It was actually a couple weeks ago that I technically completed my reading challenges, but I’m just now getting around to recording them. I did cut back a little bit this year, and stuck to mostly broad stroke challenges that covered multiple genres within a more specific subject. This did go pretty well, and let […]
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After the events of the last book in China, Temeraire and Laurence, and the rest of Temeraire’s crew, receive orders to travel immediately to Istanbul. The British government has bought three dragon eggs there, and Temeraire’s crew are to escort them back to England. They’re forced to do an overland journey to Istanbul (which is
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Pattern: Live Oak Shawlette by Romi Hill from the Fall 2011 KnitsceneYarn: MadelineTosh Tosh Sock in the Fiord colorwayNeedles: Size 5 circs I blocked the Live Oak Shawlette this weekend, partially because I realized that 2011 is rapidly drawing to a close, and since I finished it in 2011, I want pictures of it in
Here’s the thing about me and Charles de Lint – I almost always start one of his books a little ho-hum about the story, wondering if it was really worth picking up – and then bam – something clicks, the plot takes off, and I’m hooked until the end. This book was one of those
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Here’s the second part of L’s gift – overalls from the same Burda pattern as the dress I made. They’re done in a dark lavender thin wale corduroy (which is terribly lit in the picture now that I can’t often take pictures during daylight hours). It was definitely interesting putting this together – I’ve never
Pattern: Fallberry by Anne Hanson, from the Winter 2011 KnittyYarn: Collinette Jitterbug in the Copper Beech colorwayNeedles: Size 3 DPNs I love mitts. They’re so incredibly fast! This is one of the two pair I’m making for Christmas gifts for the women of BF’s family. I’m thinking these will probably go to his mother. The
Part 1 of my niece’s Christmas present is done: this is the bibbed dress pattern from Burda 9772, which I did in a cute patterned flannel, in the smallest size (six months). This was a lot of fun to make – it’s got facing pieces, which I’d never done before, and I finally got interfacing
We were up shopping in Freeport yesterday, and manage to stay after dark, so were able to see the Christmas lights. (The picture is above is from the plaza in front of the main L.L. Bean store.) The lights are done by Pandora LaCasse, who now does holiday lights for a whole bunch of places
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Annis Wychwood is 29. She’s beautiful, and has plenty of her own money, and she’s resolutely single. Plenty of men want her, but she hasn’t found a man that she’s willing to marry. So, she’s set up her own house in Bath, where she’s carved out a comfortable life for herself. One fateful day, on
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My Live Oak Shawlette is done. It’s a super easy, fast pattern, with enough interest and change to keep it from being boring (yes, even in the stockinette sections). I do still need to block it, so a final post is forth coming. I used up the MadelineTosh yarn by making more hexipuffs. Knocked those