Cutting it close this month
This month's options:
I don't usually do gothic stuff, but I went with The Warbler. The other two that looked good are already on order at the library.
The Offspring wanted new curtains for his bedroom this winter, being a fan of color and stuck with mismatched clearance-aisle beige curtains from Target. Colorful curtains are hard to find, and expensive when you do find them. Enter the notion of fabric dyeing. We've done tie-dye half a dozen times or more, and last fall I dyed three pairs of pants for the Fan of Color, so I've moved on to curtains.
Muslin was the first notion, but it wasn't thick enough. Then I saw something on Rit's website or on Facebook about using dropcloths as the dye base. So, we measured the windows in his room, and I spent some time on Amazon looking for cotton dropcloths in light colors. We need 4x6 foot curtain panels, so I found a 4x12 dropcloth. Cut it in half, hemmed it, washed it twice (lots and lots of lint), and put in a 3-inch hem on the selvage end for a rod pocket.
Then it was time for the dye. The 4x12 dropcloth weight almost two pounds, so I went with 2 boxes of Rit powder dye in Purple for the first curtains. Plus, of course, a dash of dish soap, a cup of salt, and a bottle of Rit's dye fixative. Oh, and the sacrificial plastic spoon for stirring. Ninety minutes of stirring later, and a third trip through the wash, we have curtains!
His bedroom has two more windows, so two more pairs of curtains are in progress - fuchsia and aquamarine. Two more dropcloths are on the way, and I need to see if I need more thread in similar colors.
Another pick-two month.
Scratching the romance, thriller, and dramas cuts down the options. Ended up with Some Other Time and Something About Mira.
December's choices:
Decided on Give Her Credit, put What The Light Touches on hold at the library, and may suggest that they buy Bitter Passage as well.
November's selections
Taking out the thrillers and suspense cuts it down quickly. It's down to White Mulberry, Nobody's Perfect, and Floreana. The library already has White Mulberry (what's with all the Korean historical fiction lately?) and Floreana on order, so I'm getting Nobody's Perfect. I Think . . . might be interesting, but it's also end-of-the-world which I've hit my limit on.
This month's choices:
Nope to the short read (44 pages? really??), the espionage, the "coming of age," the thriller, the Green Beret memoir. Library has Anti-Heroes and Hill of Secrets on order, so it's either Bad Reputation or Lenny Among Ghosts. So, I'll give Bad Reputation a try.
This month we have:
Oddly, our library has only got one of these, the procedural, on the order list. Usually it's at least a couple. Scratch the procedural and romantasy, romance, and historical fiction. This time, I'm going with Bummer Camp, and may get In Our Likeness via ILL later - it's got a sci-fi theme going on that might be interesting.
