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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love how quickly this sock has knitted up and I think it's possibly my favourite yarn/pattern combo to date? #WIPWednesday #Socktober #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶

A Laid Edges socks in Ainsworth & Prin Plump Sock DK, colourway Doodle

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ainsworth & Prin Plump Sock DK 🤝🏻 Laid Edges socks 🧦🧶 I've been wanting to make these for a while now and got too impatient to wait until I'd finished my Broken Seed stitch socks, happy #Socktober 🥰 #ShowMeYourKnits

The beginnings of a Laid Edge sock in Ainsworth & Prin Plump DK, colourway doodle

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's official: gift knitting season has commenced! I've been itching to cast on another Clova vest since finishing my first iteration, and my sister said she would love one and I knew immediately I wanted to use this wonderful Heylor colourway of WYS The Croft yarn 🧶

4 skeins of West Yorkshire Spinners The Croft Aran in the colourway Heylor on a grey carpeted floor, with a warm-toned kilim carpet in the top left corner

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Taking a break from sock knitting to make some progress with my second Musselburgh hat 🧶 Plan is to have 2 contrast rims in some scrap yarn I have, with this beautifully soft Sysleriget Sock as the main body #ShowMeYourKnits #WIP

An in-progress Musselburgh hat knit in Sysleriget Sock, 5 speckles colourway

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

2nd sock finished! For now, a coordinating pair, but my plan is to knit another two with the other half of the Gusto Echoes yarn so that I have 2 pairs of matching socks 🧦

2 broken seed stitch socks next to each other. The one on the left progresses from black to royal blue, the one on the right progresses from royal blue to orange

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Couldn't resist a visit to Criminally Good Books in York yesterday, and came away with some excellent-sounding books recommended by Megan 💙📚⚡️

A white hand holds a copy of Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests by K J Whittle and a copy of The Pie & Mash Detective Agency by J. D. Brinkworth in front of a monster plant

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Train reading for a trip to York 📚💙

My white hand holds a copy of Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-Zi, translated by Lin King and published by And Other Stories

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

These broken seed socks have tested me a lot more than I thought they would, but now I'm onto the second sock I've reached a flow state and I'm really liking how this Gusto Echoes yarn is peeping through 🧶

A half-knit sock, using the Broken Seed Stitch sock recipe on Ravelry. Contrast cuff in milk bottle West Yorkshire Spinners 4ply Signature sock yarn, with variegated Gusto Echoes yarn used as the main colour (colourway 1512)

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I went to see The Odyssey at the weekend, do you think you can tell based on my currently reading pile? 💙📚

A stack of books containing Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson, A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich, The Iliad (translated by Emily Wilson), American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee, and A History of Booksellers and the Bookshop by Jean-Yves Mollier. The stack is on a brown wooden table with a pothos vine and bookshelves in the background

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hot Greek Summer/July Hopefuls/the books that made it into my bag before I left for the journey South. I'm clearly in a bit of a phase.. 📚💙

A copy of Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson and Emily Wilson's translation of the Iliad on a train table

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

It's socks week for #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶🧦 I've not made a pair of socks since tackling the kilt socks, and it's been even longer since I made a pair for myself. It's finally time to use the skein of yarn I bought the day before I left the Netherlands (nearly 3 years ago!)

The calf part of my first Slip It Simple sock, using Undercover Otter Squirm 4ply

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Thrilled with this brioche blanket I've knit for my friend! I used the Purl Soho Pocketful of Posy pattern with Cascade 220 worsted yarn and it is brilliantly squishy and cosy. Hopefully the recipient likes it when I give it to her later today! 🧶

A Purl Soho Pocketful of Posy brioche blanket knit in cascade 220 worsted yarn in cabernet, light pink, hot pink, blue quartz heather, gold, and butter with the colour natural as the main contrast colour. It is draped over a chair in front of bookshelves.

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Oo my current WIP makes for a perfect post for #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 I'm working on my first ever garment for myself! A See My Vest knitted with chunky yarn leftover from previous projects. I chose the greyscale colour scheme out of necessity, but I'm actually really liking how it's coming together 😊

An in progress top down vest, with stripes of black, grey, then 1 strand of grey held together with 1 strand of white.

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

We have designated today a day of reading I've gone around the house and collected a small pile of books I think I could reasonably finish before 2026 and would like to finish one of them, and N is committing himself to reading the entirety of This Way Up, having started it this morning 📚💙

A small stack of books is on a coffee table: How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer by Sarah Bakewell, The Parenthood Dilemma by Gina Rushton, and The Illegals by Shaun Walker. Next to the stack is a white and blue striped mug and in the foreground a bowl of chocolate coins and Dutch kruidnoten

A hand holds up a copy of This Way Uo by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman with a small Christmas tree and some bookshelves in the background

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Onto the 4th colour of the Pocketful of Posy blanket by Purl Soho that I'm making for a friend 🥰🎄🧶

My WIP which is the Purl Soho Pocketful of Posy brioche blanket which I'm knitting in Cascade 220 worsted yarn. The side on show is hot pink changing into baby blue.

