A Homemade Life, Second blanket Section & Remains of the Day

Progress on many fronts!

1. I am on the second section of my blue

checkered textured blanket

2. I went to NYC yesterday with my red cart

and it was much better than last time,

when I was just weary and in great need of my 

trusty red cart!

3. I found this book for 2 Dollars at the Strand!

In hardcover with dust jacket.

I've been enjoying it; I read some of it before

at one of my literature reading fantastic cooking friends places...

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I found some other books too but will wait to share those later on, DV!

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So here's the blanket progress:

First section is done 

and I am almost done with the first square of section two! 

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(Sorry for less than brilliant sunny pictures;

took at night and with my phone as

my camera cards are full, the new one is in the mail,

I still have to copy all my still-on-the-now-full-memory-cards

 pictures to my computer /

eternal hard drive to back them up,

which means no camera!)

I am still reading 

Remains of the Day

and it is getting quite interesting;

kind of spy-intrigue like right now,

which now that I think of it, 

is not surprising but I did not expect it.

 I am excited to finish reading this and 

to get more work on my blanket done;

I did get some knitting done on the weekend,

which was great and hope to do more this coming weekend!

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I was so happy to see Madeleine L'Engle's

Wrinkle in Time being displayed

at the Strand :)

I also discovered that

there is a British tea place

fairly near to Mr. Husband's work...

but I did not go in...

They had a bunch of rules and

one was that a 12.50 minimum order was expected.

Well, I wanted tea only so did not go in;

I had an excellent lunch with Mr. Husband

(including a vegan cauliflower soup with cumin and coconut milk

if I remember right; it was good!)

and did not need to spend money unnecessarily. 

But I may go back after Great Lent with a friend...

the one who crochets, sews and is willing to teach me

how to sew and quilt.  

If that alone does not warrant a lunch at a nice tea place,

well what does?! :)

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Loving my reading, knitting &

living to tell the tale of a day in NYC.

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What are you reading and creating?

Any new tales to tell?

Yarn Along with us!