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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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Bookish Thursday:The Knitters Book of Yarn

The original plan was to get a copy of The Knitter’s Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn by Clara Parkes at Rhinebeck and get her to sign it. Unfortunately, or fortunately I found that a copy was being sent to me just before I left.
So I waited, and had [...]

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Does This Book Make my Brain Look Fat?

My mission for the next bit is to do some reading and learning. I also plan to get some ‘official’ knitting credentials on my resume starting with the CYCA certified knitting instructors program. With that in mind the following books have been procured and added to my library..

I had planned to buy The Knitter’s Book of [...]

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