Friday, October 9, 2015 at 6:31PM I've finished another pair of socks.
These are Basic Shaped Arch Socks by Marlow Crawford. They fit beautifully. The yarn is Naked Sock and the color is Island Life.
I'm really glad that I can easily buy socks. If I had to knit all of them, I'd freeze to death.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 3:58PM 
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
From the Goodreads website: "Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.
My son Josh has been bugging me to read this for quite some time. I should have listened to him the first time he told me about this book. I liked it a lot. There are a couple of characters that I really want to know more about. Of course it's part of a series so maybe I will and I am most definitely reading the next one.
Books Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 5:59PM Here's the next quilt to go on Lenni. It was a mystery quilt that I pieced in 1997.
I've been calling it Chinese Lanterns. It seems to have aged well.
Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 6:39PM We just got back from a cruise to Alaska. Because I am a Nervous Nellie, we spent a few days in Victoria before the actual cruise. It is quite a ferry ride over from Vancouver. We had a nice walk to the Abkhazi Tea House and had tea.
The weather was perfect, cool and crisp, especially after the heat and humidity of Virginia.
This is a pretty cool plant in the gardens. It looked like climbing miniature purple peppers.
We explored the grounds at the Government House, downtown Victoria, and Cowichan Bay. One of my favorite places was Butchart Gardens.
These hanging baskets were everywhere and they were huge.
Overlooking one section of the garden. This used to be a stone quarry.
After our three days, I was about as relaxed as that dog.
Random Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 2:13PM The Boneyard Shawl is blocked
and finished.
The pattern is from a Craftsy class with Stephen West (check out his other patterns) and the yarn is handspun alpaca that I purchased at the West Windsor Farmers Market in New Jersey. It's going to be so soft and cuddly around my neck this winter.
