• A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it. It’s 1915 and Adelaide Henry has decided to leave her parents’ farm in southern California and head north, to claim a homestead of 100 acres,

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  • Here’s my weekly update for week one Year of Projects: The Tour de Fleece kicked off yesterday and I had finished up the merino/bamboo singles I was working on for this a combo spin so I was able to start this bobbin of Polwarth wool from Three Waters Farm. I’ll be working on these singles

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  • When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Pulsing with suspense and intellect while blending nonfiction and fiction, Biography of X is a roaring epic that plumbs the depths

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  • In this epic and immersive Viking-inspired romantic fantasy, a woman fleeing a ruthless assassin accidentally joins forces with a group of mercenaries and must use all her cunning to escape with her life—and heart—intact. The Road of Bones is the first in the The Ashen series by Demi Winters. This was my November 2024 BOTM

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  • I’ve got a handful of WIPs going right now, which will all be on the needles as my starting points for YOP – Year 15. These are essentially my focus projects for July, although I have a couple of sample knits that will probably also get started once the yarn arrives at my end. Knitting:Painted

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  • The Light of Days by Judy Batalion is a nonfiction title that does a deep dive into the history of Jewish women resistance fighters in Poland during World War II. The author pored over stacks of first-person accounts from the survivors or histories told by family and friends after the war was over. The woman

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  • Year 15 (!) of the Year of Projects runs from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. Each Sunday I’ll have a post to talk about what I’ve been working on with craft projects for the week and what my plans are for the following 7 days. One thing I have learned in my time

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