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Leiland Beanie
In my submission for this year's Crochet Cancer Challenge, hosted by Sweet Potato 3, I'm commemorating my own 10 years of survivorship with the Harbor Beanie!
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Split Cluster Stitch in Rows and Rounds
Learn how to work the trinity stitch in both turned rows and in the round for two very different looking effects!
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Double Crochet Decrease
Learn how to make a stitch that every crocheter should have in their repertoire—the double crochet decrease—in this photo and video tutorial.
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Theo of Golden
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why… His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers. Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden done by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their “rightful owners.” With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered. A story of giving and receiving, of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is a beautifully…
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Triad Stitch in Rows and Rounds
Learn how to work the trinity stitch in both turned rows and in the round for two very different looking effects!
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The Odyssey
In this fresh, authoritative version—the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman—this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse and a vivid, contemporary idiom, this engrossing translation matches the number of lines in the Greek original, thus striding at Homer's sprightly pace and singing with a voice that echoes Homer's music. A fascinating introduction provides an informative overview of the Bronze Age milieu that produced the epic, the major themes of the poem, the controversies about its origins, and the unparalleled scope of its impact and influence.
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Codebreaker Cowl
Last year, I read a book called The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay. It was a lovely historical fiction novel set amidst the fall of the Berlin wall. I know. I know...right now you're thinking, but what does this have to do with yarn? Well, inspiration comes from many places, and on the cover of this book was a beautiful knit cowl with lovely drape that I knew I had to have. The problem...I don't knit. So, I set out to mimic it with crochet stitches instead.
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Magic for Crosswise Witches
Bound by blood and betrayal to the dark, unforgiving waters of the lake two centuries earlier, the Crosswise Witch can save or destroy. Each year, the Thorngood women feed their ancestress’s spirit in a fragile bargain for protection. Truly Thorngood was raised to inherit her family’s magic and the land they’ve kept for generations. But one fateful night, violence shattered everything. Young Truly flees to New Orleans and swears off magic, leaving the Justice missing in her wake. When her mother vanishes thirteen years later to the day—and the Justice’s son begins connecting the disappearances—Truly is forced to return home, where the Clay family’s hunger for vengeance waits. As the…
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Saltwater
In 1992 Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarah’s death is ruled an accident. On the thirtieth anniversary of Sarah’s death, the Lingates arrive at the villa in Capri to find a surprise waiting for them—the necklace Sarah was wearing the night she died. The legendary Lingate family unity is pushed to a breaking point, and Sarah's daughter, Helen, enlists the help of Lorna Moreno, a family assistant, to plot their escape from Helen’s paranoid, insular family. When Lorna disappears and the investigation into Sarah’s death is reopened, Helen has to confront the fact that everyone who was…
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The Bear and the Nightingale
At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn't mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. After Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new, fiercely devout wife, who forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone…
Life In The Making
