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
We’re back to the world of Constable – now Detective – Peter Grant, London police officer and wizard in training. After a bit of an interlude in the last one and a half books, the Faceless Man and Lesley are back. And I don’t feel like I can talk about it much, because it’s all
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The great new year yarn purge continues – here’s the last of the Shubui Knits Stacato, in hexipuff form. I’ve also cast on a Hermione Loves Ron with my leftover Madeline Tosh Vintage yarn. It’s technically the wrong weight, but I’d done one of these before in the same weight yarn, and really liked the
This is the last book in the trilogy about the Gale family. Charlie, the Wild Gale, is back in Calgary, watching her cousin Allie give a good go at getting the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son into the Gale family. And Jack, half-Gale, half-dragon prince, is growing up a little
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I’ve decided to do a temperature scarf for 2019, but I really wanted to get both the highs and the lows. I couldn’t figure out a good way to get them into one scarf without making things muddy, so I finally settled on doing two scarves. Temps are to be taken from
This the final book of the Beka Cooper books, and it’s a doozy. She and her partner are summoned with some haste to the Summer Palace, where they find that half of the servants and guards there have been slaughtered, and the young prince has been kidnapped. Beka promises the frantic queen that she will
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Here’s the 2018 crop. Didn’t quite get to 100, but I was close. That was due to quite a few rereads this year. We’ll see if that keeps up for next year or not – it’ll depend on how much I need comfort reading.
This is a great conclusion to the The Herald Spy trilogy – Mags and Amily definitely come into their own as the King’s Spy and the King’s Own. There’s a nasty bully in Haven – he or she is targeting the women of Haven that have dared to set themselves up in positions better than
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