March Knitting

Hello all - well, it's April 1st, so a new month is here to greet us.  I don't know what is coming, but that's the thing, the world keeps going anyway, not caring if we are happy, sad, nervous, whatever.  In some ways it's reaasuring.

I have finally managed to remember that today is Wednesday, and decided to join Kat and everyone for Unraveled Wednesday.  Oh the unraveling that occurred during March!  Fortunately, right now, I'm moving right along.  Here are the two things I was knitting during the month:

On your left, is sock #2 of my March KAL socks.  All that is left is the rest of the foot and the toe, and that will likely happen by the end of this weekend at the latest.  So I won't have finished during the month, as I'd hoped, but I'll just be a week late.  Not too bad, considering that I had concentration issues, and this pattern also presented me with a new heel construction that took me a while to do.

On the right, is a smooshed up sweater-in-progress.  I spent way too much time unraveling and re-knitting the neck on this when I started, but now it's underway.  However, the only needles that were the correct size were also on a cable that was too short, so I'm waiting for the new needles that I ordered from WEBS to arrive, becuase there are just way too many stitches on the size needle I have and it's making it a PITA to knit. 

Please do not count on either project being the color in the photo - not even really close, but this is as well as I could do at the moment.

As for reading, this is what I'm going to attempt to start next:

Generally, this kind of book would not be my cup of tea (cup of blood?), but a friend sent it to me to read, and a friend of hers wrote it.  It may be OK, it doesn't sound completely out of my wheelhouse, and there are Jesuits, so that might make it a bit more interesting to me.  I'll let you know.  :-)

I see that a lot of people (OK, tons of people) are using this time to start baking with sourdough.  I am somewhat amused, because The Tim has been baking with sourdough for years, and most of the time, people give him a strange look when he mentions it.  He makes bread every week, and then maybe every other week or so, another variation using the sourdough.  I told him for once he was on the cutting edge of a trend!  That's him, always way ahead of the curve ... hahahaha.

Let me know what you are knitting/reading/doing these days, and please know that I hope all of you and yours are well.  Though things may not get better anytime soon, it's clear that we will get there if people stop being selfish and realize that we all need to work together.  It's not easy, and not necessarily pleasant, but it's better than the alternative, right?

Take care.