Pattern: Traveling Woman Shawl by Liz AbinanteYarn: Claudia’s Handpainted 55 Fingering Silk, in the Marooned colorwayNeedles: size 6 When I cast this little shawl on on Sunday, I certainly didn’t think I’d be done with it in under a week. Granted, I did have the week off, but I didn’t work on it every much […]
Read for the RIP IV and Vampire Reading Challenges. This book is best summed up as: Henry and Mike fight over Vicki, now with the undead! Undead joking aside, this book was clearly the source material whenever anyone on the TV show needed to deal with Henry and Mike’s prickly relationship, and it’s great fun.
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Somewhat to my chagrin, I finally made it out to Mackworth Island, for the first time this year. I’ve therefore missed the flowers and the warm breezes, but it’s still lovely out there in the Fall, and today was an extremely lovely day. I should preface my remarks about the above pictures by mentioning how
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This reading challenge immediately caught my eye. I have a number of classics in my reading queue, and it seemed like the perfect excuse to dust off that portion of my virtual TBR pile. The challenge is to read just one book. (There’s a higher level to read four books, but I tend to read
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I think I only lasted a grand total of 24 hours on the enjoying having only finished projects thing. Yesterday evening was cold and rainy/snowy, and my hands were itching for some more knitting. So I cast on a Traveling Woman shawl with the Claudia’s Hand Painted Silk yarn I bought last time I was
Pattern: Asherton Reversible ScarfYarn: Knit Pick’s Wool of the Andes Kettled Dyed, in the Auburn colorwayNeedles: size 8 I made this scarf for the Red Scarf Project. It’s a nice, unisex pattern. I did manage to fudge the row 11-14 and 33-36 repeats so it’s not quite as geometric looking as it should be, but
Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. Jenny is a thirteen-year-old from New York City whose world is turned upside down when her mother marries an Englishman. The next thing she knows, she and her mother have moved to a farm in Dorset, and she’s acquired two new step-brothers. What follows is a combination ghost
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Pattern: Rivergrass by Wendy JohnsonYarn: Sundara sock in the Pine over Gold colorwayNeedles: 1.5 DPNs I’ve finished my first socks for the current cycle of Sockdown, using one of the pattern I received from the Sock Yarnista club. This was my second pair of toe up socks, and the short row heel is definitely getting
I’m not done with my Sockdown September socks yet, and this is why. I had my ball winder out on Thursday to rewind some sock yarn scraps I was sending out, and in a fit of what I now know to be stunning naivete, I decided it was time to finally wind the Malabrigo sock
Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. In Cambridge, during the reign of Henry II, four children have been murdered. The town’s Jews have been wrongly accused of the murders. They’ve been given sanctuary by the sheriff, and are now trapped in the castle under threat of death by the townspeople outside. So Henry sends
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