This is a trip of a modern fairy tale. I suppose I should have expected this, as Saint Death’s Daughter was an absolute trip of regular fantasy novel. This is a shorter work, with goblins and fae, and travel between the worlds they inhabit, if you know the way. Desdemona finds the way after realizing […]
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My mother read this book before me, and said it wasn’t her favorite. Not that she didn’t like it, but that it just wasn’t what she was expecting. So I wasn’t quite sure what to expect going into it. Set in Regency era England, Amelia and her cousin Serena have been sent from their South
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Pattern: Musselburgh by Ysolda Teague Yarn: End of the World Farm Fingering Weight Yarn Needles: Size 3 circs and DPNs Take two of this hat is done! I still very much enjoyed watching the colors change while knitting this yarn. With the medium size, I do have a bit leftover, so I’ll be able to
I was able to get three more colors into the lighter weight 10 Stitch blanket. That’s actually put me at a net under for yarn for the year this point. Which I am going to obliterate with the order arriving today for some projects for the new year, as well as the sock yarn advent
Pattern: Two Colour Infant Hat by Paulina Chin Yarn: KDD & Co Ooskit in the Riach and Choffer colorways Needles: Size 4 and 5 circs and Size 5 DPNs A little more stash busting in under the wire for November. This was a great pattern – very clearly written, and nice and quick to knit.
They’re calling for our first snowfall on Tuesday, so the pots are in the shed, and gardening season 2025 is officially done. It was an ok year – considering the wet spring and then the drought conditions in the later summer/fall, things went pretty well.
This book has a really unique voice to it. It’s a conversation from the main character, and he manages to throw in so much world-building while it feels like he’s just casually sauntering through his life. Kinch is a thief – that was his alternative to joining the army for the wars against the goblins.
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Pattern: Nalu Mitts by Leila Raven Yarn: Bare Naked Wools Targhee Tango Sport in the Apilado colorway Needles: Size 4 DPNs This is a great pattern – really well written out. A fairly new knitter should be able to do this pattern, and it’s got some nice technique to it too. I still have so
My other experience with Brodsky’s work is her Olympus Bound series (which starts with The Immortals), where she took the ancient Greek gods into modern times, and which I enjoyed. So when I saw that she wrote a book about the meeting of the Inuit and the Norse, I was intrigued, and very willing to
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The shed is put to bed for the year, other than the perennial pots. Everything else is cleaned up and stowed according to how likely I will need it in early spring. Here are said perennial pots – other than the maypop. That was denuded of foliage, and since I’m storing that in the garage
