimes I can do audio, which is perfect.  It is book about hockey in a small town. 

  Facebook group Read with the Book Girls  encourages us to read books set in different USA locations.  Each month there will be suggestions from several regions--it's not reading 52 books in a year!!  Although, that would be delightful!

I liked the idea of reading books from different regions of the USA.  My pick is Back Bay by William Martin--this book is flashing back and forth between 1812 and present day in the Boston area

Another way to pick your book—so many ways to decide on what to read, especially if you are stuck.  Not a problem for me!  I have a stockpile of books to read—at the present time, I’m finishing up one of Alexander McCall Smith’s books about the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency—“A Song of Comfortable Chairs”—I’ve enjoyed each one of these books! 

I've begun another Musselburgh Hat designed by Ysolda

It's mindless knitting once you have the start with 8 stitches joined into a circle--that's the most flustering issue! 

Loved this skein of yarn when my eyes hit it!  Once the 8 stitches are growing, I’m always anxious to get them to circular needle!  Then, it’s knit knit knit! 

2022 brought some mistakes—you can never live without mistakes, which make us a better person—only if we correct them!  Case in period is the above block!  No rhyme or reason—it looked a mess!  But, in my brain, it was going to be just fine in a quilt setting!

I kept thinking about that block—so out came Jack the Ripper to put things right!  Oh so much better now! This is block #7 from Sewicialities. 

We visited a friend during holidays and she showed me this quilt her grandmother made—it’s a lovely form of cathedral windows! 

And now—back to stitching or reading or planning my next UFO

Come join me in a new adventure—each year we turn a new page in our life—last year is under our belts and we learned from our mistakes. Here’s to 2023!!