This is Eurydice, by SpillyJane (a pattern I’ve been holding onto from a sock club from looong ago.) The yarn is Lichen and Lace Matte Sock, in the Teal Tide colorway. I’m making these for my Aunt N. (I hope. She has size 11 feet, and I’m not positive I have enough yarn. We’ll […]
This is a lovely graphic novel with translations of fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth not long after the Brothers Grimm had been doing their work there. His collection is not as well known because he did not publish it in his lifetime. They’re definitely familiar, but with little twists to the story
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Pattern: Hitchhiker by Martina BehmYarn: Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Pure 100% Merino Superwash in the Paul colorwayNeedles: Size 3 circs My Hitchhiker is done. This is a really enjoyable pattern – good sized repeat, and excellent tv (or hanging out with your two year old niece who has just enough attention span to let you
Our story begins when a young man named Elave returns from the Holy Land, bringing back the body of his master, William of Lythwood. They’d left on pilgrimage a number of years ago. Elave had been the clerk for the Lythwood family, and while they’re sad that William is gone, they’re happy to see Elave
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Jess Brightwell was given a position in the Library’s High Garda – he knows it’s so that the head of the Library can keep an eye on him, after they kidnapped and killed his best friend, Thomas, for his heretical ideas. The rest of their friends in their initial training class have moved on to
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Back to Temeraire – Laurence and Temeraire are still in Australia when they get a surprise visitor announcing that Laurence’s commission has been restored. Of course there’s a catch – Laurence will have to go to South America, where it would seem that Napoleon is trying to meddle with the Incan Empire. I will first
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Since I had the sewing machine out for the button holer (which I have incidentally given up on for the time being), I figured I might as well get the project bags I’d taken fabric out for last spring out of the way. The first bag is from two fat quarters of a fat quarter
I added this book to my Amazon wishlist many years ago – not sure where I happened upon it, but I’ve long found the idea of Newfoundland interesting – it’s just so far away. The book is a series of vignettes of the author’s trips to Newfoundland in the late 1980s to 1990s, so the
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This is Damsel, by Josee Paquin. I got this in the summer Quince Quarterly shipment. I knew it would be either cotton or linen yarn, so decided if I was going to spend the money, I might as well go for something outside of my regular wheelhouse. The yarn is Quince and Co.
It’s twelve books into the Elemental Magic series, which started with fairy tale retellings, and eventually branched into Sherlock Holmes, and has now brought in Cthulu. If you’re at all familiar with Lovecraft, you have a pretty good idea of what takes place in this book, but it’s so much fun to see how Lackey
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