Knitting Notes
Here’s the total of what I have after making this year’s hexipuffs. Still not enough to make a blanket, but I’m getting there, slowly by surely.
The Prophet of Yonwood – Jeanne Duprau
In this prequel to the City of Ember, a girl named Nickie has come to the small North Carolina town of Yonwood with her aunt so that they can get her great-grandfather’s house ready to sell. At the same time, the United States is teetering at the end of war with an unnamed enemy (it’s
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Netherworld – Lisa Morton
Lady Diana Furnaval’s husband, William, is the last in the line of gatekeepers. It turns out the family estate has a gate into another realm on it, and William’s family has kept the worst of what can come from the gate from effecting other people. There are of course other gates, and when William is
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Miss Buncle’s Book – D. E. Stevenson
Miss Buncle is a spinster in the little English village of Silverstream – the kind of person that everyone knows, and secretly pities, because she seems to have such a drab life. But Miss Buncle has a secret – she’s written a book, recasting Silverstream as the village of Copperfield, and showcasing all of the
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French Women for All Seasons – Mireille Guiliano
I read French Women Don’t Get Fat ages ago (definitely pre-blog), and I don’t remember having any strong feeling about it either way. It was basically a treatise on French attitudes toward food, and trying to apply that to our American eating habits. So, when I found a used copy of this book, the follow
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Knitting Notes
The Three Irish Girls Beckon Merino Auspicious is gone. I meant to make a pair of socks to go with the first hat, but didn’t have enough yarn, so ended up making another hat. I was just able to eek out one hexipuff with what was left. One of my coworkers commissioned
Quilt Notes
The perfect activity when you’re stuck inside during a Sunday snow storm? Quilt binding! So, I just have to sew that down to the back of the quit, and this one is done!
The Warrior Queens – Antonia Fraser
An interesting study of various Warrior Queens as an archetype through time, centering on Boudicea (who the author separates in Boudicea – the legendary figure, and Boudica – the historical figure). Boudicea was the Queen of the British Iceni tribe, who rose up against the Romans after they scourged her, and raped her daughters. That
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Knitting Notes
I have a little more sock yarn using up going on – here’s the Auspicious Beckon Merino in the Cable Baby hat pattern by Pamela W. Allen. I have some matching socks on the needles now, to make another gift set.
Quilting Notes
Tried some paper piecing yesterday. Aside from my fundamental lack of forward vision (I totally placed the colored pieces wrong to actually achieve a Circle of Flying Geese), I really enjoyed the actual technique. I just have to pay attention up front to how I lay things out next time…