Jean Brashear's Blog

I’ve been in a sock streak as they’re small projects and go great while watching football. (Nervous knitting like crazy!) So nothing fun to show you until now.   But here’s a new baby quilt for a mom with two kids already. The kids down the line don’t get baby showers or big deal treatment, […]

Emily Henry has a remarkable talent for charm and cleverness in her treatment of human vulnerabilities. In a sea of angst-ridden books, she tackles pain with a deft hand, lacing it with fun and wit and characters who’ll stay with me. Her skill with the nuances of emotion and emotional growth is beautiful to experience. […]

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I decided I need to break out of a rut, so I leaped off a cliff and tackled the first of Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive, a 1200-page behemoth. He’s renowned as an author, and now I see why: his worldbuilding is superb, and his command of his craft is such that despite finding myself in […]

Mine doesn’t look as even as hers, but I wanted to use a gift wrap that was probably too heavy (and thus too stiff) to make such uniform folds. The stripes on it, though, really add to the fun of this one, do you agree?   (Hint: as you can imagine, I had to hit […]

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