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 […]
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.
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,
The last couple of weekends have been about putting the garden to bed for the season. The rain barrels are down, and the trellis has been stowed behind the shed. The shed itself is looking neater inside than it has in months. On Thanksgiving morning, after a walk at Two Lights, my mother and I
This is a compilation of the Herald Jors stories that Huff wrote in the Valdemar short story compilations. It’s nothing you’re going to read if you’re not a Valdemar fan, but if you are a fan, they’re worth reading. Jors and his Companion Gervais are fun to follow along, and the author has a good
The Demon’s Den and Other Tales of Valdemar – Tanya Huff Read More »
So I’ve frogged the In Dreams shawl for the moment. I restarted it five times, and something just isn’t clicking. I’ll be going along just fine, and then managed to totally screw something up so badly that tinking back (which is so damn hard with lace) just isn’t possible. I will say, I don’t love
This is a book of short stories, with at least a little overlap from the other collection of the author’s that I have. I definitely like the fairy tales the best of these – there are a couple more literary tales that aren’t bad, but are a bit too literary for my tastes. There are
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We got our first real frost on Tuesday night, and all the leaves on the front maple dropped the following morning. The above is the before picture. (You can see the slight furrow where the BF tried out the mulching function on our mower and decided that was a big, fat nope.) So while we
This story is Pride and Prejudice with dragons. So take the basic social story of P&P and insert it into a world where there are a variety of supernatural creatures, some that work with humans, and some against. Merybourne Manor is far enough out in the country that affording to hire dragon riders is a
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So while we were away in the Cape last weekend, this happened. We got home with just enough light last Sunday for me to be able to see that the zinnias and dahlias look like they came out on the worse end of a fight. (My mother, who’s on the coast, has not actually had
