Well, Fall definitely happened. We are no longer in the land of weirdly warm temps. I’ve been going out in my lunch hour and clearing out the back bed. The greens are still out, and I really need to de-strawberry everything, but I’m ready to get some seaweed, empty out the compost barrel, and straw […]
So that was an experience. This book has been out long enough that it’s really hard to avoid reading about it online. I’ve tried my best to stay deep spoiler free, but I’d already heard about the change in perspective (to a second person voice), and I had a pretty good idea of why things
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Pattern: Willow Branches Hat by Heather Anderson Yarn: Bare Naked Wools Targhee Tango Sport in the Apilado colorway and Quince & Co. Chickadee in the Belize colorway Needles: Size 4 and 5 circs and size 5 DPNs I have a gradient set of yarn I’ve been looking for a pattern for, and quite of few
Here are the garden beds on Monday, before our first frost. Hilariously, not as much changed after that night as I’d have thought it should. The zinnias and zucchini were toast – I pulled those out in the middle of the week. What is shocking is that the dahlias are still alive. The foliage and
This is the story of the first settlement of the Norse into the Scottish Orkney islands – told through the eyes of Eyvind, a Norse warrior, and Nessa, a Pictish princess. I love Marillier – her initial Sevenwaters trilogy has made me cry in each book. But I had a hard time with this book.
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Pattern: In Dream by Susan Pandorf Yarn: Shibui Knits Lunar Beads: Miyuki 8/o beads – black opaque Needles: Size 4 Circs I started this shawl in 2021, and had to let it hibernate. Something about row 37 kicked my butt several different times. I normally like charts for lace knitting, but I had to go
I hadn’t read the Dragonkin books when I started this series, which was fine initially. But now that those characters have been dragged into this series, you probably need to have read those to fully get any of the future books. (I’ve now read the first three of the Dragonkin books, so I at least
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Pattern: Iola Hat by Triona MurphyYarn: Atlantic Coast Yarns Shannon DKNeedles: Size 6 circs and DPNs I really wanted a quick project after working on the In Dream shawl for so long, so I went for a hat. Which I promptly managed to flub up at the crown, so I basically knit this twice. (I
The last of this year’s dahlias has managed to bloom. In the third week of October. We’ll ignore the fact that by all rights, we should have had our first frost ages ago, and this plant would have been toast. This one was a happy surprise. It had come in a set – Lady Darlene
This is a nice, cozy story. Fin is the new cook at the royal palace – he’s incredibly prickly and chases pretty much everyone out of the kitchen on day one. As we follow along the story, we find out it’s because he’s a house witch – and regular witches consider him defective. So, he’s
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