Pattern: Lolo by Jared FloodYarn: Knitpicks Wool of the Andes Superwash in the Columbine Heather colorwayNeedles: Size 8 circs and 7 DPNs The construction of this hat is really neat – it’s knit flat, and then joined together at the back seam, with a little tiny bit of a join at the top in the […]
Read for Once Upon a Time X. Corie is the illegitimate daughter of a lord, but for most of her life has lived for each summer with that family. She adores her older sister Elisandra, who is engaged to marry Prince Bryan, who will one day be King. The story starts with Corie
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Read for the Once Upon a Time X Reading Challenge. (It’s become somewhat of a tradition to read a McKillip book for this challenge.) The boy called Rook was brought to the bards at Luly as a child, not remembering his own name, only that he had been born anew in the fire that
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I’m posting this a little late (so much to do last weekend), but it’s one of my favorite reading times of year again – my excuse to concentrate on all things magical in my TBR pile. Per usual, I’m doing Challenge the First, which is at least five books in the challenge categories of
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Finally, I’m done with the Knit Picks Stroll Merlot Heather yarn. I normally don’t like to do that many hexipuffs in one color, but I just needed to get rid of that yarn. It felt like it was going on forever, but it’s gone now!! That technically gets rid of all my unassigned
Yeah, so second day of Spring this year, it snowed. Have I mentioned the daffodils are actually budding? (See the third picture above.) It’s gone now, but it was definitely a moment of “Really?”.
Librarything Early Reviewers book This book tells the stories of eight women composers, all the way back to the Renaissance Medici court. I had previously only heard of two of them, which is one of the points of the book, and is also sad. I minored in music in college (something I am using
Sounds and Sweet Airs – Anna Beer Read More »
Pattern: Starshower by Hilary Smith CallisYarn: Tess’ Designer Yarns Peruvian sock in the Seabreeze colorwayNeedles: Size 7 circs The construction of this cowl is really interesting. It starts flat, and is eventually joined to be knit in the round. Once in the round, the main pattern repeat is more easily done on the
Pattern: Siksak by Marja SuomelaYarn: Patternworks Bretton Heathers and Reyholds Sea WoolNeedles: Size 3 and 4 circs and Size 4 DPNs This is a pretty cool pattern – it’s actually incredibly simple, but looks really complex, compared to the effort. And it’s a great stash buster. I’d definitely make it again.
Had the day off today, so finally has some time to make a gift bag for Roger bear. And since I had the machine out, I did a couple more gift bags for the knitwear stash.
