This is the beginnings of Celestarium, by Audry Nicklin. I’m using Tess’ Designer Superwash Merino Lace yarn, in the Maine Woods and Waters colorway. I’ve been sitting on the ingredients for this for about a year – I was a little scared off by the beading. Turns out that’s super easy. This should be […]
Natalie’s in college, struggling to make ends meet, and make her tuition payments, while also sending money home to help her family. When she’s offered a job by one of the theater professors, it seems like a dream come true – a steady job that can pay her tuition. It turns out that the professor
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As soon as I finished my New Year’s Day hat, I went into “clear out some ends” mode – here’s a Swirl hat (by Mandie Harrington) and some New-born Spiral Rib Socks (by Jessi Crum), and well as hexipuffs, to use up the Done Roving Frolicking Feet and Premium Yarns Serenity sock I used in
I have to admit, half the reason I probably liked this book so much is that it’s talking about the forests of Maine, admittedly a little further from the coast from my usual haunts, but close to where my mother grew up, so I’m very familiar. This book is basically a love story to a
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In the second book of the Innkeeper Chronicles series, Dina’s had an offer to host a peace summit between three warring factions at her inn. It’s immediately clear that everyone else has turned them down, because this is the most unlikely peace summit in some time. But the Gertrude Hunt is still fairly new, and
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Pattern: Oh Brother by Fran CarleYarn: Berry Meadow Heritage Alpaca in the Arsenal, Tashi and Fiona colorways (I’m wearing three alpacas!)Needles: Size 6 circs and size 7 circs and DPNs I really like this pattern – the fold over brim makes the ear portion nice and thick. It came in pretty tight – if
Well, I think I can safely put this year’s books read into the record books – there’s no way I’m finishing another book on New Year’s Eve. I actually read 100 books this year. Partially, because this was the year of the comfort reread, and partially because this was the year I got really sick
It was not my most productive year ever – part of that is that I did finally complete a sweater that I actually like wearing, and I was knitting that in the height of summer, so I really didn’t get as much done in the summer as I might have in years past. It was
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Here’s another reread. This story is somewhat based on Celtic mythology, but draws in two young people from the “real” world. Westerly and Cally have both lost their parents, and in their grief are both drawn into another world where they met Lugan and Taranis – who both have extraordinary powers. They both know that
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Pattern: Constellate by Hunter HammersenYarn: Dun Roving Yarns Frolicking Feet in the Rock Creek colorwayNeedles: Size 3 circs and DPNS This was a fun pattern – just challenging enough to keep things interesting, and it knits up to a nice, chunky fabric. We’ll see how it does against our current cold snap. The yarn’s
