Nutkin sock number 1 is done. I even managed to do the short row toe using the actual pattern method, instead of resorting back to the wrap instructions I’d had to use for the heel. I did have a few too many stitches when I was done, but it was nothing I couldn’t decrease into […]
I’m done with the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge! I believe this was the fifth challenge I actually signed up for this year, but it’s the first I’ve finished. I’m feeling quite accomplished with that. I did end up changing my list a bit. The original list was: Anansi Boys – Neil GaimanThe NibelungenliedHowl’s
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Read for the Once Upon a Time II Reading Challenge I decided I needed to read this book after catching the movie version again recently on Cartoon Network. I think I may have read it before long ago, but I’m not sure if that sense of familiarity is from a prior reading, or having seen
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The Bestiary is the tale of Xeno Atlas, a boy who has always been surrounded by people with an affinity for animals, and who grows up and takes up the quest to find the Caravan Bestiary, a book that records the animals that Noah did not include on the ark. Xeno definitely doesn’t live a
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A mere five frogs later, and I have finally conquered the short row heel! I’m so excited by this, it’s not even funny. I’m still can’t quite wrap my head around the whole concept, but I definitely know that the wrap method is my current preferred method. Maybe once I’ve done it a few more
My iris trifecta is complete. The Siberian iris are out and blooming. I do need to relocate these this year. They’re getting a little overrun by the bushes that used to be much further back when I first planted them where they are. Fortunately, they’re in a pot sunk in the ground, so they’ll be
The Sitcom Chic sweater is done! (A picture will be forthcoming. It’s already 82 degrees outside, and I’m not really in the mood to put on a sweater at the moment.) I’m overall pretty pleased with this as a first sweater. It’ll probably be a wear around the house sweater, as there are some irregularities
I’ve got a lot of almost ready to fully blooms outside at the moment, due to all the rain. The pinks and Russian sage in the bottom two pictures have buds all over the place. I’ll actually be interested to see what they look like at the end of the weekend with all the heat.
My other two bearded iris are blooming, and have brought a bit of a mystery. The iris I had previously labeled as Harvest King in my last iris post is actually Chinese New Year 1996. That means that the top iris in this post is a Supreme Sultan Old. That leaves the bottom picture to
Last night, I cast on some Nutkin socks out of the Pine Woods sock yarn I bought at Seaport Yarns. These are for Mother’s Day (yes, I know it’s a little late for that, but she only decided the day before Mother’s Day that she wanted socks, and then told me it was ok to