This is fun book. Edith is a cleryman’s daughter in vaguely Victorian England. They’ve never known much about his childhood – he was sent off to boarding school very young, and never went home. So it’s a great suprise when a letter reaches them that his brother and his nephew have died, leaving him the […]
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I’ve faced the two sweaters that I dropped earlier this year because they had both pissed me off, in separate ways. The first was the Orbits sweater, the remains of which you see above. Unfortunately, there’s colorwork in the sleeves. And I knit sleeves with DPNs. And the tension on the floats was not good.
Elspeth is infected with magic, in a kingdom where that will get you killed. Sent off to live with her aunt and uncle, she’s kept away from court, but is drawn back in for the Equinox celebrations. The only official magic allowed are Providence Cards, created by the Shepherd King, who sought to protect the
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Pattern: Musselburgh Hat by Ysolda Teague Yarn: Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers Cheshire Cat in the Camelot colorway Needles: Size 3 circs and DPNs This is a great little pattern – very easy (which was exactly what I needed right now) and I think it’s going to be nice and warm (which is my holy
The garden is puttering along. I’ve had to pull out all but one of the zucchini, and the cucumber as well. But the flowers are doing nicely – the fourth dahlia is set to bloom. That leaves two that haven’t set buds yet, and the new one from this year (the pot on the bottom
