This is Wooly Wormhead’s Slable hat from the Twisted Wooly Toppers book that Brownie also came from. I’m using my other skein of Three Irish Girls Beckon Merino, this time in the Auspicious colorway. I was a little nervous about this pattern, as the body contains a lot of seed stitch, but it turns out […]
This book is billed as the sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle, but it actually takes a little while for Howl and Sophie to make an appearance. Instead, the main character is a young woman named Charmain, who has been drafted to mind her Great-Uncle’s house while he’s away being cured of some unnamed illness. Turns
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Pattern: Brownie by Woolly WormheadYarn: Classic Elite RenaissanceNeedles: Size 6 DPNs My Christmas knitting is done! And before Thanksgiving even! I really enjoyed this pattern. You start out knitting the brim flat, and then graft the ends together, and pick up stitches to get the crown. The spiral effect on that was
I had yesterday off, and since we had a lovely nor’easter going on, and my family’s Thanksgiving festivities are on Friday this year, I didn’t really have anything I had to do. So I did a lot of chores. Including some clean out the sewing basket things. I made the backing for the quilt
Here’s today’s project: a crib sized Yellow Brick Road quilt top from some sea themed fabrics I picked up a couple years ago. This is something like the fourth or fifth time I’ve used this pattern – it’s deceptively complex looking, but is actually just strip quilting. I took Carol Doak’s Mastering Foundation Paper Piecing
The large maple has finally dropped all its leaves, and I’ve cleared the last of the garden detritus out of the side garden. As much as it pains me to say this, I’m ready for winter.
Some of Georgette Heyer’s books have a certain air of authenticity of the time they’re set in. This is not one of them. Sir Gareth Ludlow is on the way to totally flub up a marriage proposal (the whys are not important. It’s immediately clear he and Lady Hester will eventually be engaged) when he
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I’ve got two projects going at the moment. The above is Woolly Wormhead’s Brownie Hat, which will complete my trifecta of hats for my older brother’s family. It’s a fun pattern so far. The brim is knit flat, and grafted together at the end, and I picked up the stitches for
Ok. I totally get why these books are the next big thing. There’s a love triangle, but it actually makes sense, so you’re not finding yourself rooting for the guy you know will lose. (Honestly, I don’t know who to root for.) There’s a revolution starting, and that also makes sense. And the heroine is
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Another sock yarn skein done. This was the Three Irish Girls Beckon Merino in the Silver Bay colorway. I’d gotten it through the yarn club, so I actually had about a skein in a half, because we’d gotten a bonus amount. I made another pair of Fallberry Mitts (love that pattern), and three more hexipuffs.
