I actually cast on this Asherton Scarf a couple of weekends ago, but due to the heat wave, haven’t worked on it very much until recently. I’m using some kettle dyed Knit Picks Wool of the Andes, which I initially feared would be a bit too rough, but now that I’m a ways into things, […]
Read for LibraryThing Early Reviewer Books I have to admit that I requested this book through the LibraryThing Early Reviewer’s selection list because I saw the name Bill Bryson on the cover, and I’ve always enjoyed his books. I figured a new Bill Bryson book was worth checking out, and something about places off the
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Read for the Dream King Reading Challenge. Coraline is the story of Coraline Jones, who discovers a secret door in her new home that leads to a mirror version of reality where her Other Mother is waiting to welcome her. Naturally, all is not as it appears, and the adventure begins. I’m afraid that since
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Read for the Patricia A. McKillip Reading Challenge. “They said later that he rode into the village on a horse the color of buttermilk, but I saw him walk out of the wood. I was kneeling at the well; I had just lifted water to my lips. The well was one of the wood’s secrets:
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I’ve barely touched anything since I did my yearly planting back in June. Everything got more than enough (really too much) water with no intervention on my part. I also fortunately put down plenty of mulch in June, so despite all the water (and probably in some cases because of it), the weeds have remained
I’ve continued working on the leftover sock yarn stockings. If I really apply myself, I can complete three in one evening, though I don’t often have the time to really apply myself, so my average is about one and a half. It’s a nice easy pattern that I memorized around five stockings ago. I’ve got
Read for the TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenge. Cloud Atlas has a little bit of story for everyone. There’s the 19th century clerk on a ship in the South Pacific, an early 20th century aspiring composer trying to worm his way into the home and life a musical genius, a reporter from the 1970s investigating
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Pattern: Alpaca Sox Mini-Socks by Classic Elite YarnsYarn: Three Irish Girls Adorn sock in the Baltic Sea colorwayNeedles: 2.75 mm DPNs Pattern: Baby Socks by Lisa Henderson KnitsYarn: Three Irish Girls Adorn sock in the Baltic Sea colorwayNeedles: 1.5 DPNs I had a bit of a knitting spree since last night was a rainy night,
Pattern: Sock Yarn Baby HatYarn: Three Irish Girls Adorn sock yarn in the Baltic Sea colorwayNeedles: Size 2 DPNs My first experiment in sock yarn end usage is done. It was a pretty easy knit, if a bit boring by the end of the main stockinette tube. It looks like I have enough left of
Read for the TBR Lite 2009 Reading Challenge. A young man named Jack is sick of working in the clock-work factory and decides to make his fortune in the city. What he doesn’t realize is that the city is Toy City, where the vast majority of the population is toys, and the few humans are
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