Pattern: Heid Hunter by Kate Davies Designs Yarn: Quince and Co Chickadee in the Belize Colorway Needles: Size 3 Circs and Size 4 Circs and DPNs I’ve been doing Kate Davies’ book clubs for the past few years – ever since Making Light, which was just so perfectly timed. I love her essays, and I
I picked this book up right before Halloween, because it was so seasonally appropriate. No one wants to live at Castle Drax, including the Vexx family, its current tenants. It’s cold, and complete falling apart. So Lulu, the daughter of the current Count Vexx, is doing her best to fix the place up to sell
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This is the book I bought at Shakespeare and Co. in Paris. I was first drawn to the cover art. The book is a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the feminist book imprint Virago, so it’s a turnaround and celebration of a number of words that have been applied negatively to women. I have
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Progress on the DK/Sport 10 Stitch blanket continues. I had all the sport ends from G’s blanket that I want to make sure I cleared by the end of the year, so I took the end of the Moments sweater as an opporunity for clean up.
We had another (real) frost over Saturday night while we were gone. So the dahlias were definitely done. I normally front load my three days in a week in the office, but I stayed home Monday so I could bring them all inside. I’m glad I did – we’ve had a couple more frosty mornings
We made sure to see the most famous tidal Bay of Fundy site on our last full day in New Brunswick. We got to the park at peak low tide, and spent a good deal of time wandering around the beach. We reached the end (the site of the emergency shelter) right at the point
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This was our one rainy day, so we stayed close to Saint John. I’d love to have this as my local park – it’s quite walkable, but you can bring your car on the loop road, so we got in a decent amount of sight seeing before the rain got to be too much.
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