Tarboosh is finally published! It is available in my PayHip store, Ravelry store, and will be available in my LoveCrafts store within 24 hours.  You can see that it matches Kabsa, and I have a great deal for you if you purchase both right now. With the coupon code TarbooshIntro in both my PayHip and Ravelry stores, you can receive Tarboosh for 50% off with the purchase of Kabsa in the same cart. In fact, if you have already purchased Kabsa, that purchase will still count for Tarboosh. You will have to do it a little differently on PayHip if you made a previous purchase, and e-mail me your receipt for that one (or the name your account is in so I can look it up for you), and I will send you a coupon code for Tarboosh at 50% off specifically. This coupon is valid through the end of the day PDT, September 30, 2021.

I have a new design on needles, and I am hoping to have it ready for tech editing and beta knitting by the end of October. It is a project I had almost finished for years, but I was unhappy with it, so I started over, and it is much better. This will be a woman's garment, and it will be graded from 29 inches at least up to 54 inches in bust circumference. I am trying to figure out the math to figure out the armscye for larger sizes, so I can perhaps have it graded to 58 inches.

We are finished with Anne of Windy Poplars and started Anne's House of Dreams. I'm not as far into Desert Queen as I hoped, but am making progress. I've had too many sleepy nights. Another blogger shared The Lost Words and I had our library send it to us. As soon as Rich finished reading it, he said he thought we should own in, so I think I will get on that. It is a beautiful book, illustrated in watercolors, with lovely poetic verse about several of the 400 words which the Oxford English Dictionary (mostly regarding nature) thought should be excised from the new edition almost ten years ago. My thoughts on that are that if people and kids are more familiar with technology, then it is precisely the nature words we should keep for them to find in the dictionary, as they already know what blog and download and cut-and-paste mean. They didn't ask me for my thoughts, though.

Linking to Unraveled Wednesday.

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Labels: Books, Design, Governor Inslee Needs a Frozen Fish to the Forehead, Homemaking, Knitting, Tales from the Kitchen, WIP, Yarn Along

// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 1:04 PM