This book is Sense and Sensibility for the modern age – sisters Annie and Miranda are accompanying their mother to a extended exile in Westport, Connecticut when their step-father dumps Betty for a much younger woman. Annie’s Edward is Frederick, famous author and brother to the much younger woman now shacked up with her step-father. […]
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Here’s my serious reading for the year – one of the first primary sourced histories written out of England. Bede was a monk who lived nearly his entire life between two monasteries in Northumberland, so there’s a decided religious slant to the narrative, but he’s very careful to give as well rounded a picture of
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Elm sock number one is done. I like this pattern – it’s got some cabled interest to it. It is a fairly long repeat, so it’s not really memorizable, but that’s ok.
I really like knitting, but you can only make so many lace shawls before you run out of places to use them, or people to give them away to. So I’ve been thinking about something else I could do during the evening, that I can do while sitting on the couch, watching not
I’ve been a little under the weather since last Friday (hence the dearth of posts that I’m now trying to slam in over this weekend). But the above was Monday night’s Swiss chard harvest. That’s right, Monday, November 23rd. Because it’s been a really warm Fall. Warm enough, that
The weather is just wacky. It’s so freaking warm. I mean look at the Swiss chard! Because it can survive a frost or two, it’s doing beautifully. So it’s made putting the garden to bed this year problematic. Some things are done – I pulled out the clematis yesterday, so that
I’ve had this book in the Tote of Shame ™ for a while – I think because I’d never read any of the author’s work before, so I really wasn’t sure to expect. So I’ve been passing it by because I never know if it’s going to fit whatever reading mood I’m in
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So, being at loose knit ends again, I’ve cast on some socks. Which will probably be going to my friend K. This is Cookie A’s Elm Socks, in Knit Picks Stroll in the Pine colorway. (I think I’ve actually had it so long it’s technically Essential Yarn in the Pine
Pattern: Multidirectional Diagonal Scarf by Karen BaumerYarn: Tess’s Designer Yarns Microfiber RibbonNeedles: Size 6 circs This is one of the few times I’ve seen a knit sample at a yarn store and said, you know, I really want to make exactly that. I’ve never knit before with this ribbon, but this particular skein
