Pattern: Telja by Jennifer SteingassYarn: Quince Owl in the Barred, Buru, Cranberry, Papuan and Straits colorwaysNeedles: Size 5 and 6 circs and DPNs My Telja is done! I’m a little sad – the yoke was fun. But now I can wear it! The pattern is cool – three stranded colorwork was an interesting new challenge. […]
The smaller clivia seems to have finally taken to repotting – second year in a row, it’s bloomed again in March. My seedlings are doing pretty well. With them starting out so well with the heat mats, I think I’ll start them a little later next year. Some of them are getting a little
Here are the two temperature scarves, as of the last day of winter. The high scarf has more colors, though I have taken the yarn for the 0-9 and 10-19 ranges away – we’re hopefully past the point of needing those anymore. I have not yet taken anything out of the low temp scarf
It’s several years after the first story in this series, where Penric accidentally gained a demon, and therefore became a sorcerer. He and Desdemona (the demon) have gotten to know each other better, and how to work together. He’s also been fully invested as a temple divine, serving in the Princess-Archdivine’s temple. This means that
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I’ve been very bad about keeping track of what’s been going on this month, mostly because it doesn’t seem like much – it’s all indoor stuff. The weather is just now sort of starting to signal it might be warming up. So I cast on these mitts nearly a month ago. The pattern is Darryl
Seed starting has begun! I’ve got 16 different types of seeds in today. This year’s new and improved kit includes a second bright white LED light of the kind I bought last year, and heat mats! (Christmas gift from the BF.) Plus new shelves long enough to hold them. I still have my old
This is the second books in the Queens of Renthia series. Delaina has come to the throne as the last survivor of all the heirs in Aratay. And while she is young and should have many years ahead of her to reign, she finds she has contracted the False Death. When she has spells, the
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This is the fourth book in a series about the daughter of the first woman president. I received the first one as a gift in middle school, and read the other two quite a while ago. It took me a while to track this fourth one down (and it was written quite a while after
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This is a lovely book, set in Alaska, at the turn of the last century. Mabel and Jack are an older couple, who have escaped their past lives to the frontier of Alaska. It was supposed to be a fresh start – a chance to work together on something, but signs are not looking good
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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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