Just a few things this week since my big focus was getting the Oregon Cardigan finished up (more details on that are in my post from Friday). I have been working away at the preview knit which I will be able to share photos of in another week or so - and I'm in the… Continue reading Year of Projects: Week 9
Month: February 2022
FO Friday: Oregon
I am absolutely delighted to say that my Oregon cardigan is finally finished! I normally don't take a whole year to finish a sweater, but I was using this for a project challenge and there were certain deadlines for it, so I couldn't work too far ahead - but regardless, it's done! The yarn and… Continue reading FO Friday: Oregon
Year of Projects 2022: Week 8
This week I've been working on getting a few larger things finished or closer to a finish. Although I don't have pictures to share yet, but I am happy to say that all the knitting on my Oregon cardigan is finished, and I have woven in all the ends and tacked down the steeks. My… Continue reading Year of Projects 2022: Week 8
Book Review: The Grass is Singing
Genre: FictionStars: 3/5Synopsis from Goodreads: Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of… Continue reading Book Review: The Grass is Singing
Book Review: Heiresses
ThaGenre: Nonfiction - HistoryStar Rating: 4 out of 5 starsPlot Summary From Goodreads: Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset with trauma and despair. Before the… Continue reading Book Review: Heiresses
Book Review: Underland
Genre: NonfictionStars: 5/5 starsSynopsis from Goodreads: In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time—from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a deep-sunk "hiding… Continue reading Book Review: Underland
Year of Projects 2022: Week 7
Lots of projects on the go this week, so here we go! I finished up my Constant Moral Support hat. The pattern is from Hunter Hammersen, and I used the last ball and a half of Jaeger Roma I had lurking in my stash from a sweater knit last year. (Is it just me, or… Continue reading Year of Projects 2022: Week 7
Book Review: The Girl with the Whispering Shadow
Genre: Middle-grade fiction/fantasyStars: 3-1/2 out of 5 starsSynopsis from Goodreads: Even a secret town cannot protect Ivy from a mysterious darkness...Only hours after Ivy Lovely discovers that she is the fulfillment of the Moonsday promise, she is whisked away from her beloved school to Belzebuthe, a secret town for only those with magical blood. Ivy… Continue reading Book Review: The Girl with the Whispering Shadow
Book Review: Skin of the Sea
Genre: Fiction / YA FantasyRating: 4-1/4 out of 5 starsSynopsis: Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now she serves them as Mami Wata--a mermaid--collecting the souls of those who die at sea and blessing their journeys back home. But when a living boy is thrown overboard, Simi goes against an ancient decree and does the… Continue reading Book Review: Skin of the Sea
Year of Projects 2022: Week 6
This week I've been focusing on a preview knit project, a large scarf/stole for Brooklyn Tweed, but unfortunately, I can't show any pictures of it until the preview week around the first of March. That's percolating in the background but in the meantime, I've also been working on: A new cast-on for a KAL with… Continue reading Year of Projects 2022: Week 6
Knit One, Spin Too 