A reprieve from reading...

So before I started this blog, I was reading about a book a week... then I decided to start this blog and the amount of time I spend reading has drastically diminished. I'm not sitting around with idle hands though - my new hobby is knitting! I started taking a class a few weeks ago and have taken to knitting like a house on fire!! I think this new hobby will be good for me, though. My family can attest to the fact that I can often be found curled up with a book at the lake... which means I spend alot of time solo instead of socializing with the family. Now I've gotten good enough at knitting - I can knit AND join the conversation.

I've committed (loosely) to knitting scarves for my 4 nephews, so I think I'll be doing quite a bit of knitting and a little less reading. My first project is the blue scarf in the picture above. It's going pretty well - have only have to go back & undo the knitting to fix a mistake a few times. Hopefully I'll become more prolific by the time I get around to knitting the boys' scarves. I've also decided to take another class at Bella Lana so will learn how to knit a sweater this fall as well.

I still have lots of time on the bus to spend reading, though, and the knitting will probably lose it's 'addictive' feeling soon, so I'll be back on track and reading a book a week in no time I'm sure....