I managed to start a series midway through, but it’s fortunately a good place to start in this case. Catalina has just become the head of her household of magic users (alternate present day real world with magic – this is set in Houston). A friend’s mother and sister are killed, and she vows to […]
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Here’s the rest of the Blue Moon Silky Sock yarn used up in hexipuffs. On a side note, wool is hilariously soft when you take a quick detour from working with linen instead. Which is probably inconceivable to many people since wool = scratchy in most people’s heads. But it’s totally true!
This story picks up right at the end of Mira’s Last Dance. Penric is still hanging around Orbas, even though he’s been summoned back to Adria. But Nikys is still in Orbas, and she hasn’t actually jilted him yet. Word comes that Nikys’ mother has been taken prisoner, and she instantly comes to Pen for
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Here’s Villa. I’ll admit, doing the first row, I had no idea what the heck was going to happen. Now that I’m in the second row of blocks, it’s making sense. I am cheating and using stitch holders on the other sections I’ve gone through already. You should theoretically be able to keep them
Anna and Charles, still only married a month, are off to Seattle on a mission for Charles’ father, the Marrok. I’m running behind where these books parallel the Mercy Thompson books, so this is just before the werewolves have decided to come out to mortals, and the Marrok wants to meet with the European werewolves
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In this final book of the Finishing School series, Sophronia and her friends end up having to save England from the Picklemen, and it’s a pretty full on steampunk flavored, dirigible destroying experience. These books are just a ton of fun, and have just the right amount of romance included. Just the kind of fluff
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This is the Villa Cowl, by Bristol Ivy. It’s the Quince Quarterly Spring 2020 Level 1 pattern. The yarn is Quince and Co Sparrow in the Fundi colorway. This is a modular knit, which is breaking my brain a little bit so far, but in a good way. It’s also a linen yarn –
The community garden bed is greening up. We’ve had flea beetle over there pretty bad. I’ve gone through way more kale than I should have, and the broccoli greens and broccoli are toast. It hasn’t touched the Swiss chard (had the first harvest yesterday), but any of the runner beans I put directly
Binti has been accepted to Oozma University, which will require her to leave Earth and her people –a people that do not normally travel out of their land. On the way, her ship is attacked by the Medusae, and Binti is the only one left alive. This is a novella (one of the bad things
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Pattern: Pamina by Caoua CoffeeYarn: Blue Moon Yarn Silky SockNeedles: Size 2 DPNs I’ve finished the Pamina socks. Liked this pattern way more than the first one I tried with this yarn. It’s really well plotted out – she’s actually counted out all the row counts (something I can do, but appreciate not having
