Pattern: Roar Hat by Kate Oates Yarn: Ewingston Shetland Wool and Wing & A Prayer Farm Thelma & Louise DK Needles: Size 7 and 8 DPNs Stash busting continues! This is a cute little pattern, though I don’t love how the spikes get sewn on. If I make it again, I may try picking up
We had a frost on Tuesday night. I cut a bunch of dahlias to enjoy inside, and made my peace with things. And while I did have to scrape my car to go to work in the morning, temps must have hovered around 32 degrees, because everything’s still alive. That includes the basil (middle picture
Patterns: Moments by Rachel Illsley Yarn: BC Garn Bio Shetland GOTS in the Parma and Pink Lavender colorways Needles: Size 4 circs and Size 2.5 circs and DPNs This feels like the end an era. I started with this yarn back in December 2023, with the same designer’s Orbits pattern, which I ended up frogging
Artemisia is a nun in a European medieval sort of country. Here, magic brought on a terrible calamity that has brought in legions of the dead to prey on the living. The clergy have taken over from the king that brought on this terrible calamity, and are trained to kill these wraiths. Artemisia was possessed
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Robert (not his actual name – that’s four words and multiple syllables long, so he prefers Robert), has inherited his father’s dragon extermination business. He’d rather be doing anything else, but he has to put food on the table for his mother, brothers and sisters. These aren’t your large dragons of lore – more like
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Seokga is the fallen god of trickery, and Hani is the Scarlet Fox, a gumiho (nine-tailed fox who can take human form) once feared by men. They’re now both existing in the 1990’s in a Korean city. Seokga’s a detective, hunting the Unrulies in an attempt to get himself home, and Hani’s on his radar.
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A bit of a cheat, since this is a planted garden. But this the home of the organization formerly known as the New England Wildflower Society, so you know they’re natives.
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We hit here at a very high tide (it was a new moon yesterday), but I finally remembered to bring the correct footwear, so quite a few pictures were taken on a nice wade. While the Kennebec is tidal, this is far enough upstream that it’s no longer at all brackish, so the water was
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