Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. The thing that marks my favorite fantasy worlds is an interesting take on their mythology, or founding magical systems. The Inheritance Trilogy (this being the second book) has that in spades. In the first book (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms), we’re introduced to a world where […]
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I don’t normally review guidebooks, even though I do often read them more or less cover to cover, but I made an exception in this case, because this book really seemed to be written for me. It’s all about gardens – public squares, larger gardens, or even gardens attached to houses that you would never
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This weekend was all about positioning for next weekend. Well, maybe. See, normally, I can do my summer planting over Memorial Day weekend (the trigger other than date I look for is blooming iris). But it’s been cold this Spring. So much so that the gardening columnist in the local Sunday paper recommended waiting until
Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. Jarred grew up in the desert – raised by his mother, after his father disappeared, leaving only a broken promise to return, and an amulet for Jarred. He’s long wanted to know what became of his father, and so when some of his friends decide
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I finished chart #2 of the Evenstar shawl during the week (long enough ago that the above picture has two repeats of the beginning of chart #3). I’m really enjoying this pattern – it’s really well written, with any of the odd stitches really well explained so that they’re not hard to figure out. I’ve
I got through Chart 1 of the Evenstar shawl over the weekend. I’d started it with size 3 DPNS, and got about 15 rows in when I messed up. Fortunately, I’d been reconsidering my needle choice anyway, so I was able to restart it with size 4’s, and I’m much happier with those. There’s enough
So this weekend’s exciting development in sewing was bias binding tape! Which I’m not entirely sure I really installed correctly, but it does make a nice, neat armhole. I also started on the yoke of the shirt, which is rather gather-rific. And since the fabric is so sheer, it’s really gathery. I’ll admit to a
Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. This collection of short stories owes much to fairy tales – sometimes obviously, but other times a little less so. Some of my favorites include “The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn”, which has a rather amusing twist on the typical unicorn tale, “Cruel Sisters”,
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