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Now that the kilt socks are out of the way, my only #WIP is this brioche blanket for my friend. I've never done brioche before and tension is testing my patience, but I am loving the squishy fabric it's making! 🧶

The beginnings of the Purl Soho Pocketful of Posy brioche blanket, knit with Cascade 220 yarn. The colour at the top is Cabernet, the colour on the bottom Soft Pink.

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Folks I did it! I completed the kilt socks! If I were to make then again (which I will not be doing) I would definitely do things a little differently, but mainly I'm just proud of them. And my partner loves them! 🧶

A pair of kilt socks knit in New Lanark DK wool in Ecru, pattern is Patons UK kilt sock

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

My sister's Christmas #MusselburghHat is finished, blocked, and ready to wrap! So happy with how this turned out, and will definitely be casting on one for myself 🧶

An Ysolda Musselburgh hat knit in Ginger Twist Studio's Masham Mayhem yarn in the Voyager colourway

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

#WIPWednesday and it's Musselburgh hat time 🧶 Approaching the halfway point I reckon, and still loving this Ginger Twist hand dyed Masham Mayham yarn 🥰

An in progress Musselburgh Hat (Ysolda Patterns) in Gingrr Twist studio Masham Mayhem 4ply yarn in the Voyager colourway, with my hand holding a mug of chai latte next to it

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I've only got eyes for one #Socktober project at the moment 🧶 The kilt sock chronicles continue; calf shaping almost done! #WIPWednesday

My in progress Patons Kilt Sock lies across my leg with my project bag in the top left corner. Yarn is New Lanark DK on ecru

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Frogging was definitely the right choice, I managed to close up those ladders! 🧶

A Musselburgh Hat by Ysolda patterns in Masham Mayhem by Ginger Twist (Voyager colourway), this time with less obvious ladders where the increases are!

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

After approximately 3000 attempts at casting on, my very first #MusselburghHat is underway! 🧶

A Musselburgh hat by Ysolda that has had all of the increase rounds done. Yarn is Ginger Twist Studio Masham Mayhem 4ply in the Voyager colourway

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Storm Amy is giving me the perfect excuse (not that I needed one) to cosy up and make some serious kilt sock progress 🧶

The current view of my dining table: a blue and white floral tea set next to a yarn bowl and above my in progress kilt sock (the Patons kilt sock in New Lanark DK ecru), all resting on an Indian green and orange embroidered tablecloth

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I have ventured south of the border. Must be #KidsConf day!

Big Ben look resplendent in the morning September sun

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I successfully located the 5th DPN so it's official: the 2nd kilt sock is underway 🧶🧦 #WIP #Knitsky #WIPWednesday

The cuff of a kilt sock on DPNs on my lap. The pattern is Patons kilt sock and yarn is New Lanark DK in ecru

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It's the final stages of the Peace By Piece blanket 🎉🎉 2 out of 4 mitred borders done, then it's just a case of blocking and *maybe* adding a backing. #ShowMeYourKnits #KnitSky 🧶

The Peace By Piece blanket designed by Needle and Feather with the border on knitting needles

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Behold! A kilt sock! I wanted to cast on the second sock immediately but a sock needle has fallen victim to the project and I can't find it...so I guess I'll just have to take a different knitting project on holiday 😌🧶

A cream kilt sock on a leg. Patter. Is Patons Kilt sock and yarn is New Lanark Wool in DK

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Slowly but surely Ruby Tandoh's #AllConsumingBook is dragging me out of one of the biggest reading slumps I've experienced and actually making me believe in the enjoyment of books again 🩷💚❤️ Thank you @serpents-tail.bsky.social for the early copy!

A hardback copy of All Consuming by Ruby Tandoh on a seagrass mat, next to a cappucino

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Word on the street is that #TheEndingWritesItself by Evelyn Clarke is set to be the big book of 2026 👀 Can't quite believe I'm reading a book that's only out in April next year but I love a locked room mystery and the intrigue has got me hooked 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💙📚

A proof copy of The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke lies open on a coffee shop table with a chair in the background

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

How's it going in the bookselling world I hear you ask?

A pink post note on the desk saying "days since distribution disasters: 0"

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I am absolutely loving #NoFriendToThisHouse by @nataliehaynes.bsky.social 🐏 (thank you @panmacmillan.bsky.social for the early copy!) 📢 out 11th September #Booksky 💙📚

A proof copy of No Friend To This House by Natalie Haynes held by my hand over my lap on the bus, with my tote bag decorated with pins and badges in the background

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Kilt sock update: officially delayed but finally onto the leg shaping! 🧶

An in progress kilt sock in DK New Lanark wool, with a cable rib cuff and garter rib sock body

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I read a very special book recently and hopefully what I've written makes you want to pick it up and give a go too: www.instagram.com/p/DK6hQXCIzN... #Booksky #Bookseller 💙📚💡

The Virago edition of A Life Of One's Own by Marion Milner (published under the pseudonym Joanna Field) lies on a wooden table. At the top of the table is a flat white coffee on a red saucer and underneath that there is a very large chocolate chip cookie on a plate.

