Knitting Notes
The Piccolo Pyrus cowl is done. It’ll definitely benefit from some blocking, so this isn’t the final post, but I can at least count the yarn towards my August stash busting totals.
Two Lights State Park – Cape Elizabeth, ME
The remnants of hurricane Erin passed offshore this week – these pictures are about two hours before high tide. She’s no longer a hurricane, and is hundreds of miles away at this point, but still pretty impressive. We could feel the spray up on the path.
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Knitting Notes
Pattern: Colorful Half and Half Washcloths by Purl Soho Yarn: Knitpicks Lindy Chain in the Harbor, Silver and Mist colorways Needles: Size 4 circs Welcome to my stash busting extravaganza! I got rid of the Silver and Mist yarn entirely, and only have a small amount of Harbor left. I enjoyed this pattern – it’s
Weekly Wildflowers – Kennebunk Plains Preserve, Kennebunk, ME
Very droughty conditions here in Southern Maine. Really showing it here on the plains, since they’re on the drier side normally anyway. There were a lot of stressed plants on our walk.
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Libriomancer – Jim C. Hines
This is a fun premise – some people have the ability to reach into books and pull thing out from them. They have to be popular books – the amount of reading and energy people are putting into them helps the magic. Johannes Gutenberg (yes, that Gutenberg) has joined them all into an organization to
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Into the Riverlands – Nghi Vo
Cleric Chih and their bird Amazing Brilliant are back, traveling to collect stories. In this tale, they’ve ventured into the Riverlands, where they encounter two young women travelling, and decide to join forces. They’re ambushed, which is when Chih discovers that one of the young women is a martial arts master. It’s at this point
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The Masquerades of Spring – Ben Aaronovitch
I loved this story. It’s back in the jazz age, so we get a young Thomas Nightingale, which was a lot of fun. But the real hero of this story is the narrator – Augustus Berrycloth-Young. He’s a graduate of the same school as Nightingale, but was only ever going to be a middling magician.
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