Yarns - Socks and "The Nightingale"

 

     I started my Christmas knitting in June.  Finished my son's gift A Sockhead Hat and sent it off to Alaska to keep him warm.  Instead of the hat, I plan to make him a pair of socks for his Christmas gift out of Payton's yarn (nice and thick).  His girlfriend Emily loved this sock yarn I got last December (Stroll Tonal Sock Yarn) and I asked her what she wanted from it. "Socks!" was her immediate reply.  She's a Mainer, I understand.  So I started hers using How I Make My Socks by Susan Anderson.  I'm a sock newbie and going slow, but they're slowly forming, a little bit every day.

     I started another book by Kristen Hannah The Nightingale.  The words are magically transporting you to the Summer of '39, right before the war in Europe.  The summer is beautiful and talk of war is among men in the cafe.  A French family walk to the beach and have a picnic. The wife refuses to talk about such nonsense as war.  You sense the beauty of the day.  How poignant, knowing as the reader does that this is it, it's ending.  I pause and drink that in.  A taste of yesterday.  So this book obviously will be an amazing read.

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