I’m not entirely sure what to think of this book. We start in colonial India, where Gemma is out with her mother, and witnesses her death. There’s very clearly something very sinister going on, but Gemma and her family go back to England, where officially, her mother died from cholera. Gemma is shipped off to […]
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One of the real bummers about this Spring is that the state parks closest to me are closed, and have been since we started having to social distance. They’re some of my favorite places to go find the Spring forest ephemerals. I’ve really missed being able to go to my regular places. I feel
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Everything went outside yesterday to harden off. It decided to be 80 degrees, so it seemed the thing to do. It’s going back into the 50s and 60s again after our one day flirt with summer, with at least one night close to freezing, so it’ll probably be a full two weeks before I
The Circinus socks are out. That pattern relies on keeping track of where you are in the same chart, at four different starting points. And it was fine, until I was into the middle of the foot chart (an added complication), realized I’d screwed up, tried to tink back, and still couldn’t figure
Did my last bit of in house seed planting today – some runner beans, cucumbers and khuri squash, to give them a bit of a head start. It’s been so cold so far this Spring (we had snow last week!), they’ll probably need it.
My next project is Rich Ensor’s Circinus socks. I’m using Blue Moon Yarn Silky Sock in a yellow colorway, which is my Auntie B’s favorite color – guess who I’m making them for? The pattern is fun so far – it’s got a winding chart pattern around the leg which is fun to keep
Pattern: Laminaria by Elizabeth Freeman (shawlette size)Yarn: Tess’ Designer Yarns Superwash Merino Lace in the Maine Woods and Waters colorwayNeedles: Size 6 circs It always amazes me how lace starts out so small and plain looking, and blocks out to something amazing. I got all the way to the first border chart in this, and
This novella picks up immediately at the end of Penric’s Mission, where Penric had been sent on a covert mission to Cedonia, which had failed rather spectacularly. He’s now on the run with General Arisaydia, and his widowed sister Nikys. He’s decided to get them as far as Orbas, where Arisaydia believes he can find
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