In other knitting news, I’m done with the first Pamina sock. Enjoying this way more than the first pattern I tried with this yarn. I don’t necessarily need to be babysat through a pattern, but I do enjoy not having to keep track of too many things at once. This pattern fits […]
Pattern: Rococo Shawl by Lana JoisYarn: Quince Phoebe in the Mars ColorwayNeedles: Size 7 circs I can finally publish pictures of the shawl I got to test knit starting back in March. It was just published in Quince and Co’s Shawls 2020 on the 11th. I happened to notice the test knit note in Quince’s
Brendan Vetch journeys from his home in the mountains to the city – he’s been invited to be the new gardener at the wizard’s school there. It was a mysterious invitation, by a woman who wandered through town. When he gets there, he finds that he was invited by the wizard Od herself, the founder
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This book is a collection of reimagined fairy tales – some in verse, some in prose. Some of them are quite modern. I’m not the world’s biggest fan of verse, but really enjoyed these stories. I think my favorite story was “The Seven Shoes” – there’s a witch there, but it’s really just a tale
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The iris are blooming, so it’s officially planting time! The community garden bed went in yesterday, on a very muggy morning. I got in two kinds of marigolds, three kinds of greens (broccoli greens, red Russian kale and dinosaur kale), broccoli, zinnias, runner beans, rudbeckia, three kinds of peppers (serrano, amazing and Jimmy Nardello),
I’m not entirely sure what to think of this book. We start in colonial India, where Gemma is out with her mother, and witnesses her death. There’s very clearly something very sinister going on, but Gemma and her family go back to England, where officially, her mother died from cholera. Gemma is shipped off to
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Everything went outside yesterday to harden off. It decided to be 80 degrees, so it seemed the thing to do. It’s going back into the 50s and 60s again after our one day flirt with summer, with at least one night close to freezing, so it’ll probably be a full two weeks before I
The Circinus socks are out. That pattern relies on keeping track of where you are in the same chart, at four different starting points. And it was fine, until I was into the middle of the foot chart (an added complication), realized I’d screwed up, tried to tink back, and still couldn’t figure
Did my last bit of in house seed planting today – some runner beans, cucumbers and khuri squash, to give them a bit of a head start. It’s been so cold so far this Spring (we had snow last week!), they’ll probably need it.
My next project is Rich Ensor’s Circinus socks. I’m using Blue Moon Yarn Silky Sock in a yellow colorway, which is my Auntie B’s favorite color – guess who I’m making them for? The pattern is fun so far – it’s got a winding chart pattern around the leg which is fun to keep
