Black Cable Scarf

The picture of this turned out not so great, but I'm pretty proud of all my little cable twists and turns. Made out of Andean Silk yarn to match (sorta) the black cable hat I made earlier this year. It's a very warm yarn, so I'm glad I made it thin and short. I'm hoping to make some fingerless gloves to go with both of them so I'll have a gorgeous matching set of sedate and sophisticated outerwear. :) Once the gloves are completed I'll see if I have enough yarn leftover to make some flippy fringe on this thing so the pom pom on the top of the hat doesn't look so weird.

Recently Completed Book Archive

Green Darkness--Anya Seton (See note on Elemental Magic. Not sure who rec'd this one, but it was good. A bit of time travel/past life stuff and voila! fabulous plot! Would recommend it to at least 50% of my friends. 7/13)

In Pursuit of the Green Lion--Judith Merkle Riley (Pretty good stuff! I think she must be basing much of her historical accuracy on accounts of the life of Margery Kempe, and reading this makes me really glad I took all those classes on Medieval Women's History. Now I can actually appreciate the effort this author went through to make her scenes correct...before she ruins the historical accuracy by making the characters talk like a tv sitcom. Surprisingly good though. 7/8)

A Man In Full--Tom Wolfe (This was a pretty weird book, and even though there were times when I was caught myself wondering why I wanted to finish it, I knew I couldn't let it go until the bitter end. It was a bit...not me...but okay,better than stuff like Louis L'Amour and John Grisham, but not fabulous. The kind of book I'd recommend to my Dad. 7/3)

Elemental Magic-- ( I generally reserve books at the library based on reviews or recommendations from friends or authors whose works I genuinely enjoy reading. Problem is...once I've added a book to my reserve list I rarely remember who (or what) recommended that I read it in the first place. In the case of Elemental Magic, that was fine. In the case of some of the other books I've ended up with lately...Well. ;-) This is a collection of erotic fantasy short stories (four) that I was not expecting to find tucked into my stack of knitting books. One of them was way to porn-y for me and not incredibly well written, but the other three were pretty decent. 6/30)

Kuddlie Kittenz!

Black Hat

I actually finished this cute little knitted hat about two months ago, and since it's summer and I have no need to either gift or wear said hat it's been unphotographed and pretty much undocumented...until now... If you look closely at the bottom picture you can see Artie's tail sticking straight out behind the hat on the desk...And Mz.MaddyRotten is well...Quite Pleased with her new accessory, yes?

Recently Finished Books Archive

Son of a Witch--Gregory McGuire, audiobook (I've read this before, but it was different hearing while I knitted. Sometimes I can't stand books on tape, because the reader is too slow, or too quick, or just not reading it the way it sounded in my head. Whoever read this book--one of my favorites--definately didn't sound like the voices in my head, but he did okay. 6/28)

Miles, Mutants, and Microbes--Lois McMaster Bujold (I've read this before, but when I requested it from the library I wasn't sure. Still fabulous though--three novellas rolled into good book 6/24)

The Oracle Glass--Judith Riley Merkle (I surprised myself by really enjoying this book. It's in the same vein as Gabaldon's Outlander series--lotsa romance and historical intrigue and whatnot--but fairly well written. I've added several more of her books to my library list to pad out the piles of knitting books with some well deserved fluff. 6/23)

Folk Style--Mags Kandis (Sad. I got this book because I was judging it by the picture on the cover...and found that I was really unlikely to make anything in the entire book. And I'm being generous. Oh well, back to the library it goes... 6/23)

Knitting Tool Holders

About two months ago I realized I needed a better knitting case. I had resorted to up-ending my little lunch box every time I needed to find the key to adjust my needles, or the tape measure, or....anything at all really. So I made these. I was originally going to just make the the little packet, but I was having trouble planning out the the pockets to hold the little non-straight bits. So I made two bags, and now everything has it's own little place to be put away. The Circle bag is a much cuter design, but I like the fabrics on the Pocket Fold one better. Yay!