I feel like I didn’t read as much this year, though looking at the raw numbers, I’m fairly on par with normal years. But I do feel like my mojo has gone away a bit – I feel like I’m not alone in this. It’s definitely been a weird year.
1. The Discovery of Middle Earth – Graham Robb I’m about forty percent of the way through this book, and I just can’t anymore. The author is writing about his ideas for the continental Celts’ cosmology, and why they built their towns were they did. They’re not bad ideas, but I don’t think they’re enough
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This the fourth of the Alpha and Omega books, and I’m still back a bit from where I’m up to the Mercy Thompson books. Here, the Fae have newly retreated to their reservations, and it seems that some of them are not happy to have had to this. They’re unleashing some of their worst against
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I think it’s safe to say I won’t be finishing any more knitting projects this year, so here’s this past year’s completed collage. It feels a bit low in count, but better than 2020, at least. Part of this is that I’ve been doing more cross stitch, but I feel like my mojo for a
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Things just look so much better when you’re stitching on fabric that actually shows off the main contrasting color! This is the Fly Agarics pattern from Owl Forest (furthering my current obsession with Russian designers). It’s nice to have a stitching project going again – I was leaning pretty heavily into the knitting to see
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.
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 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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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
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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