I read French Women Don’t Get Fat ages ago (definitely pre-blog), and I don’t remember having any strong feeling about it either way. It was basically a treatise on French attitudes toward food, and trying to apply that to our American eating habits. So, when I found a used copy of this book, the follow […]
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The Three Irish Girls Beckon Merino Auspicious is gone. I meant to make a pair of socks to go with the first hat, but didn’t have enough yarn, so ended up making another hat. I was just able to eek out one hexipuff with what was left. One of my coworkers commissioned
The perfect activity when you’re stuck inside during a Sunday snow storm? Quilt binding! So, I just have to sew that down to the back of the quit, and this one is done!
An interesting study of various Warrior Queens as an archetype through time, centering on Boudicea (who the author separates in Boudicea – the legendary figure, and Boudica – the historical figure). Boudicea was the Queen of the British Iceni tribe, who rose up against the Romans after they scourged her, and raped her daughters. That
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I have a little more sock yarn using up going on – here’s the Auspicious Beckon Merino in the Cable Baby hat pattern by Pamela W. Allen. I have some matching socks on the needles now, to make another gift set.
Tried some paper piecing yesterday. Aside from my fundamental lack of forward vision (I totally placed the colored pieces wrong to actually achieve a Circle of Flying Geese), I really enjoyed the actual technique. I just have to pay attention up front to how I lay things out next time…
Pattern: Slable by Wooly WormheadYarn: Three Irish Girls Beckon Merino in the Auspicious ColorwayNeedles: Size 3 and 4 Circs and 4 DPNs I really enjoyed this pattern – I was initially nervous because of all the seed stitch, but the cable breaks that up nicely. The ribbing at the bottom was actually the most boring
This is Wooly Wormhead’s Slable hat from the Twisted Wooly Toppers book that Brownie also came from. I’m using my other skein of Three Irish Girls Beckon Merino, this time in the Auspicious colorway. I was a little nervous about this pattern, as the body contains a lot of seed stitch, but it turns out
This book is billed as the sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle, but it actually takes a little while for Howl and Sophie to make an appearance. Instead, the main character is a young woman named Charmain, who has been drafted to mind her Great-Uncle’s house while he’s away being cured of some unnamed illness. Turns
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Pattern: Brownie by Woolly WormheadYarn: Classic Elite RenaissanceNeedles: Size 6 DPNs My Christmas knitting is done! And before Thanksgiving even! I really enjoyed this pattern. You start out knitting the brim flat, and then graft the ends together, and pick up stitches to get the crown. The spiral effect on that was
