I’m doing a little bit of cross stitch as a palette cleanser right now, because I went hard on stash busting this past year. So I’m safe to post my completed projects for 2025. I intend to continue the stash busting next year as well – I’ve got a fair amount of patterns queued up […]
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This book is in the companion series to the Mercy Thompson books, centering on the wolves of the Marrok’s pack in Montana. What’s fun about this book is we get to see some of the wildlings wolves, wolves who Bran has taken into his specific protection because they can’t be around regular werewolves, let alone
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It hasn’t gone far yet because I’ve been distracted by other things, but the baby blanket for impending niece #3 has begun. I’m doing Vivid again because I really liked how it came out for M. This time, I’m going Cascade 220 Superwash Sport. She’s coming in April, so I’ll be ramping up on this
This book traces the entirety of the history of the moon’s influence on Earth. Needless to say, this a huge topic, and each chapter could probably have been a book of its own, but I really liked the overview I got. There’s a lot here from an evolutionary perspective (of the Earth itself, much less
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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.
