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readabilitea.bsky.social
Zoë
@readabilitea.bsky.social
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Bookseller with perpetually wonky glasses 📚 also into knitting and visible mending (she/her)

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#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
October 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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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
October 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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!
October 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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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
October 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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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
October 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I have ventured south of the border. Must be #KidsConf day!
Big Ben look resplendent in the morning September sun
September 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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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
September 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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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
September 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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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
August 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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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
August 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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
July 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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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"
July 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Today's only plan: finish #Katabasis 💫
A proof copy of Katabasis by R. F. Kuang held open on my lap with the pages towards my leg, as I'm sat on a wall on the beach
July 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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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
July 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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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
June 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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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.
June 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Some #VisibleMending efforts from yesterday 🧶
A coral shirt with a navy blue patch, attached with running stitches in unbleached cotton yarn A pair of striped Calvin Klein pyjamas with 2 tears. I attached patched of black and white checked cotton underneath by hand sewing around the tears, and then used my machine to stitch around the outer edges of the patches
June 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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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...
A stack of books on a cream mantelpiece, with a houseplant on the corner. The stack of books from top to bottom is: Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher (gifted by Pan Macmillan) A Life of One's Own by Marion Milner Dragonborn by Struan Murray (gifted by Puffin Books) The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown Ingrained by Callum Robinson The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ram (gifted by Bloomsbury) Modern Divination by Isa Agajanian The Illegals by Shaun Walker (gifted by Profile Books)
June 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Update: cable border finished! 🧶 #KnitSky
A hand holding the cable border of the beginnings of a kilt sock. Yarn is cream New Lanark DK
June 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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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. One half of the Peace by Piece blanket by Pattern Knits, made up of individual colourwork squares crocheted together. On a grey carpet background.
May 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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
May 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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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.
May 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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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
May 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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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
May 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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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
May 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM