Knitting Notes
I’m getting so close to the end of the fingering weight yarn scraps! Still have too much of the Knitpicks Stroll Merlot Heather and Anzula Cloud Dusty Rose to get into hexipuffs yet, so here are Tiny Selbumittens.
So, February…
Why yes, it is the last weekend in February, and my back yard is snow free. And I do have the following sprouting the side garden: It’s almost a little hard to believe last year happened…
Talking to Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede
Daystar had never been into the Enchanted Forest himself before, until the day a wizard showed up at the cottage he shares with his mother, and his mother unexpectedly destroys the wizard. Even more strangely, she heads into the Forest, comes back with a sword, hands that to Daystar, and tells him he
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Knitting Notes
Pattern: Roger Bear by Nice and KnitYarn: Classic Elite MountainTop Vista in Peat and Patternworks Bretton Heathers in color 9000Embroidery Floss: DMC 581 (eyes) and 3716 (nose)Needles: Size 5 DPNs and Size 8 circs I really love this pattern – easy, uses up scraps, and super cute. I’m definitely keeping this in my repertoire.
The Virgin in the Ice – Ellis Peters
The civil war has caused people to flee from the city of Worcester. Word comes to the monks in Shrewsbury that two orphans of a noble family – a thirteen year old boy and his eighteen year old sister, a girl of remarkable beauty – along with their companion, a young nun, have been lost
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Knitting Notes
Getting those ornaments done put me into hexipuff territory for the Knitpicks Stroll Dusk and Pine, as well as some Knit Picks Palette in Silver (since I had the right needles out). Love knocking three yarns off the stash page…
Knitting Notes
Pattern: Mini Hats and Mitts by Anna NikipirowiczYarn: Twillingate Farm Alpaca, Knit Picks Stroll in the Merlot Heather, Pine and Dusk colorways and Anzula Cloud in the Dusty Rose colorwayNeedles: Size 3 circs and DPNs I moved on to this pattern because some of the options were already in the round, and others could be
Steadfast – Mercedes Lackey
Here’s another book in Lackey’s Elemental Magic books, which are all based on fairy tales, but set in the turn of last century. This one is based on “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”. Katie Langford is a circus acrobat and dancer. When her parents perished in a terrible fire, in the haze
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Knitting Notes
Ok, here we have Christmas ornaments, part two – the continual effort to get some of my sock yarn down to hexipuff levels of leftovers. This is Mini Mits and Hats by Anna Nikipirowicz, and some of the patterns are actually in the round, or could easily be adapted to that. Definitely more my
Brothers in Arms – Lois McMaster Bujold
Pretty early on in his career, Miles Vorkosigan happened into a mercenary army (long story), and created the character of Admiral Miles Naismith to head that army. They ended up becoming covert operatives of the Barrayaran intelligence service (so covert that most of the army doesn’t know who their true employers are), but
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