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Some recent new additions to the TBR shelf 📚💙 Including some treats from @panmacmillan.bsky.social, @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, and @profilebooks.bsky.social 🫶🏻 www.instagram.com/p/DKWqYT9I-c...

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Update: cable border finished! 🧶 #KnitSky

A hand holding the cable border of the beginnings of a kilt sock. Yarn is cream New Lanark DK

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I'm usually a monogamous knitter but at the moment I have several WIPs on the go. The biggest one is this Peace By Piece blanket By Pattern Knits which is a (now very late) present for my friend. 50% assembled! #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶

One half of the Peace by Piece blanket by Pattern Knits, made up of individual colourwork squares crocheted together. On a grey carpet background.

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I recently started watching Spooks and have become a bit obsessed with spies, so when I saw @profilebooks.bsky.social were publishing The Illegals by Shaun Walker*, I snapped at the chance to read it. I'm about 100 pages in and loving it so far! *thanks Profile for the gifted copy 💙📚💡

My left hand holds up a copy of The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker in front of my bookshelves. There is a letter poking out of the top of the book which was sent with the gifted package

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

A new WIP! My partner asked for some kilt socks a while back so I decided to knit some for his upcoming 30th. A friend put a new knitting shop on my radar and I went there to buy the New Lanark DK for them; a thoroughly Scottish project 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧶 #Knitsky #ShowMeYourKnits

The beginnings of a sock on double pointed needles, leading back to a ball of New Lanark DK shade Ecru being held in a wooden yarn bowl. All on a wooden table.

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Finished up The Autists by Clara Törnvall this morning! It felt quite disjointed in places but ultimately the non-UK/US perspective and the references Törnvall pulls on were so interesting that these won me over. Also what a novelty to read a book about autism by a woman and about women! 💙📚💡

My left hand holds a copy of Clara Törnvall's The Autists in front of my lap, with a shadow cast over the cover

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Recently went on a bit of a #RomanceBooks binge and one of the books I read was Not Safe For Work by Nisha J Tuli 🌶📚 TLDR: a really enjoyed! It was clearly written from the heart, and I found it much more memorable than Tuli's romantasy www.instagram.com/p/DJ9uakXI3F...

The cover of Not Safe For Work by Nisha J Tuli on a wooden desk, with a green chair on the corner and a rug in the background

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Thanks to the bookselling gods (the Harper Indie Thinking team) I got my hands on a physical proof of Human Rites and my my my is it good to be excited about reading again

A proof copy of Human Rites by Juno Dawson with the wording "There'll Be The Devil To Pay" on the cover, held by my hand on my lap on the beach

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I vividly remember buying this book just before I went to Greece on holiday in 2018. I started it 2 days ago 🫠 How long do books typically linger on your TBR shelf? #booksky

A copy of The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson being held up by my hand

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

This WHSmith nonfiction display is like a @ifbookspod.bsky.social bingo card (with a few exceptions)

A nonfiction bay of books at a train station WHSmiths, with a variety of business books and 'airport nonfiction'

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Current read courtesy of The Streisand Effect! I love how all that the emergency arbitration ruling has done is give the publisher of Careless People the excellent tagline 'the book Meta doesn't want you to read'

A hand holding a copy of Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Happy #WorldBookDay from me and my collection of books about books 📚🌍

A stack of books about books on a wood table:
- Mijn geliefde boekhandel by Petra Hartlieb
- A Bookshop Of One's Own by Jane Cholmeley
- Ex Libris by Michiko Kakutani
- The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin
- The Business of Books by André Schiffrin
- In Praise of Good Bookstores by Jeff Deutsch
- The Art of Libromancy by Josh Cook
- The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
- Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop by Alba Donati
- Shelf Life by Michael Robb

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

#ShowMeYourKnits WIP edition! There is only one WIP at the moment and it is the Peace by Piece blanket (www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...) for my best friend. I have about a third of the squares done and I've started joining them together! 🧶

An in-progress checkered square with pink and grey yarn, on a rug with a blue and white porcelain teapot and cup of tea

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I haven't read any of the @womensprize.bsky.social for Non-Fiction longlistees and that makes me so excited! I can't wait to dive in to such an array of subjects. Join me on @thestorygraph.com as we read our way through the 2025 books app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...

The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 longlisted books spine out in a row: Autocracy, Inc by Anne Applebaum, Embers of the Hands BT Eleanor Barraclough, The Eagle and the Hart by Helen Castor, A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry, The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke, Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton, Ootlin by Jenni Fagan, Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller, Agent Zo by Clare Mulley, By the Fire We Carry by Rebecca Nagle, Wild Thing by Sue Prideaux, What the Wild Sea Can Be by Helen Scales, The Peepshow by Kate Summerscale, Sister in Law by Harriet Wistrich, Tracker by Alexis Wright, and Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang

A reading checklist for this year's Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist

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Zoë @readabilitea.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Dipped my toe into #tarot in 2024 and now I'm looking forward to exploring it more in 2025 ✨️ #tarotsky

My first tarot deck, Everyday Tarot, on a shelf in front of my unread books shelf, and next to my blue handmade mug

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