Coastal Maine Botanical Garden – Boothbay, ME
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Garden Notes
This weekend was all about positioning for next weekend. Well, maybe. See, normally, I can do my summer planting over Memorial Day weekend (the trigger other than date I look for is blooming iris). But it’s been cold this Spring. So much so that the gardening columnist in the local Sunday paper recommended waiting until
The Iron Tree – Cecilia Dart-Thornton
Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. Jarred grew up in the desert – raised by his mother, after his father disappeared, leaving only a broken promise to return, and an amulet for Jarred. He’s long wanted to know what became of his father, and so when some of his friends decide
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Knitting Notes
I finished chart #2 of the Evenstar shawl during the week (long enough ago that the above picture has two repeats of the beginning of chart #3). I’m really enjoying this pattern – it’s really well written, with any of the odd stitches really well explained so that they’re not hard to figure out. I’ve
Knitting Notes
I got through Chart 1 of the Evenstar shawl over the weekend. I’d started it with size 3 DPNS, and got about 15 rows in when I messed up. Fortunately, I’d been reconsidering my needle choice anyway, so I was able to restart it with size 4’s, and I’m much happier with those. There’s enough
Sewing Notes
So this weekend’s exciting development in sewing was bias binding tape! Which I’m not entirely sure I really installed correctly, but it does make a nice, neat armhole. I also started on the yoke of the shirt, which is rather gather-rific. And since the fabric is so sheer, it’s really gathery. I’ll admit to a
Book of Enchantments – Patricia C. Wrede
Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. This collection of short stories owes much to fairy tales – sometimes obviously, but other times a little less so. Some of my favorites include “The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn”, which has a rather amusing twist on the typical unicorn tale, “Cruel Sisters”,
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Sewing and Quilt Notes
So my original plan on Sunday was to work on the shirt I cut out about two weeks ago. I got all the way through step 2 (see, there are pre-gathers!), and saw that I hadn’t read the notions list, and therefore didn’t have single fold bias tape. So that didn’t last very long. Since
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Knitting Notes
So this is how much Berroco Ultra Alpaca I had left. I got two hexipuffs in, and realized I really had too much. So I detoured into some Ruffle Rib Baby socks, and still managed two hexipuffs beyond that.