yarn along

Here we are approaching another fabulous Wednesday and I fear I don’t have so much to report.

If you missed this post, I’ll give you a quick update: the jays are on vacation for a week in the mountains, 10 minutes from an awesome ski resort and about 30 seconds (walking that is) from the indoor pool in the complex where we’re staying.

Thanks to sunny days on the ski hill, the proximity of the aforementioned pool and little children who want to play outside for ten-minute intervals every thirty minutes (requiring lots of wardrobe changes), it hasn’t been quite the knitting and reading dream vacation I’d imagined. Not to say we aren’t having a blast!

At least I can knit during the evenings without thoughts of clutter, laundry and school plans, right? Uh, that was the idea until I fell yesterday on the ski hill and (I’m guessing) sprained my thumb – more on that in another post. And reading, well, that was out of the question as my eyes stayed open for about five minutes last night without something busying my hands.

I did have some stolen chances to work on my  Fisherman’s Pullover earlier this week. It’s been a frustrating process with four do overs but thanks to kind suggestions from many of you here last week and some sweet help from Kristi at Three Little Knitted Frogs (my new knitting guru and inspiration) I think I have conquered the short rows (for this pattern at least) and I’ve moved on. Phew.

Now I’m onto the raglan increases and so looking forward to long boring body work after the frustrations of the yoke shaping.

As I already mentioned reading has not been very successful this week although we did listen to a fair number of Magic Treehouse books on the way out here. I did want to share the book my sister is reading now, The Birth House. I read it myself a few years ago on a friend’s suggestion and thought it was a great read, although there were a few bits I didn’t love as much (not that I can remember what they were after all this time).

No, I couldn’t resist this spectacular backdrop.

It follows young Dora Rare who becomes apprentice to an Acadian midwife at the beginning of the First World War. In the face of a growing opposition to natural birthing and folk remedies in their small Nova Scotian village, Dora fights to protect the traditions and wisdom that have been passed down to her. Midwives, natural birthing and Nova Scotia (where I grew up) – all dear to my heart. Read more about it here.

I hope I’ll be getting back to my sweater and knitting aspirations very soon but in the meantime I’m going to soak up all the lovely moments that this escape to the mountain offers.

To see what others are bringing to this week’s yarn along visit Ginny at Small Things.