Pattern: Bobcap by Mary KeenanYarn: Dalegarn FalkNeedles: Size 6 circs and DPNs I got paranoid and made the medium size, and I totally could have pulled off the large. So my primary aim, of using up this yarn, was not accomplished. Oh well. I at least got rid of the ends, and have […]
In this third Brother Cadfael book, a local landowner has given his estate to the Abbey, in exchange for them taking care of him and his wife for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately, on one of his first nights there, he is murdered, killed by one of Brother Cadfael’s potions, that is normally used
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Still trying to use up the Dalegarn Falk yarn. Here’s the Bobcat pattern by Mary Keenan. Which I have already messed up, so will be ripping out. I’m beginning to think this yarn is cursed.
I actually came to Mercedes Lackey’s books through the Tarma and Kethry books (I remember liking the covers), which are actually not so great a gateway. The first book (The Oathbound) isn’t really their first story – it’s a short story that appears in one of the Sword and Sorceress anthologies. I found these when
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Napoleon invades England! Obviously, at this point, the Temeraire novels have gone pretty far off the history of the actual Napoleonic wars, but that’s good, because they’d otherwise be way too predictable. In the last book, Laurence was sentenced to hang as a traitor, for bringing the cure to the dragon plague to the mainland
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Pattern: Hermione Hearts Ron by Christy AylesworthYarn: Classic Elite MountainTop Vista in the Wolf colorwayNeedles: Size 3 circs and size 4 circs and DPNs Finally, I’ve made it all the way through this pattern! Which I do really like, and will probably want to make again in a real sport weight yarn. I did
Why yes, those are six foot steel fence poles we had to sink into the ground and truss up like a Christmas ham to keep the crazy mutant cherry tomatoes from tipping over and colonizing the driveway…
Our wander through Georgetown culminated in a stroll up 31st Street to Dumbarton Oaks. (The stroll itself is a treat – what a gorgeous neighborhood.) There are two parts to this property, which is owned by Harvard: the house, now a museum and research library, and the garden. The museum is free, but the gardens
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This summer’s trip was to Washington DC. We built the trip around a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds concert, which meant we were crazy enough to go venturing into the craziest humidity zone known to man. (Ok, that’s the entire South, and I did live in Florida for a summer, and I really did
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