This Bluebird sweater is inching closer to completion each day. I was hoping to have the body completed by tonight, but that didn't happen. I'm supposed to knit until the body is seven inches from the underarm, and it has been six inches for a day and a half. Tomorrow was supposed to be for the sleeves, or at least the first sleeve, but might be for finishing the hem and getting started on the first sleeve. We are having another Christmas dinner on Saturday, with all the family, and I wanted to be able to give her the sweater then, even though it is two weeks after her birthday. Autumn's birthday is this weekend, but I have a great present for her already!

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Though I didn't finish Love and Saffron before the library ruthlessly took it back, I am more than half way through it, and I do enjoy it, but I'm tired of how much political lecturing there is in it. It could have been expressed through the story, without the condescension, but I am afraid modern authors don't know how to make their points in their story, without stepping out of it to be lecturers, or don't trust their readers to be smart enough to get their message. Trust your readers. When I am consistently lectured in a fiction book, I never really enter the story, even when it is a good one. This book could have been so much better (even though it is enjoyable), and could have made its point withouth constantly shifting in and out of the characters' to the author's voice. When I get it back from the library, I will finish it. There is enough fun and interest in it for that, but I don't think I will continue with her other books.

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Labels: Books, Design, Family, Homemaking, Knitting, WIP, Yarn Along

// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 11:04 PM