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Bookish Thursday: Going Straight

I recently purchased a copy of Going Straight by Ruth Paisley aka Wooly Wormhead on Lulu.

Buying books through Lulu is nice because  you have the option to buy the book as a pdf and download it or buy it as a regular book with various binding options. To top it  off the packaging the Lulu [...]

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Bookish Thursday: Mary Thomas’s Book of Knitting Patterns

If you will recall, among the pile of books I had lined up to read was Mary Thomas’s Book of Knitting Patterns. This one is an oldie but a goodie. You can tell from this book that Mary Thomas was a very organized person. I am almost certain she did not suffer from knitting ADD. [...]

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Bookish Thursday: Twinkles Weekend Knits

Well last week I promised you the book that made me go SQEEEEEE!!! When this one hit my hot little hands I knew we would be friends!
Remember this?:

Well enter it’s match! Twinkle’s Weekend Knits: 20 Fast Designs for Fun Getaways

Wenlan Chia fashion designer/ knitting designer has done it again. A book full of knits with [...]

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Bookish Thursday: Classic Knits at Home

Classic Knits at Home: 15 Timeless Designs to Knit and Keep Forever by Erika Knight is a great little book full of projects to make your home sweet home… sweeter! As soon as this book hit my desk I was hooked. The first project that struck my eye, was the Houndstooth Cushion pattern. I have been [...]

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Bookish? Thursday: How Elizabeth Zimmerman helped me get my laundry done

You can only ignore your laundry so long.. Then the piles start to attack! The kids start running around the house naked. and you can’t find something decent to wear.
Sigh.
Just when will the invent self cleaning laundry?
Enter.. Elizabeth Zimmerman.
Yes.. Elizabeth Zimmerman. See she must have foreseen that I would need something to do whilst endlessly [...]

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