Mile-a-minute with border

Halloween 2012

This was my costume for work on Halloween.

Mile-a-minute Pattern

Ok, here is my attempt at writing this pattern, or any pattern for that matter.

Hook size 3-3.5
Stitches used: ch - chain, sl - slip stitch, tr - treble

Row 1: ch7, sl into first ch to form a ring, ch3 and turn

Row 2: Into ring tr2 (1st cluster), ch3, tr3 (2nd cluster) into ring, ch3 and turn

Row 3: 3tr into the 3ch space. 3ch 3tr in same space, 1tr into last tr of previous row, 3ch turn.

row 4: 3 tr into the 3 ch space. 3ch 3tr in same space, 1tr into previous 1tr space ch3 and turn.

Notes: A cluster is 3tr. On row 2 it only says 2 tr but the previous 3ch make the last tr needed to make the cluster.

Mile-a-minute Rug

Here is the start of my new rug.
I love this stitch because it's simple and really doesnt take long at all. It's also hard to make a mistake.....

Kokada book highlights

My Highlights from the book Kokoda by Paul Ham

As you go through, stick them.’ A rather quiet, introspective soldier refused. He was told, ‘It’s for all our safety’—and he was reminded of an incident when an apparently dead Japanese had shot a passing Australian. The quiet soldier said ‘Okay’, and lunged his bayonet into the nearest Japanese body, which groaned and crawled forward. The Japanese had been hiding his rifle. The Australian shook with revulsion and never quite recovered from the incident. He died later in the campaign.

The Japanese bound and bayoneted dozens of tribesmen who refused to cooperate with them. Women were raped, sometimes with bayonets. One native woman was pegged down and slit from her throat to her vagina; a teenage girl was nailed to the ground with a bamboo stake through her chest. The genitals and anuses of several native men and women were mutilated; the breasts of several women were chopped off and left on or beside their bodies. One woman was disembowelled, and one man’s buttocks were hacked off. At Moteo the Japanese tied a man’s hands with signal wire and shot and bayoneted him several...

But the…information that [the] wounded would have to fend for themselves, received in the darkness of a tent at midnight, to men just awakened from their sleep, was shattering.’9 Of 65 Australian Victoria Crosses won in World War I, thirteen went to troops who rescued the wounded under enemy fire. ‘Now the men were told that if hit…they would have to get back as best they could.’

Next Projects

Here are the next two rugs that I'm going to make

Rugs finally finished

This is the last rug that i needed to make for my Nephew

Light of Requiem by Daniel Arenson

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


All i can say is, thanks god that series is over!

I don't think i will read another of his books.



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will it ever end!

Tears of Requiem by Daniel Arenson

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


The story line is getting silly now....

The best part was when the king dies and there is still one more of these horrible books to go but i have to finish it now.



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Meh book

Blood of Requiem by Daniel Arenson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Honestly, this book hasn't grabbed me like other books have, but, I have to finish the series now that I have started so I hope that it gets better.
The book is too predictable and it feels like I have read this book before.

It has all the things needed to make a book interesting, dragons, griffons, good guys and bad, and don't forget the romance lol.

I think this book would be good for the young and shouldn't be read if you are currently reading or have read the Eragon series.
Once you have read the Christopher Paolini books you will expect to read the same sort of thing.

I don't feel that Daniel has delved deep enough into the story/history to make the book in-depth enough to go for 2 more!




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Eragon series is over!!

Inheritance by Christopher'>http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8349.Christopher_Paolini">Christopher Paolini
My rating: 5'>http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/170370964">5 of 5 stars

So the end has finally come for the Eragon series.

Its amazing how eager you are to read all of the books in a series, but once its finally here you hate it because you know that you will no longer get to read and know about what is going on with your favourite characters anymore.

I enjoyed the series from start to finish, but i have to say that i wish they would have put more in the books from Saphiras point of view and less of the other characters. I personally couldnt give too hoots about Eragons cousin and blah balh...I want to hear from the awesome Blue Dragon (who lost a scale from her nose LOL).

Anyway, thank-you Christpoher for a great series.

Another series bites the dust!

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