Since I last participated in Unraveled Wednesday, we had fair week, Winifred was born, Jerome had major jaw surgery, I went down to help Dominic and Shawn and hold Winnie as much as I could, we have gone to a couple weddings, one work trip, it's has been a busy time. What have I done since I last posted? A lot, actually. I finished the bear sweater for Winnie, which is quite appropriate. I will be working on matching mitts for her, too.

I finished Saint Patrick, which will be published in an online magazine in December. If you are interested in beta knitting this shawl, I would love your help. Please e-mail me for more information.

Because of trying to get Saint Patrick ready for photography, I had a late start on the baptismal gown, but I did start it, and I am hustling to finish it. Her baptism is in just over a week! I'm further along than that photo shows, because it is literally all I am knitting at the moment. When I am finished with this, I will start the mitts.

For fair week, our family made a good showing. Rich even entered some of his plants and produce and won first prizes for all but one (second for his Persian basil - we think because they expected it to look like Italian basil). A couple of the girls entered baked goods and received first place, plus some art work which also won almost all first prizes. I entered several baked goods myself, plus a couple of my finished samples from this past year, all with first prize ribbons, as well.

This past month was a good one for my reading! I finished: Taco USA (except for where he tried to write about religion, he really showed a lot of knowledge; his religious knowledge wasn't so great and caused him to make errors of interpretation, as well), The One and Only GooGoosh, Poirot Investigates, Towards Zero (read it, rather than watch the execrable television series), Regency Etiquette (this was delightful!), and The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris (I enjoyed this, but I hated the marital relationship. It didn't have to be the way it was, but it seems that modern authors need to have bad marriages and broken ones in every story). I'm reading a few things now, both fiction and non-fiction. I'm working through the sad, but important, Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, as well as some more Poirot and Miss Marple, as lighter reading when I need a break from the heaviness of the non-fiction.

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// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 12:36 AM