Knitting Notes
Here are a couple of baby Swirl hats to finish up the Koigu yarn – I was hoping to finish off at least one more skein before the new year.
Garden Notes
I’m doing an online garden design class – I decided I wanted to approach this new garden a little more planfully since I have so much more room than I’ve ever had before to deal with. The pictures above are the first substantial home work – doing a detailed plan of the plot. I ended
Thorn and Brambles – Intisar Khanani
Thorn is a retelling of the “Goose Girl” fairy tale. Here, we have Princess Alyrra, who has absolutely no value to her own family, slated to marry into the family of the powerful kingdom they border. Alyrra’s not really sure why – her own kingdom is small, and she’s not sure what she can bring
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Knitting Notes
Pattern: Basic 4Ply Socks by Winwick MumYarn: Koigu Painter’s Palette Premium Merino (KPPPM) in 525P, and Ontheround Nimble Sock in the Barred Owl and Narwhal colorwaysNeedles: 2.5 DPNs Along with these socks, my scrappy socks for the Dads are done. This is a great pattern – really adaptable, and most people above a complete beginner
The Glass Gargoyle – Marie Andreas
Taryn is an archaeologist working in the ruins of the elves, who vanished from their kingdom thousands of years ago. Problem is, you need a patron to work on the digs, and hers keep dying. So she’s also working as a bounty hunter, and her latest bounty manages to drag her into a wild adventure.
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Terciel & Elinor – Garth Nix
I’m so happy for another Old Kingdom book, and this one is about Sabriel’s parents, and how they met. At the very beginning, Terciel is a young boy in an orphanage, when his great-great-aunt, the current Abhorsen, comes to find him. You actually find out that his sister, who he barely remembers, had been the
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Rosemary and Rue – Seanan McGuire
October Daye is a changeling, with a human father and fae mother. She’s actually done fairly well for herself, becoming a knight in one of the courts local to San Francisco. Knights are generally pure bloods, so it’s a hard won honor. At the very beginning of the book, she’s investigating the disappearance of her
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Embroidery Notes
So here’s the danger of just blindly using fabric because you have it and you figure, why buy more? Do you see the Ecru colored stitches in amongst the top of those orange stitches? Of course you don’t – Ecru is pretty much the same color as the fabric! And those really need to be
Knitting Notes
Here’s the first set of socks for my Dads, using several different kinds of yarn. I’ll do an official end post once the second set is done. The second set is on the go – I switched up the yarn order slightly, since I’d used more of the white-based yarn in this pair.
Knitting Notes
This is the Rose Plank shawl, by Monika Sirna. I’m using Bare Naked Wools Targhee Tango Sport in the Apilado colorway, which I got in my foray with the Bare Naked Yarns Barnbox club earlier this year. (It was one of my spread the stimulus love to American small business purchases.) So far so good,