Next project, if I can pull it off in time (which I should be able to do), is to knit hats for the two BILs, in time for Christmas. I have two colorways of Classic Elite’s MountainTop Vista yarn that are perfect for manly hats. (It’s natural colored wool, and the two colors […]
Pattern: Elm Socks by Cookie A from The Knitter’s Book of SocksYarn: Knitpicks Stroll in the Pine colorwayNeedles: 1.5 DPNs The yearly pair of socks is done! This is a fairly easy Cookie A pattern, which means it’s still not basic (she tends to make you rotate through a couple different charts, with shifts
So Georgette Heyer’s books tend to fit certain themes – one of her favorites is when a noble, slightly older (but still single) gentleman finds a younger lady running away from home, and basically takes it upon himself to keep her safe. She’s never the object of his affection – there’s always some
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Peter Grant has just reached the end of his probationary period in the London Metropolitan Police. He wants to be a detective, but his superiors have pretty much decided he’s ripe for a desk job. But that changes the night that he’s given an exclusive eye witness account to a
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This book is Sense and Sensibility for the modern age – sisters Annie and Miranda are accompanying their mother to a extended exile in Westport, Connecticut when their step-father dumps Betty for a much younger woman. Annie’s Edward is Frederick, famous author and brother to the much younger woman now shacked up with her step-father.
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Here’s my serious reading for the year – one of the first primary sourced histories written out of England. Bede was a monk who lived nearly his entire life between two monasteries in Northumberland, so there’s a decided religious slant to the narrative, but he’s very careful to give as well rounded a picture of
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Elm sock number one is done. I like this pattern – it’s got some cabled interest to it. It is a fairly long repeat, so it’s not really memorizable, but that’s ok.
I really like knitting, but you can only make so many lace shawls before you run out of places to use them, or people to give them away to. So I’ve been thinking about something else I could do during the evening, that I can do while sitting on the couch, watching not
I’ve been a little under the weather since last Friday (hence the dearth of posts that I’m now trying to slam in over this weekend). But the above was Monday night’s Swiss chard harvest. That’s right, Monday, November 23rd. Because it’s been a really warm Fall. Warm enough, that
The weather is just wacky. It’s so freaking warm. I mean look at the Swiss chard! Because it can survive a frost or two, it’s doing beautifully. So it’s made putting the garden to bed this year problematic. Some things are done – I pulled out the clematis yesterday, so that
