Here’s the gift bag I made to go with the sweater and hat. Still a work in progress with getting a ribbon sleeve that I like. I at least hemmed this one a little better, but a way to completely hem it only occurred to me after I had it totally sewn. So the next […]
Pattern: Tinker by Wooly WormheadYarn: Classic Elite Renaissance in the Cardinal colorwayNeedles: Size 7 circs This pattern is great! Super easy. You’re just knitting a tube and grafting the ends together. (It looks way better formed into hat shape.) This may become my go to worsted baby hat pattern.
The Coffee Bean Cardi being a gift, I’ve also cast on a hat to go with it. This is Tinker, by Wooly Wormhead, and I’m using more of the unending stash of Classic Elite Renaissance in Cardinal. This should actually be the last large scale project I can do with that yarn. After that, it’s
I don’t know what’s up with my tomatoes this year. My mother was just telling me how hers were pretty slow this year. Meanwhile, I’ve had to add a second tier to the cages to contain mine, and I pulled out the Swiss chard from between them because it was getting too shaded out (bearing
Pattern: Little Coffee Bean Cardigan by Elizabeth SmithYarn: Quince and Co Lark in the Bark colorway, Cascade 220 Heathers 9489 (red) and Quince and Co Osprey in the Peacock colorwayNeedles: Size 7 DPNs and Circs and Size 8 DPNs and Circs Here’s the Coffee Bean Cardi – all done. I’m pretty happy with it. I
Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding, but no money. When her father died, she was forced to live with her uncle, a cruel man who wants nothing to do with her, and whose sole efforts on her behalf are to engage her to a local mill owner. Lucy can’t see any ways
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This is the second book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, where we find Mendanbar, the King of the Enchanted Forest, in a bit of a pickle with the local wizards. In an attempt to enlist the help of the King of the Dragons, Mendanbar mets Kazul’s Princess, Cimorene, who is just about to go looking
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I was almost done with the Hermione Hearts Ron hat when I realized there was no way I had enough yarn. However, I had gone up a needle size to compensate for my tight knitting, and I was able to determine that the hat was plenty stretchy, so I went ahead and ripped it out,
I’d collected a number of Jane Austen knocks off a few years back, when they were especially popular, and I’m still working my way through that back log. While most were of Pride and Prejudice, this one is a take off of my second favorite Austen book – Persuasion. Set in the modern day, Annie
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Due to an ill timed tornado watch on Thursday evening, despite it being a holiday, I got up at my regular work time on the 4th so I could be at Maxwell’s Farm when they open at 8:00. The above was the fruits (pun intended, hardy har) of my labors. 13 pounds later. I was
