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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In a former life, when I had much more free time, I was a language nerd. I’ve given up a fair amount of that these days, but do still enjoy the odd book about language. This one is by a linguistics professor who also writes a blog (Separated By a Common Language) that I’ve been
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The knitting portion of my Salal sweater is done. However, I’m trying to do a reinforced grosgrain ribbon button band, and the buttonholer in my sewing machine is kicking my butt. Fortunately, I have plenty of grosgrain ribbon. So that’ll get done eventually. I’ve given up for today, at least. I finished
The garlic is all cured, and cleaned up. The two varieties I grew were Duganski and German Red – I think the larger heads on the left are the German Red. Can’t wait to see how they taste. Conveniently, my last head of store garlic is just about out.
Pattern: Knit Stars by Kirsten HipskyYarn: Quince and Co Tern in the Buoy colorwayNeedles: Size 3 DPNs Here’s a fun little stash busting pattern. Since I had some yellow yarn, I felt like I really needed to use it in some Christmas stars – this is a really easy pattern that fits that bill.
The second of the Family Spies books follows Mags and Amily’s middle child – daughter Abidela. Abi’s been training with her father in the spy business, but it’s a bit of a place holder, because she hasn’t found out if she has any Gifts. One day, she and her best friend Princess Katiana, are out
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