spinning
Mish-mash of fibres from Leola at Cobble Hill. Fun to card and spin.
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Gradient fibre from the UK, from HillTop Cloud, mix of 30% BFL, 15% Bamboo and 55% merino. Spun on the big wheel, Lendrum Saxony.
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made from Kate’s wool bought for another sweater that did not work. Very comfortable sweater and interesting design.
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Blanket using hand spun only ….round and round
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Carbeth Cardigan Kate Davies design, using handspun wool with handspun hand dyed silk as one ply. Wool was Corriedale and Targhee and silk from Huckleberry Knits. Love the pattern.
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Read 3 books by John LawtonThe latest in his Fred Troy series – #8 I think, Friends and Traitors, 2017. Very good writer and entertaining mysteries. Troy an interesting UK policeman at times, a spy at times, with his crazy … Continue reading →
good non-fiction and mysteries
The Chalk Man by C. j. Tudor, 2018. Good mystery, don’t think I’ve read anything else by this writer. Good main character, interesting plot. Excellent book written by an ER doctor, set in Canada and Ethiopia, Life on the Ground … Continue reading →
good novel, good non-fiction
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, 2017,by Daniel Mendelsohn. He is a classics prof at a university in NY and he does write about the Odyssey but the book is mostly about his father, and fathers and … Continue reading →
good mystery, good novel, interesting non-fictio
Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr, 2017. Good book, continuing Bernies story and backtracking as well. Two stories, one in 1939 and one in 1956. They come together eventually but not til the very end. Bernie is his usual wise cracking … Continue reading →
many mysteries – need for escape
Love You Dead by Peter James 2017. Good mystery A Cast of Vultures by Judith Flanders, 2017. Another good mystery, the book publisher becomes the sleuth. Good characters Peter Robinson Sleeping in the Ground, 2017. Another good DI Banks book. … Continue reading →