Back on the last day of May, I cast on Anne Hanson’s Palimpsest Stole, using some Knitpicks Alpaca Cloud yarn (Horizon colorway) I’ve had in my stash for a while. I bought this pattern back in March 2011, and it’s a good thing I didn’t try it until now. It’s true lace, with the […]
Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Yeine’s mother had fled her life as the heir to the King of Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and gone north, where she had married Yeine’s father, ruler of the kingdom of Darr. Yeine had known little of her mother’s life, but when her mother mysteriously dies, Yeine is
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Claire and Sydney are sisters – both members of the Waverley family, which means something in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Claire learned from their grandmother how to prepare dishes grown from the herbs in their garden, things like the honeysuckle wine they always bring to
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Yeah, I may have gone a little crazy with the Pookies this week. I finished the last of these new three last night. Let’s see, they involve three different kinds of Cascade 220, Knitpicks Merino Style, Mission Falls 1624 Wool, and the Quince and Company Lark I’m using for the faces. One of the Cascade
So this weekend, I finally got to try out the ice cream maker we found in the basement. (We were cleaning out the repository of junk left by former tenants in anticipation of the electronic recycling day they had at one of the local schools a month or so back. I saw this,
Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. I went a bit old-school in the folklore department for this next challenge selection. The Death of King Arthur is a thirteenth century French version of the last days of King Arthur (though the text itself claims it’s written by a Welshman). It’s the third book of
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Pattern: Pookies by Barbara Prime Yarn: Malabrigo Worsted in the Tuareg and Vaa colorways and Quince and Co. Lark in the Chanterelle colorway Needles: Size 6 DPNs I bought this pattern with the intention of working through my worsted weight leftovers, and I’ve fallen in love. My first go (a puppy) was finished in
Well, the iris are out, which means it’s plant whatever the heck else you need to time. I took Friday off so I could go to my favorite garden center (Broadway Gardens)- the haul from which is above. It was raining, so I foolishly thought it would be fairly empty. Ha! Granted, it was no
So the other part of this weekend’s epic drive was a stop at the McLaughlin Garden in South Paris. It’s known for its lilacs (the annual Lilac Festival is this weekend), and they’re all planted in a pretty densely packed woodland area that last weekend was bursting with spring ephemerals. Totally worth the trip. (They
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Pattern: Soledad by Annika BarrantiYarn: Knit Picks Merino Style in the Storm ColorwayNeedles: Size 4 and 5 DPNs and Circs I finished my Soledad sweater a little behind schedule, because I’d originally started out with the Age 2 size, and got almost all the way done with the neck when I found that what I
