@intlnadine.bsky.social
Globe-trotter; international school librarian; hiker; knitter; crocheting; book adorée; empty nester; feminist; ally; blog: https://intlnadine.org/
#mystery genre popular in your school too? I've tried to make a choice flow-chart & some posters suitable for #middleschool. intlnadine.org/2025/10/07/s... would love some feedback on how to improve it and any favourites in the genre I may have missed (and if anyone has the equivalent for YA?)
08.10.2025 01:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#sensemaking Demystifying mystery
At the moment the Mystery genre is getting a lot of love from everyone from middle school to adult and a lot of great books are being released. Since we're in a middle/high school library I wanted to showcase the mystery books that are not too spicy / intense. In…
Love Martin Storeys patterns and you’ve done an amazing job on it!
01.10.2025 13:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It absolutely is
30.09.2025 11:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I live in the desert so cowls not really part of my wardrobe!
25.09.2025 00:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🧶Finally finished these #socks! Fish lip heels own pattern created to practice stranded knitting with two hands!
22.09.2025 06:12 — 👍 27 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Yay! I bought it yesterday and it’s great to now hear the backstory
21.09.2025 12:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#showmeyourknits 🧶#WIP one helical “boatswain” sweater by Ola Ogunlou in Malabrigo lace and 1.5 sleeves left on the “winter carnival” in Malabrigo Rios
08.09.2025 01:15 — 👍 43 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nonfiction plus time and emotion
The following slides are part of a presentation Katie Day and I made for the 2025 ISLE librarian conference in London. (Note: Although I am the one "publishing" or "blogging" this discussion the credit equally goes to Katie Day as this all originates in our many…
A reminder that I should get into story graph
01.09.2025 12:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#showmeyourknits 🧶
pattern: Drops Design Winter Carnival #sweater
yarn: #Malabrigo various shades
Sounds great - is it metric? Inches and yards drive me nuts!
27.08.2025 00:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Go abroad! UK or Australia/ Canada/New Zealand Depending what your interests are I love bookish podcasts and have “backlisted” as a favourite.
27.08.2025 00:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bottom up Gjöf sweater by lopidesign.is knitted in Malabrigo yarn
05.08.2025 15:56 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0塞翁失馬 The Lost Horse
I've just finished reading the really well written "The Many Meanings of Meilan" by Andrea Wang. Having spent 16 of the last 20 years in Hong Kong, Singapore and China it was a reminder of so much of my time there and the discoveries of the language, literature, poetry and…
Poetry Analysis
I'm busy trying to decide what to do with very old blogposts as I was an avid blogger from 2003 to 2011 before I became a librarian. I literally have 1000s of posts that I'm not sure what to do with, so I'm going to selectively add posts that have to do with literature, language,…
26.07.2025 20:05 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#showmeyourknits Helical sweater in Malabrigo Lace pattern is free from Ravelry “boatswain sweater by Ola Ogunlolu” simple clear instructions 🧶
26.07.2025 16:22 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0PRU soul bonfire yarn from Stephen & Penelope Amsterdam
23.07.2025 07:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sayuri Sweater using Koigu 100% Marino wool in grey tints
23.07.2025 07:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sayuri Sweater using Koigu 100% Marino wool in grey tints
23.07.2025 07:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚆 🧶 project - new socks with slip stitch.
23.07.2025 07:49 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One sleeve left to go! #showmeyourknits 🧶
21.07.2025 14:33 — 👍 29 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0
What a great initiative! #soccer #women
13.07.2025 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Experimenting with double handed knitting in anticipation of fair isle pattern I’ve just bought - oh my years of knitting in anticipation certainly way make trying continental so hard! Especially purl & in particular to keep nice even tension. Any tips?
13.07.2025 11:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Aqua should not be the colour of death
I've been meaning to write this for a while. A friend died in February. She was not just a neighbour but someone who had been a part of our lives ever since we started coming here. Being back for the summer means that her absence is a constant presence. We…
Love a thunderstorm with the promise of blue skies on their way!
07.07.2025 17:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Long walks, enough sleep, lifting weights, knitting, reading, nature, adult food (less sugar & chocolate 🍫 more vegetables & 🐠) not getting involved in drama,
07.07.2025 17:03 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s actually a very lightweight Marino if that makes sense - fingering weight and not fluffy! I’m not putting in the 4 bobbles this time into the triangles
07.07.2025 13:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Core Collection & teacher champions
Last year I wrote about my initiative with our core collection and engaging our middle school teachers in "adopting" a book and helping to promote it. During the analytics for our annual report and to justify repeating the exercise in one of our last staff…
