First two yarns of 2025 are used up – these hexipuffs are the rest of the The Alpaca Yarn Co. Paca-Peds and Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers Cheshire Cat yarns I just made hats with. It was nice to get some yarn struck out of my list – I sat on all my ends last […]
This series is a supposed look into Jane Austen’s diaries, theoretically finding inspirations for various characters and locations in her books. This book finds Jane, her mother and her sister in the Peak District, near Chatsworth House. If you’ve seen the 2005 Pride and Prejudice, Chatsworth was used as Pemberley, and it is considered to
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Pattern: Allerton Hat by Wooly Wormhead Yarn: The Alpaca Yarn Co. Paca-Peds in the Stardust colorway Needles: Size 1.5 DPNs This is a cute pattern – and has enough going on to keep it interesting, even though it’s fundamentally a garter stitch tube. And can I say how gratifying it was to do grafting in
This is a fun book. Delaney and her sisters are the bulk of the police force in the small town of Ordinary, Oregon. What a good deal of the regular townsfolk don’t know is that Ordinary is a popular spot for the gods to come for a vacation from their regular lives, and Delaney’s family
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We were in VT last weekend, visiting my in laws. They live Bennington, which is in the corner of the state that borders Massachusetts and New York. The town right over the border in MA is Williamstown, home of Williams College. It also happens to have one of my favorite coffee shops (Tunnel City), so
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This is the fifth book in the All Souls series. Book number four was about Marcus and Phoebe, and was a fairly stand alone story, but this book is obviously the beginning of a whole new story arc. Matthew and Diana’s twins are approaching seven, which is the age that witches are traditionally tested for
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Luzia starts out this story as a scullion in Madrid. She has questionable heritage – this is set in the time of the Inquisition, and Luzia’s family has kept to their Jewish heritage. But even more than that, she has powers. When her mistress discovers her milagritos, Luzia’s secret is out in the open, and
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Pattern: Hadleigh by Wooly Wormhead Yarn: Wonderland Yarns & Frabjous Fibers Cheshire Cat in the Camelot colorway Needles: 2.5 Circs and DPNs This was a fun pattern – not too hard, but definitely varied enough to be interesting. I’m in use up yarn mode right now. Still enjoy working with this yarn, and the book
The Electric Sheep shawl is done, but it still needs blocking. It totally illustrates my love of the color palette in the yarn I used for this – I had a hard time finding a surface in the house that it really contrasting with. For my next project, I’m going for some stash reduction. This
Hey, look! It’s January, and I’m doing a garden post! I’m giving winter sowing a try this year. Got the seeds in just in time to finally get some snow on the ground again. This method is not meant to have the seeds sprout immediately, it’s to make them hardier when they do sprout. I’m