Daystar had never been into the Enchanted Forest himself before, until the day a wizard showed up at the cottage he shares with his mother, and his mother unexpectedly destroys the wizard. Even more strangely, she heads into the Forest, comes back with a sword, hands that to Daystar, and tells him he […]
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Pattern: Roger Bear by Nice and KnitYarn: Classic Elite MountainTop Vista in Peat and Patternworks Bretton Heathers in color 9000Embroidery Floss: DMC 581 (eyes) and 3716 (nose)Needles: Size 5 DPNs and Size 8 circs I really love this pattern – easy, uses up scraps, and super cute. I’m definitely keeping this in my repertoire.
The civil war has caused people to flee from the city of Worcester. Word comes to the monks in Shrewsbury that two orphans of a noble family – a thirteen year old boy and his eighteen year old sister, a girl of remarkable beauty – along with their companion, a young nun, have been lost
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Getting those ornaments done put me into hexipuff territory for the Knitpicks Stroll Dusk and Pine, as well as some Knit Picks Palette in Silver (since I had the right needles out). Love knocking three yarns off the stash page…
Pattern: Mini Hats and Mitts by Anna NikipirowiczYarn: Twillingate Farm Alpaca, Knit Picks Stroll in the Merlot Heather, Pine and Dusk colorways and Anzula Cloud in the Dusty Rose colorwayNeedles: Size 3 circs and DPNs I moved on to this pattern because some of the options were already in the round, and others could be
Here’s another book in Lackey’s Elemental Magic books, which are all based on fairy tales, but set in the turn of last century. This one is based on “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”. Katie Langford is a circus acrobat and dancer. When her parents perished in a terrible fire, in the haze
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Ok, here we have Christmas ornaments, part two – the continual effort to get some of my sock yarn down to hexipuff levels of leftovers. This is Mini Mits and Hats by Anna Nikipirowicz, and some of the patterns are actually in the round, or could easily be adapted to that. Definitely more my
Pretty early on in his career, Miles Vorkosigan happened into a mercenary army (long story), and created the character of Admiral Miles Naismith to head that army. They ended up becoming covert operatives of the Barrayaran intelligence service (so covert that most of the army doesn’t know who their true employers are), but
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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
