So this time last year, it was all snow and all cold, all the time. I had a little PTSD coming into this winter, because things had gotten so bad, I couldn’t bear the idea of doing it all over again. Well, this year has been almost nothing like it. Now, we did […]
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Pattern: Christmas Ornaments by MillaMia SwedenYarn: Anzula Cloud in the Dusty Rose colorway, Knit Picks Palette in the Clarity colorway, and Knitpicks Stroll in the Merlot Heather, Pine and Dusk colorwaysNeedles: Size 2.5 circs The problem with this pattern is that they all involve seaming. I tried the Christmas tree ornament, and had a
In Moonflash, Kyreol and her friend Terje went on a journey to see what was beyond the Riverworld where they had grown up, and found that their simple land was part of a larger world with more advanced technology that allows them to travel to the stars. Kyreol stays there with her mother,
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In the last book of this trilogy (A Discovery of Witches), Diana Bishop had discovered that her witches’ powers had been locked up by her parents to keep her safe. Now that she’s married her one true vampire love (Matthew Clairmont), and all the other creatures of the world are after them for going
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I’ve got two separate projects going right now. The first is from this set of Christmas Ornaments, by MillaMia Sweden. They’re supposed to be for sport weight yarn, but I’m using them to wear down some of my larger scraps of fingering weight. (Which fortunately, are vaguely Christmas colored.)
Pattern: Quest for a Man by Laura NelkinYarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Tweed in the Prussian Heather colorwayNeedles: Size 7 DPNs and Size 6 and 7 circs I knit this hat twice. The whole point was that the original hat I made for my brother was too big. I’ve since made
I’d never given much thought to Shakespeare in translation – I mean, the thing about his work is his amazing use of the English language. You find lists of words that he pioneered in his work that we’re still using today. Heck, we’ve basically moved on from that particular form of
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Pattern: Leap! by Brooke RamosYarn: Knit Picks Stroll in the Dusk, Pine, and Merlot Heather colorways, and Knit Picks Palette in the Silver colorwayNeedles: Size 1.5 DPNs So these are my first pair of mitts with actual fingers – and I’ll admit, if I was doing these again, I’d make the fingers longer.
I was recently bemoaning the lack of photos on my blog – January is entirely books and knitting up until now. But, it is winter in New England. It’s not that I don’t go anywhere in the winter – it’s usually just things more like last weekend, where we went down to
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As a bit of a contrast to the Leap! mitts, I’ve also cast on yet another Quest men’s hat. I’d made one in a size large for my younger brother ages ago, but it was really too big, so he asked if he could get a smaller one. I like this pattern, and
