Embroidery Notes
Block three (which was really just half a block), is done, which means I’m done with the entire center column of the design. It’s fun to see some of the repeats starting to come through.
Fate’s Edge -Ilona Andrews
Audrey Callahan belongs to a family of con artists in the Weird, but she’s gotten out. However, when her brother gets into some trouble, she agrees to one last heist with her father, to take care of him – then she’s done with her family for good. Unfortunately, that heist puts her in the path
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Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
This book is set in the Grishaverse, but definitely comes across as grittier than the books in the Shadow and Bone series – those are more fairy tales. This is a heist book. Kaz Brekker has been given the heist opportunity of a lifetime, and each member of the crew he assembles has good reason
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Garden Notes
I pulled the peppers and tomatoes out today. We’ve had frost locally, but the driveway is such a sheltered micro climate that it hasn’t touched those yet. So they’ve still been ripening, even if the plants aren’t looking the best because they have been feeling the cold. We’ve got something in the works that is
Knitting Notes
I’ve decided to make this the socks for Moms Christmas. Made a pair for my mother, so I’m moving on to my MIL. This is Joshaqan by Hunter Hammersen. I’m using Koigu Painter’s Palette Premium Merino in a nice autumny mixed colorway.
Winter of the Gods – Jordanna Max Brodsky
We’re back in New York City with the modern version of the Greek gods. Selene Desilva (Artemis) and her human partner, Theo Shultz, get thrust right back into the middle of some ritual murders. This time, we find out a sect is trying to resurrect the god Mithras, by killing the other older gods. I
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Knitting Notes
Pattern: Gordes by Hunter HammersenYarn: Yarn: Swans Island Ikat Collection Watercolors in the Indigo Beetroot colorwayNeedles: Size 2.5 DPNs The Gordes socks are done. (And this damn new block editor is not letting me format this entry like I want, and the spacing looks terrible, but I’ve run out of spoons to want to fix
Embroidery Notes
Panel two of the William Morris design is done. I’m still going way faster than I initially thought I’d be doing, but it is something a little different, so I’ve been enjoying that.
Circe – Madeline Miller
I really enjoyed this book. Circe’s a fairly minor character in the Odyssey (I think – I’ve blocked out most of reading that in high school. I hated it – though it was probably as much the boring instruction as anything else). In this book, we get the story of how the demigod child of
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Canning Notes
My mother had a bumper crop of raspberries earlier this summer. She had so many I told her I’d take as many as she could freeze for me. I knew I wouldn’t be able to do anything with them then, but figured September would probably be better. And I managed jam. The smell was heavenly.