Bookshelves, knitting famous and otherwise

I love to squint at the bookshelves I see in people's Zooming and blog posts, so here are a few of my go-to books 

There are a lot more, but this is part of the art and nature collection, or random accumulation.

And a word on favor of jigsaw puzzling. I'm amazed to find how calming it's being. I'm sleeping better, dreaming more interesting narratives, just generally doing  better.

I think there's a connection. I do them in short intervals, waiting for the microwave, taking a screen break, resting my knitting shoulders. It's a quiet thread running through the day. Just setting one piece in place now and then is so good for my mood. I'm surprised, never having been interested before in puzzling.  

Speaking of knitting, here's a famous knitter

Well, actor knitting.

Quite a few actors do crafts while waiting on the movie set. I know about Audrey Hepburn, the other Hepburn (!) and do you know any others? 

I mean knitting off screen, not acting knitting, like that actor on Monarch of the Glen hopelessly stabbing needles about trying to act as a knitter. There were a couple of Miss Marple actors who really could knit in the part, too.

I remember Rosey Grier, linebacker, doing needlepoint on a talk TV show way back. Eleanor Roosevelt often knitted at meetings, including the ones where she was ushering the UN into existence.

And nearer home, my current Sock Ministry sock in progress

Happy day everyone, Dems took the Arizona Senate seat. Only one seat from holding the Senate with two seats still undecided. 

And Putin's survival chances, after the retreat from Kherson, are up against a watermelon right now, echoing Truss's inability to outlast a lettuce.

Enjoy small,  jigsaw pieces, and large, Senate seats and liberated cities, victories today.