All the projects are cute, although the pattern writing wasn't always clear to me as a beginner. I would also suggest not attaching the leaf cord into a loop shape until the pouch portion is finished so that you can thread it into the folded drawstring hem at the end and then finally seam it into a loop. Also the digital formatting was tiny and illegible on my kobo and I could only read it on my desktop app.
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(she/her) I've started a lifelong phase focusing on books written by women of colour
=============== 2023 stats ===============
38% of the authors I read were women of colour 40% was nonfiction 49% of the fiction was SFFH 33% were published in 2023 76% were published in the last 10 years From 130 abandoned books I read approximately 1094 pages over 37h
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2024 Reading Goal
71% complete! kab has read 71 of 100 books.
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kab rated Crochet Secrets from the Knotty Boss: 4 stars
kab rated When I Open the Shop: 4 stars
kab rated All the Lives I Want: 3 stars
All the Lives I Want by Alana Massey
"From columnist and critic Alana Massey, a collection of essays examining the intersection of the personal with pop culture through …
kab rated The complete guide to water storage: 3 stars
kab reviewed Knit Your Garden by Yun Jeong
Knit Your Garden
5 stars
kab rated The Dead Cat Tail Assassins: 3 stars
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark
The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats.
Nor do they have tails.
But they are most assuredly dead.
Nebula …
kab rated A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing: 4 stars
kab rated Behind You: 4 stars
Behind You by Catherine Hernandez
As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a lifetime. …
kab rated The Anthropologists: 4 stars
kab rated Foolproof Freeform Embroidery: 5 stars
kab rated Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through: 4 stars
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? …
kab reviewed Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
Ex-Wife
3 stars
Content warning ** spoiler alert **
Besides the pounding misogyny, the most salient aspect is the forced disproportionate gravity of literal adolescent relationships when you marry the first person you want to 'bun'. Negging and body commentary is standard on all fronts. Surprisingly not full-on racist, just a bit escaped. Feminist is a slur. Soap opera turns. The correspondence between the protagonist and her great love in her supposed mature phase at 27 is unflattering. I appreciated the supportive friendships and the confronting of wearying subjects that endure, lack of safe access to abortion, the debts that are considered owed for male attention. One of her closest friends, her asexual future husband who inherits millions, explains her appeal to him: “I don’t think about you as female. You’re decorative, like a well-bred young collie pup… and besides you laugh at things and like to look at pictures.” It's a record of a side of New York in 1929.
kab rated Black Punk Now: 4 stars
Black Punk Now by James Spooner, Chris L Terry
A canonizing, bold, and urgent anthology setting a new precedent for Black Punk Lit, created by generations of Black punks—featuring …
