Featured image is Nephew #3 😁
The skirts in the background are from Handspun Hope
Projects we are working on:
Helen is knitting hers in Standing Stones & Neopolitan
Mary Beth is knitting hers in Lucy and Acorn
Helen is knitting hers in Crookshanks, ROUS and Acorn
Mary Beth is knitting hers in ROUS, I’m Not Really Left Handed, and Mawwiage
Helen is doing hers in Where the Crawdads Sing
Mary Beth is doing hers in Station Eleven
Mary Beth is re-knitting the Knitting at the Library Cowl part 1 by Cori Eichelberger using the Narnia mini skein kit.
Our next knit-along will be the Out and About Shawl by Jennifer Weissman. It takes 5 skeins of DK yarn - we have chosen Jack Pumpkinhead for Mary Beth and Les Reveurs for Helen.
Our upcoming shows are NJ Sheep & Wool Festival (9/7-8), The Catskills Fiber Festival (9/15), The Adirondacks Fiber Festival (9/28) and the First Annual Rhinebeck Yarn Bazaar (10/18)
Books we are currently reading:
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
The Royal Secret by Lucinda Riley
The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
We started and finished The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid on the trip to Chicago - highly recommend listening to that one.
Young Adult series we recommend:
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Adventure Series by Enid Blyton
The Five Children and It by E Nesbit
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
The Diamond in the Window by Jane Langton
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
The Wizard of Oz and other Oz books by L Frank Baum
The Hardy Boys by Franklin W Dixon
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West