Read for the RIP III Reading Challenge. Leave it to me to manage to request the second book of the Sookie Stackhouse novels before the first. And to decide to read it for a challenge so that I don’t really have time to send it back and get the actual first book. So, I was […]
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So I gave myself permission to procrastinate on picking a Sockdown sock, and then decided I really wanted to work on a sock that wasn’t a Jaywalker, so on Monday, I cast on Steffi van der Linden’s Susanna socks in some Fibre Company Canopy sport I had in my stash. And then I almost immediately
The back of the Brocade Leaves sweater is done. (No picture, but there’s really no good way to make it look much different than the pictures I’ve taken before.) It looks a little on the long side, but it’s definitely to gauge, and it’s still just the back, which is a little hard to judge
My Maelstrom socks are done! I’d really wanted to finish them entirely in the month of September (I know it’s not a challenge rule, but I have so much other stuff I want to make it seemed like a good idea), but I didn’t manage it. So, I went on a bit of a bender
Read for the TBR 2008 Reading Challenge. So, as far as I can tell, a colony ship landed on a planet. Somehow, the crew got some sort of control over the passengers. They managed to gain power, and taking on the aspects of the Hindu pantheon, ruled over the planet and made sure that the
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Read for the RIP III and YA 2008 Reading Challenges. I finally succumbed to all the hype and read Twilight. Per usual with this kind of book, I approached it with a great deal of trepidation, and was rather pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I can’t say this is the best romance
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Read for the RIP III Reading Challenge. One of the things I really enjoyed about Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell was the way that the author wove the fairy aspects of the book into the story in such a way that it came off just as much as a historical fiction book, as much as
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Even with the marathon quilting sessions this week, I’ve also been doing some knitting. I finished Maelstrom sock number 1 last night. It’s definitely a great pattern. I’m sort of wishing I’d chosen a different yarn, because some of the stitch definition is getting lost in the dark colors, but I do still really like
Blueberry’s quilt is done! I sewed the back of the binding last night (perfect evening to be forced to have a lap quilt, I might add), and ran it through the wash this morning. It’s all set to go down to Boston on Saturday. I’m really pleased with how it turned out, considering I choose
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This morning flew by. I got a lot more then I thought was possible done on the quilt. In order, we have step 4: arrange squares, step 5: sew them all together, and step 6: make the quilt sandwich. At that point, I decided to tie the quilt rather than quilt it, because I have
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