As I was reading some blogs at work on Friday, I came across Yarnation. The Duchess, who writes the blog, was describing how her husband reads to her while she knits and how pleasurable this is. I thought that was really nice and suggested to Peter Kevin that he could read to me and I cannot quite capture in words his response. He did, however, suggest that we could go to the bookstore and purchase Harry Potter on cd and I could listen to the cds while I knit. Now, that is one of my favorite ways to knit, listening to a good book but I felt it was very self-indulgent and said so. He said "Let me spoil you today". So, Kate and I went to the bookstore and purchased the new Harry Potter book read by a wonderful man named Jim Dale. He is amazing and has won several awards for his over 200 voices created for the HP books. So, it took forever to load them onto my mp3 player (the technologists in my family said load them to the computer first but I didn't listen) so they would be portable. During this time, very little housework got done, except laundry (clean underwear is a necessity) but I did manage to do some knitting( imagine that). I am loving the book. I never thought I would like to be read to but since I cannot read on the train(I get sick) I have become addicted to recorded books. Thank goodness there are hundreds available for download at netlibrary.


This is the hourglass lace sock pattern that I started on Friday night. Every new pattern I try teaches me something. What I learned this time is that I take a long time to learn a pattern and become comfortable with it. There is a lot of frogging in the beginning but usually I have success if I persevere. This is nice and stretchy and should fit my rather wide feet nicely without stretching the pattern all out of wack. I like it and I like working with the white yarn. It is so pretty and soft when knit up.
The sky is quite threatening right now. They are predicting heavy downpours today and I am looking forward to a quiet day indoors with Harry and the sock. I am going to put dinner in the crockpot very soon so even that will be taken care of. Now, if I could just get someone to do the little bit of ironing there is to do, the day would be perfect.
Have a peaceful day everyone.