I’m doing Kristi Kapur’s Barrow socks, which I got for my first installment of the Three Irish Girls sock yarn club way back when. The pattern calls for knitting on two circs, so I’d been holding it in reserve for when I wanted to try circs. Since doing that magic loop class a couple months […]
In the spirit of Clean Out Megan’s Knitting Basket April, I have two project reports. Above, is how far I got on the Cabled Swing Cardi by Norah Gaughan, from The Knitter’s Book of Yarn. That would be all the piecing, with only the neckline left to do. And it doesn’t fit. It’s way too
Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Peri has lost both her parents to the Sea – her father when he left one morning in his fishing boat, and her mother, because she has never stopped waiting for Peri’s father to come home, and no longer lives in quite the same world
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Pattern: Haruha Scarf by Mari MuinonenYarn: Malabrigo sock in the Solis colorwayNeedles: Size 7 I’ll admit, when I first managed to cut through this skein of Malabrigo sock while opening the package, I didn’t think I’d ever manage to use it in a project. I’m pleasantly surprised how well this scarf came out. There are
Our trip in yesterday’s lovely weather was to Vaughn Woods State Park, which is next to Hamilton House, one of my favorite places in Southern Maine. (They were once the same property. While the state was happy to take the Woods from the Vaughn Family estate, they didn’t want the upkeep on Hamilton House, so
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV and 2010 YA Reading Challenges. Enna Burning is the second book in Shannon Hale’s Bayern series, picking up after the events of The Goose Girl. The Goose Girl is based on the fairy tale, but the books after it continue with the stories of some of the
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Pattern: Lilac Socks by Jeanie TownsendYarn: Knitpicks Stroll in the Dusk ColorwayNeedles: Size 2 DPNs My second pair of March Sockdown socks are done! Unfortunately, these socks suffered in comparison to the other socks I did for March, both patternwise and yarnwise. I actually feel a little bad about that, because this is a good
I spent a rather raw Saturday morning Down East, getting my first look at the camp my father and C are building on Donnell Pond (in the romantically named T9-SD Township). This is not a beach vacation spot, it’s built on the slope of a glacial drop, with an absolutely fascinating array of boulders strewn
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Read for the 2010 Complete Booker Challenge. Black Swan Green is a year in the life of Jason Taylor, a thirteen-year-old growing up in a small Worcestershire village in the early 80s. I really enjoyed this book. It had a very different tone than the other book I’d read by this author (Cloud Atlas), though
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