Pattern: Electric Sheep by Beata Jezek Yarn: Sundara Yarn Extra Fine DK Silky Merino in the Night Skies Gradient colorway Needles: Size 8 Circs I finally got around to blocking the Electric Sheep shawl. It didn’t really need the blocking to open up the pattern – it was mainly to smooth out some lumps. I […]
Indoor seeds are started. It’s a smaller amount this year, due to the winter sowing. (I accepted the risk of having to buy plants if the winter sowing fails.) The snowpack is gone, but it’s not terribly warm yet. The winter sown seeds have not done anything yet, but the online group I’m in has
The first Sonsie hat is done. This is the slouch size. I really enjoyed the pattern, and I have enough yarn left, I figure I might as well knock out the beanie as well, while I’m at it. This really is fun pattern – very well written.
This books starts with an older couple living an old England shrouded in mist and forgetting. They’d like to venture to see their son, but they can barely remember why he left, and if they should go. They’re finally able to push through the mists enough to set out on their journey, and they encounter
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The snow pack is rapidly decreasing. We were hoping for a walk at Two Lights yesterday – I would put money on the main path there being clear, but their front entrance is blocked. It looks like they’re redoing the entrance road (the entry kiosk is completely gone at the moment). Better now than later,
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The Trisha sweater is going well. Which means I’m past the interesting bits in the yoke, and have moved into the endless stockinette portion of the body. What is cool about this is that it’s technically reverse stockinette, but the designer used short rows to turn things around so you’re knitting it as regular stockinette.
This collection does have some overlap with her other short story collections (my review of another is here – I’ve read another beyond this), but there is different work in here, so it’s worth getting. I really like the author’s voice – these are fairy tales retellings, or variations, or stories set in a fairy
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They have emerged from the snowbank! (The weather decided to markedly warm up last week. We got rain. The snow pack has dramatically shrunk.) Granted, they’re now encased in solid ice right under the covers, which isn’t great. It should be above freezing today, so I’m going to check them later to see if any
Lovely beach day today, though not the best for taking pictures. It was about 22 degrees, with a breeze – I’m not very interested in learning what the real feel was.
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