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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: 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: 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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Nearly Finished Friday!

I should be able to finish these up tonight! Which is good, I need to show them off on Tuesday.. and then sell them on Sunday!

I restarted on Brian’s Sweater! It is slow going I need to get through one repeat of the cables and then I will have a solid picture of what I [...]

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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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