I'm joining Kat & the Unravelers today to share a review of my 2020 Knitting & Reading!

KNITTING:

It was an OK year! Details of all on Ravelry; I am knitorious.

Completed:

• (1) Cardigan
• (1) Pair of beaded, fingerless mitts
• (2) Shawls
• (1) Pillow
• (1) Epic baby blanket
• (1) Messy bun hat
• (4) Christmas Trees
• (3) Gnomes*

Started/Current WIPs:

• (1) Shawl for a friend (no deadline)
• (1) Village Pillow (fuzzy deadline)
• (1) *Gnome that needs fixing
• (1) Gnome for my sister Ann

READING:

I didn't meet my arbitrary "goal," but I did manage to read a couple more books than last year (though around 300 fewer pages)!

Pages:

• Fever, Mary Beth Keane (actually, I recall that I didn't finish this one... but almost)
• His Other Life, Melanie McCabe
• The Bone Weaver's Orchard, Sarah Read
• Wild Game, Adrienne Brodeur
• Plantation Slave Weavers Remember - An Oral History, Mary Madison

Audio:

• The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Woman in World War II, Svetlana Alexievich
• Crazy Brave: A Memoir, Joy Harjo
• Autumn, Ali Smith
• The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
• The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, Hope Jahren
• Between the World and Me, T-Nehisi Coates
• The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor

I also listened to Break Shot: My First 21 Years, James Taylor's memoir on Audible and enjoyed it quite a bit.

Dabbled/started (audio): Beowulf, So You Want to Talk About Race, and Hamnet; and purchased five other titles that I haven't even begun yet. I'm going to restart Hamnet very soon!

And in pages, I added:

• (1) Cookbook
• Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa
• (1) Architecture book
• Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
• (1) Embroidery book