Pattern: Heidi by Katya FrankelYarn: Quince and Co Whimbrel in the Bowsprit colorwayNeedles: Size 4 Circs and DPNs and Size 3 DPNs So I really screwed up the needle sizes. With my normal gauge, I probably should have used 6’s and 7’s. I think I may have been thrown off by the mm sizes […]
This was a fun story – novella sized. Miss Mnemosyne Seabourne is on the older end of the marriage market in the Tea Cup Isles (in a Regency-ish alternate version of England with more islands and magic), but she’s rich enough that she can afford to wait for the right husband. She’s been invited to
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I really enjoyed this – the last story in Catalina’s arc. There’s a terrible attack on a government figure, and the Warden of Texas ends up out of commission as well, which puts Catalina in charge of the investigation. Turns out Alessandro’s enemy Arkan is behind it all, and a Russian prince manages to get
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The garden is doing pretty well – I’ve been making decent dinners with our produce. The heat probably wasn’t the best for it, but I was at least able to keep the food alive. I had to top the tomatoes today – they’re putting on a ton of new growth that can’t all ripen if
Read for LibraryThing EarlyReviewers. I really enjoyed this book – it’s a really nice twist on the princess being rescued by a prince trope. I really like that we get both Esme and Rory’s points of view. Esme’s been told all her life that she’ll be a queen (even though she’s a peasant), so when
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Konrad is the Malykant – the chief servant of the Malykt, god of death. He’s charged with bringing to justice murderers, for trying to take the Malykt’s job into their own hands. This book is made up of four distinct stories, which I really liked. They have an Eastern European flavor to the names, and
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This is the Heidi sweater, by Katya Frankel. I’m making it in Quince and Co Whimbrel, in what I think is the Bowsprit colorway. I got this yarn in a seconds sales, and I found out why while winding it. Skein number one had a cut in it, and skein number two was so tangled
This is a nice bridge story between Nevada and Catalina’s portions of the Hidden Legacy series. It’s wedding themed, which is actually delightful. Catalina ends up being engaged by Nevada’s future mother in law to find a family heirloom that was stolen just before the wedding. Catalina’s only eighteen at this point, but she steps
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This book starts out with Rogan’s ex coming to him for help after her husband goes missing – no one else seems to be concerned, but Nevada and Rogan agree to take the case. What follows ends up being way bigger than you could have imagined, and leads to a pretty satisfying conclusion to Nevada’s
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Got rid of a couple more sock yarns – this is the last of the Sundara Sock Water Studies and the Quince Finch in Bird’s Egg. (I really needed to be able to put a downward trend into my yarn tracking. I’ll be able to do some much bigger deductions once I push through a
