This past year I kept track of the books I read (either with a physical book, or audiobook). I only started keeping track in May, so I may have missed some that I read at the start of the year.
May and earlier:
Claire’s Head by Catherine Bush (I love her writing style. The main character [...]
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Books 2008
Posted in Blog, Books on January 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Review: Palette Collection Series 087/219 Flinders
Posted in Books, Crochet, Knitting, Swatch, Yarn on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fiber content: 50% Acrylic 50% Tencel
1 Ball Contains: 50g, 105 yards/96m
Price: I think the original price was $3.99, but I got this yarn on clearance at Zellers. $0.71 for 11 of the balls, then, later, $0.59 for more.
Weight and Type: Aran, plied. A little splitty and not completely smooth. Ravelry link
Label’s Gauge and Needle [...]
BitterSweet Cupcakes
Posted in Books, Crochet, Finished Objects on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I don’t think I ever showed these off. Cupcakes are a common pattern with many, many ways to make them, but this pattern comes from the Vegan Goddess of Amigurumi, BitterSweet. Her blog not only has knitting and crochet patterns, but also gorgeous photography of food and other forms of crafting like sewing. She even [...]
Alice
Posted in Books, Knitting, Work in Progress on August 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It was either Monday or Tuesday that I got it in my head to start looking around for yarn to make Alice. I went to Micheal’s first and looked at the yarn, mostly the Lion Brand Cotton-Ease. At first I wanted to make it red and black like the pattern, but Cotton-Ease has charcoal, not [...]
Book Love
Posted in Blog, Books, Yarn on June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t think I ever talked about Stephanie Pearl McPhee’s book, Knitting Rules. Actually, she has more than one, but this is the only one that I have so far. I’m mentioning her now because I just read her blog, and it reminded me how much I love being in this knitting community online, and [...]
Crochet Me
Posted in Books, Crochet on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen anything decent for crochet in the form of a published book since, well, actually since I bought Debbie Stoller’s Happy Hooker book back in 2005. The one that I learned to crochet with. So I was really excited to hear about this:
Crochet Me: Designs to Fuel [...]
They Know!
Posted in Books, Knitting, Work in Progress on April 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I haven’t mentioned it before, but I also write reviews for a friend’s gaming site, Critical Hits, as Elena99. I scrolled down today to look at the past posts, and there is a knitting book in the Amazon.com ads. For Wendy Knits, which I don’t own. CH has nothing to do with knitting, I’m sure [...]
Amy Singer’s No Sheep for You
Posted in Books, Knitting, Yarn on March 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Even though I don’t have the book yet, I joined the knit-a-long:
I signed up under the name Amethyst, but haven’t posted yet.
No Sheep for You, as the name implies, is a pattern book that focuses on fibers that do not come from sheep; cotton, linen, soy, bamboo, hemp, corn, rayon, seacell and modal. There are [...]
Why cheap craft books are cheap
Posted in Books, Crochet, Knitting on February 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I work in a call center, and one of the programs (which I have vowed never to work for, because it has the worst people calling in) is Reader’s Digest. During this past week, they were selling RD products in the lunch room; music, DVDs, books, pens, etc. Unfortunately, this started early in the morning, [...]
