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Summer 2025 Check-In

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Well hello there stranger, I hope you are having a wonderful summer if you are in the northern hemisphere like me or a great winter in the southern hemisphere! I am just here to do a little check-in and let you know I am still here, I am just a lot more active on my instagram these days, but I am working behind the scenes to bring life back into this blog that I have loved for so many years.

This blog started off as strictly a book blog where I posted reviews, challenges, tags, and more for many years, but slowly I added in bullet journaling, crocheting, crafting, and knitting. I am really trying to figure out to best organize all of these things into a coherent layout etc. so this blog will be be changing visually a bit over the next month or so because of those changes. I already did do a bit of an update to the header image and theme, which I am really happy with as well.

Getting to intertwine my old loves with my new loves is a hard thing to organize especially with so many years of content so I hope it isn’t to bothersome for you. Going forward I am going to do my best to get back to posting once a week, Mondays this time, but I am not making any promises during this transition phase of things. I am hoping by September it will all be worked out and ready to go.

I also wanted to take a moment to thank those who have been around since the beginning, I appreciate you all so much and cherish the memories so much. I hope to see you here as well as on my other socials! Keep an eye out on this space for what is to come, I am planning some series, challenges, and more!

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Current Reads and WIPs

Current WIPs and Reads | August 2023

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Hello and welcome to a little mid-month check in with the book or books I am reading and projects that are keeping me busy. I will say, I already finished a book this month…who am I?! But, I am still working on another that I believe will last me the rest of the month because it a TOME. As for projects I am, as always, working on a few.

Current Reads

American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, which is about J. Robert Oppenheimer. Yes, I did see the movie Oppenheimer and then promptly picked up the book the next time I went to a bookstore. This is a tome, but I am reading a little bit at a time and really enjoying learning a bit more about Oppenheimer. I can’t say that this is an aspect of history I really ever delved in, I never thought to look up who or whom created the atomic bomb and their stories. After seeing the movie, I became curious and as is customary, not everything can be kept in a movie so I am already seeing some information that is new to me.

Current WIPs

Completed ribbing on knitting needles on couch next to lemon themed yarn bag.

While I have about four WIPs or works in progress on the go, I am really focusing on two at this point in time. The first being Wyethia by Jessica McDonald (Ravelry | Website) This is a really nice shirt with lace along the bottom that I really would love to finish ASAP so I get some wear out of it before the weather cools off. As of writing this I am done with the lace, body, and have split for front and back. I am currently working on the back, so I don’t have a ton more to do. I am using Concept by Katia Cotton-Merino in color 59 (gray), which is 70% cotton and 30% wool.

The second project I am really just starting is my Tessellated Vest by Andrea Mowry (Ravelry | Website) for New York Sheep and Wool this year. I am using a kit I picked up from Farmer’s Daughter Fibers using pincycle Yarns Dyed in the Wool in the color ghost ranch (wool), The Farmer’s Daughter Fibers Oh Dang! in the color clay dreaming (alpaca suri silk blend), and The Farmer’s Daughter Fibers Spinster’s Daughter in the color willow creek (wool). My goal is to work on this and finish in time to actually wear it to the festival. Since I decided to work on the vest, I think I will be able to do it in time.

Thanks for Reading! ClassicBhaer.com

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For the record: everything I’ve written here is entirely my own opinion.These views do not reflect or represent those of my current or past employers.