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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Remember those seeds I winter sowed and left out on the back deck before it started snowing? I have no idea how they’re doing – they’re buried under the above. I have to assume nothing has sprouted, because it’s been cold. Like, we had a frozen pipe (that fortunately didn’t burst) one morning cold. We
This story is about Jennifer Talldeer, a private investigator in Oklahoma, who also happens to be an Osage shaman. Her specialty is finding Native American artifacts and returning them to their original owners. In this story, she’s hired by an insurance company after a construction project goes disastrously wrong, and the developer tries to frame
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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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