I did all the set up work to get the squares for Blueberry’s quilt today. I love this pattern, because it’s basically: 1. Cut a bunch of strips. 2. Sew a bunch together and do a bit more cutting. 3. Sew everything that’s left together. I’m now ready for step 4, which is arrange everything […]
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I really wanted to make Blueberry’s quilt from some of the flannels in my stash, but I need six different colors for the quilt top, and I wasn’t able to pull off any combinations in my stash. So I took a trip to Joann’s yesterday (it’s rather pathetically true that that largest city in Maine
Read for the YA Reading Challenge. Touchmark is a charming YA novel set in Revolutionary War-era Boston. Nabby Jonas is an orphan, and is taken in by the family of a pewterer, not as an apprentice, as she’d like, but as a companion to the crippled daughter Emily. Gradually, Nabby is able to learn the
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I’m on vacation for the next week! Hurray! (I feel like I have an absolute surfeit of vacation this year, but it’s really just the result of taking absolutely no time off from January through May, while I had a project at work, and then having to make sure I take all but the 40
Read for the YA and RIP III Reading Challenges. Blood and Chocolate is the story of Vivian, a teenage werewolf. Her pack was recently forced to flee their home in West Virginia after a fire that caused the death of the pack leader (her father). They’ve moved to the suburbs in Maryland, and both she
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I’ve finished up another reading challenge! I definitely have to thank Lenneth over at Foxy Writer for hosting this one. I’m already a big fantasy fan, but this incorporated a few authors I’d not read before, and it was a great experience to do so. I ended up reading the following: It was a great
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Read for the Mythopoeic Award and TBR 2008 Reading Challenges. I should start this by noting that with the combination of L going back to school, and Sigerson’s recent post on LJ about the classes she’s taking this fall, I was feeling rather wistful about my college days. And then I read Tam Lin, and
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More Blueberry knitting done. These baby socks are from the recipe on the Lisa Henderson knits blog. It’s a pretty simple recipe, though since I didn’t really have much to compare them against, they came out a little shorter than I might have liked. I’m planning on doing one more pair, so I may try
Yeah, so I started out the morning at the Fibre Company tent sale. (It was actually the yard sale for the company owner. She recently got a distributor who is dying the yarn for her, so she’s going to move to England to start up another version of the Fibre Company over there. I want
I finally got around to reading the second of Allison Croggon’s Pellinor books. It was a great, quick read, and I’m definitely enjoying the world she’s built. The story picks up directly after Maerad and Cadvan’s escape from the city of Norloch, and follows our heroes through some of the outer lands of Edil-Amarandh. This
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