To Knit or Not to Knit: Helpful and Humorous Hints for the Passionate Knitter by Elvira Woodruff

I like books about knitting.  I do not mean pattern books, which I do love, but aren’t what I am referring to here.  I mostly mean memoirs or essays.  I also read novels that involve knitting, but they aren’t my favorite.  Most of the novels I’ve come across are genre series, a category of books I do not often read, regardless of knitting references, as I tend to get bored with them after a couple books.  There’s not a lot of knitting memoir and essay books out there, so a couple months ago, I went poking around on Amazon to see if I could find any that I had not read.  I looked in the “Coming Soon” list and found To Knit or Not to Knit (Is that even a legitimate question?!  Of course there will be knitting!).  It sounded interesting, so I pre-ordered it and then forgot all about it until it arrived on my doorstep a week ago, a couple days before the official release date.  Since I was in the midst of dealing with Pepper’s health, I did not get to read it until last night.  I’m sorry that it took me so long to get to it, as I quite enjoyed the book!

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Begonia Swirl Shawl

I finished the Begonia Swirl Shawl before the July 13, 2014 deadline for completing Order of the Phoenix Missions!!  Unfortunately, when I submitted my B.R.O.O.M. to propose my Mission, I specifically said that I would be completing a shawl of at least 800 yards.  I didn’t think this would be a problem as the pattern said it would take 822 yards.  I ended up using less than 800 yards, so my shawl couldn’t count for full points, even though it was done by the deadline.  I turned it in for partial points anyway.

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WIP Thursday

I am a day late with my weekly status report!  In addition to out-of-town guests at my house from Sunday through Wednesday, I was dealing with Pepper’s health emergency.  She’s going to be okay, but it took three visits to the vet in as many days.  As a result of the guest and the cat, I did no fiber crafting at all for the past few days.  I was making progress before that, though.

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