WIP Wednesday and Yarn-Along

 Progress on the brown socks is infinitesimally slow.  I did make the first increase row for the gussets.  But I should really have Steve put them on to make sure I guessed right.  Sigh...  I needed to make a therapeutic washcloth this week to overcome the sock ennui.

 

It's that time of the year in my 8th grade Latin class - we are reading Julius Caesar's de Bello Gallico, excerpts.  We just finished the part about the invasion of Britain; interestingly enough, although Henle Latin says it is book 7, it is actually contained in book 4.  My poor students are a bit overwhelmed by what they call Caesar's run-on sentences.  I don't quite have the heart to tell them that Caesar is considered one of the ancient writers with a clear, easily-understandable prose style.  We'll have just enough time left to peek into some of the bits about Vercingetorix, but I'm also quite behind in reading them the stories of the Trojan War, Ulysses, and the Aeneid from Myths of Greece and Rome.  Today I talked about the marks of an epic, and we read the account of Thetis' marriage to Peleus and Eris, the uninvited guest at the wedding.  There seems to be a Disney Princess/ fairytale reference in just about every mythology lesson I cover.

 

 

 Like rabbits, my string blocks are multiplying.  I want to keep making them until my strings can all fit into one container.  I hope my String Fling book comes soon.

And here is Orca Bay.  I got it out from the shelf, along with its intended backing fabric, to motivate myself to get it onto the frame to be quilted.

Linking up to the yarn-along and to WIP Wednesday.