Here’s another technical re-read, from back in my high school days. It’s the story of Merlin, from childhood, to when he claims the baby Arthur from Uther Pendragon. In this series, Merlin is the son of the bard Taliesin and the Princess Charis of Atlantis, daughter of the Fisher King. He […]
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The next thing I cast on is firmly in the use up yarn! category. These are Leap! mitts, by Brooke Ramos. I’ve got three different types of KnitPicks Stroll, and a KnitPicks Palette in there. They all had fairly large amounts left, so I’m hoping to get them down to more
Pattern: Checkerboard Gansey Socks by Lisa KayYarn: Anzula Cloud in the Dusty Rose ColorwayNeedles: Size 2 DPNs You know, I don’t want to say anything bad about this pattern, because it’s really fine, but it really does confirm that I prefer top down socks to toe up socks. I don’t like the cast
Pattern: Brezel by Svetlana VolkovaYarn: Classic Elite Alpaca Lana D’Oro in the Ruby colorwayNeedles: Size 7 circs and DPNs We’ve started a bit of a tradition when the BF and I go to a yarn store together – he looks for yarn he likes so I can make him something. (So far, it’s been
Since the alpaca cowl I was making was so simple, I decided to cast on something else a little more complicated to go back and forth between. BF had admired the pattern I had made for his younger brother’s Christmas hat, so I cast on one for him, using the Classic Elite Lana
Pattern: a simple stockinette cowl, by meYarn: Twillingate Farm’s Alpaca yarnNeedles: Size 8 circs So I’d tried to make a hat out of this yarn, and the heavier weight yarn just didn’t work in a more formal pattern. So I frogged that, and went with a really simple cowl instead. I believe this
This is a great book- it’s a classic haunted house tale, with a wizard and a vampire thrown into the mix. Tony Foster is working as a PA with a Vancouver production company (filming a vampire tv show called Darkest Night that only a few on the crew know is a little more true to
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Here’s another technical reread, though I’m pretty sure my original read was back in high school. There’s also another book in the series, so I was having some weird déjà vu moments that ended up not panning out, because what I was remembering must happen in the next book. The books ends up
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This is a Lolo hat, by Jared Flood. I’m using the Twillingate Farms alpaca that L bought me. I have two skeins of that – one’s basically worsted weight, the other is fingering. I only have 50 yards of the worsted, and I really wasn’t able to find any patterns I
I’ve decided to do Cold Sheep for 2016 (from the LSG Group on Ravelry). The idea is to not buy new yarn for some set period of time in 2016 (with some allowed exceptions), and to knit from your existing stash. I’m going to attempt this for the whole year. My stash (see
