Our first home improvement project is done – we’ve had the house completely reinsulated. It was perhaps a bit crazy to get that done in January, but it made a noticeable difference even as they were just doing some of the preliminary sealing work before they got really serious about the actual insulation. (We got […]
My William Morris Snakeshead cross stitch is done. I thought this was going to take me a year. I’m pretty familiar with how much time I’ll spend doing things on the side at home. As with many other things, this was the year I’d be wrong with that estimate. This pattern had no back stitch,
And I’m back to the story of Penric – in this case, he and Desdemona are on the way back from a mission on behalf of the Duke of Orbas, when his ship is captured by pirates. By virtue of him looking like a weak scholar, he gets thrown in with the other vulnerable prisoners
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I’ve started a test knit. It’s a shawl. It’s in yarn that hasn’t been released yet, so I can’t say much about that. All I can really confirm is that it’s so far, so good.
This was a fun book. Catalina Baylor has been called in to investigate a murder – several houses have gone in together to try and reclaim an area of Houston nicknamed the Pit, and when one of the Primes dies, all the others must be investigated. And what Catalina uncovers could be catastrophic for the
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In an Eastern forest (it reads Russian, but if you read the notes, you’ll see it’s based on things the author brings in from her Ukrainian roots), live two sisters. Liba and Laya are Jewish, in a mixed village. When their father is summoned to his dying father’s side, they’re given surprising news – Liba
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The Swan Islands Ikat Indigo Beetroot is gone – hexipuffed away. I’ve actually gotten in on a test knit, but I’m waiting on the yarn for that, so in the meantime, I’m doing some Icy Seas ornaments out of Knit Picks Palette leftovers, to see if I can get rid of some of that. I’m
In an alternate Europe, magic is based on the ability to summon angels. In Ystara, something terrible happened, and their archangel has abandoned them. If any magic is used on the Ystarans, they either die of a plague, or turn into monsters. A century or so after this happened, in the neighboring kingdom of Sarance,
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Pattern: Bearly Bonnet by Pure StitchesYarn: Swan Island Ikat Collection Watercolors in the Indigo Beetroot colorwayNeedles: Size 2 and 3 circs and Size 3 DPNs Finally, a project done! It did feel really good to get this done and dusted. I’m hexi-puffing the rest of the yarn right now – I decided I
Here’s this year’s batch of seeds. I was really very good – I wanted to buy like three times that many, but I resisted. We’ll see how well that goes next year, once I get a better handle on what I’m dealing with with the new yard…
