Pattern: Fishies by Jackie ZieglerYarns: various DK and Worsted weightsNeedles: Size 3 DPNs Stash busting, part deaux! This is a fun little pattern. I’ve been able to use up a number of little ends of yarn that I probably wouldn’t otherwise have been able to use. These are stuffed with cotton, but if I can […]
Pattern: Hand Spring Fingerless Mitts by Micol DayYarn: Tess’s Designer Yarns Superwash Merino LaceNeedles: 1.5 DPNs Here’s another attempt at stash busting. I had a fair amount of this lace weight yarn left over, and when I found a mitt pattern that actually used lace weight, I had to try it. If
Alexia Maccon is back living with her mother and sisters after her husband has kicked her out of their house. There’s the small matter of her being pregnant, which shouldn’t be possible, since Lord Maccon is a werewolf. Alexia knows that he’s the father, but has to figure out how to convince him (and he
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It’s another snowy day, and I still had fabric sitting on top of my sewing kit for potential projects I’d mapped out back in December. So to gift bag sewing I went. I’ve done enough of these recently that I winged the cutting on these. And I gusseted some,
I had a little bit of time last week to finish off the binding my seaside quilt. Side bonus: it was lovely having an extra layer on my lap during the depths of the ridiculous cold we’ve been having. I probably should have finished this off in 2013, since I only had the binding to
Xylina is a Manzonite, but not a very good one. While her skills at magic are strong, she’s not much of a warrior, unlike her famous mother, who sadly passed away, leaving Xylina destitute. She’s reached the end of the time where she has to do the Challenge that will either confirm her as a
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I figured I’d start out the year using up some old yarn, so here are some Hexipuffs using my Claudia’s Fingering Handpainted Silk 55 yarn. I’d had it separate from the rest of fingering weight leftover stash since it has so much silk in it, but it occurred to me it would still be
In this latest book of The Keys to the Kingdom, Arthur is going after the fifth piece of the Will in Lady Friday’s realm in the Middle House. It’s basically anything having to do with printing, including a river of words where everyone has to wear clothes made of paper with moveable text to protect
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I don’t think I’ve done a state of the Tote of Shame post in a while. You’ll notice it’s a bookcase. Why call it the Tote of Shame, then? Because it started out a long time ago as a tote. And when I bought a new bedside table, and this became available, the tote was
Thanks to a spectacularly awesome Kindle Daily deal last week, between the Tote of Shame (3), and my Kindle (8), I’m sitting on a number of Georgette Heyer books I have yet to read. So when this challenge came through my Feedly feed, I had to jump on it. The idea is to read at
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