2014 Books Read
Here’s the list for this year. I managed to hit 80, by the skin of my teeth. There were only two books this year I started and couldn’t find. They can be found here.
2014 Completed Knitting Projects
Here’s the final project wrap up for the year. Not too shabby, and I paired down a fair amount of my stash. I’m not sure yet what next year brings. I do like having something to do with my hands, but I don’t always have a reason to give away knitwear, so I’m thinking of
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2014 Books Started and Not Finished
1. The Windup Girl – Paolo BacigalupiThis is one of those scifi books that throws you straight into an advanced world with a lot of new tech, with weird names. In this case, apparently all of the food sources in the world have been overrun with disease, so you can make a ton of money
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Knitting Notes
Final cast on for the year: the Turbine hat by Wooly Wormhead, in the rest of the Malabrigo Rios Glazed Carrots yarn. I’m making the largest size – here’s hoping I have enough yarn leftover.
A Celtic Miscelleny – Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
This book is a collection of translations from all the Celtic languages, meant to give a flavor for Celtic literature. It’s most heavy on Irish, Scottish and Welsh, but does bring in a bit of Manx, Cornish and Breton. The stories are loosely grouped by subjects – some are general, like Nature, but there are
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Knitting Notes
Here’s the obligatory year end hexipuff post. Someday, I’ll have enough for a baby blanket. At least this year, I got in some different colors to break up the mostly blue and green monotony.
Sewing Notes
In the course of Christmas shopping, I managed to find my niece’s next birthday present. (Yep, that’s in August. I’m way ahead.) Here’s a bag in which to contain it.
Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park – Felton, California
Let’s face it, my camera couldn’t possibly do justice to these beauties, but it doesn’t mean I sure didn’t try! Henry Cowell is quite close to Santa Cruz (we’d actually intended to do it the same day as Wilder Ranch, but ran out of daylight when we were side tracked by downtown). It has a
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Wilder Ranch State Park – Santa Cruz, California
The day after Christmas, we decided to get some Pacific Ocean into the mix. Our original plan had been Ano Nuevo State Park, which has a colony of elephant seals. Because it’s breeding season, you have to go on a guided tour, and because we weren’t sure of the weather, by the time we could
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San Francisco, California
I really enjoyed San Francisco, even though we didn’t get to do as much of it as we could have hoped, and even if the traffic getting out of there was probably worse than Boston. Because we started out the morning at Tartine, we wondered around the Mission District, which was architecturally really cool, and
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