Pattern: Embossed Leave Socks from Interweave Favorite SocksYarn: Knit Pick’s Imagination in the Frog Prince colorwayNeedles: size 2 My second pair of Embossed Leaves socks are done. I really like this pattern – it flies off the needles and looks lovely without being very difficult. (I also now understand the purpose of the seemingly crazy […]
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was always my favorite of the Chronicles of Narnia. It’s a lovely story of a voyage into the unknown. We begin the story with Edmund and Lucy Pevensie having been sent off to stay with relatives while their parents and sister Susan tour America, and their older brother Peter
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I’ve gotten to the beginning of the heel flap on my Moonflower socks. The pattern is a very simple repeat, and quite enjoyable, and I really like the yarn. Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly clear that by using size 0 needles, I’m producing a sock that won’t even fit a midget. At first, it seemed like
Pattern: Koolhaas Hat (Interweave Holiday 2007)Yarn: Malabrigo Worsted in the Tuareg colorwayNeedles: size 6 and 8 I’m going to nickname this one the vaguely Koolhaas hat, because the pattern just didn’t want to work for me as written. Fortunately, the texture of this yarn is really forgiving, and it seemed to work out well in
Read for the TBR Lite Challenge. Apparently, at the tale end of WWII, there was a fleeting idea to allow Jewish refugees to settle in Alaska. It was indeed a fleeting footnote to history kind of idea, but Michael Chabon took it, ran with it, and the result is this book, an alternate history, Jewish,
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My new swift works! I spent a lovely, leisurely time winding my Three Irish Girls Carys Blue Faced Leicester yarn, which is practically lace weight it’s so skinny, and I didn’t feel the need to tear my hair out once. I’m repressing a serious urge to take all of my stashed skeined yarn and wind
Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. I first heard of this book in 1999, when it came out, and was compared to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. It’s set in the same time period as those books, but takes place on the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker (Madeline Island) in Lake Superior, a
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I had a bit of a knitting binge this weekend: Pattern: Garter Yoke Baby CardiYarn: Dalegarn FalkNeedles: Size 4 I finished this off on Saturday after purchasing buttons. I’d already decided to only put buttons on the yoke, rather than the entire placket, which is probably a good thing, as I wasn’t overly fond of
I’m very nearly done with the garter yoke baby cardi. I was holding off finishing until today, so I could pick up buttons and have them there for size comparison as I put on the buttonhole band. Once I do that and weave in some ends, I’m done. (Of course, I’ve been working my butt
Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. I didn’t hate this book. But I can definitely see why a lot of people did. In the first three books, there was always some level of sacrifice going on. I mean, we’re dealing with humans, vampires and werewolves here. This kind of thing is not meant to go
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