When a troll attacks one of the local bridges, the police department calls the local werewolf pack, and with Adam, the alpha being away, Mercy (his mate) gets to go to see how they can help. The pack does manage to kill the troll, which Mercy is pretty sure was sent by the Fae Gray […]
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Pattern: Wrap Me Up Puppy by Susan B. AndersonYarn: I Knit or Dye Killing Me Softly Aran light brown and MadelineTosh Vintage in CardinalNeedles: Size 4 DPNs and Size 6 circs and DPNs Here’s a little more stash busting. I’m not super in love with the end result – it’s more my finishing abilities then
My Telja sweater is coming along quite nicely – both sleeves are done, and I’ve started on the body. Here’s all of January and just a little bit of February in the temperature scarves. I’ve added one more color – Silver, for below 0. (Had one line in January.) You can see the last line
My 2019 seeds are in. One of the big things I decided for this year is that I’m skipping tomatoes entirely. They’re just so variable, and actually fairly easy to get at the farmer’s market. So that’ll leave me room to play around with. I have two peppers to try –
Alina and Mal have tried to run from the Darkling, but he finds them, and brings them back to Ravka. But the Darkling isn’t aware that his allies are not all that they seem, and the privateer he has hired to bring them back to Ravka instead saves Alina and Mal for his own ends.
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This book came out of the author’s attempt to collect examples of all of the elements – not easy to do, by the way. What he writes about isn’t so much the chemical or physical properties of those elements, though that is covered, where it’s important to their discovery. What he does cover is the
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Here’s the state of the Wrap Me Up Puppy – puppy is done other than the eyes and nose (though I may have to anchor the ears down a bit), and the blanket is started. I also did cast on the Telja sweater (by Jennifer Steingrass) last weekend. And got to the end of
Tony Wheeler is one of the co-founders of Lonely Planet – one of my favorite guide book publishers. This book is vignettes of his travels to a number of countries that most people are not going to travel to, because they’re not the safest places in the world to travel. It’s an interesting mix, because
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Pattern: Willowfall Cowl by Erin KurupYarn: Shibui Knits Staccato in the Velvet colorwayNeedles: Size 6 circs Here’s the final picture of the blocked Willowfall Cowl. I liked this pattern – having the lace gradually come in against the plain opening was a little different, and enjoyable to work on. This yarn is lovely.
We’re getting the first real snowstorm of the season, so it seemed like a good time to take stock of my knitting. The above is as far as I got with the Hermione Loves Ron Hat – turns out I did not have enough in that leftover yarn to make that. So that was
