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[callmemadam]

white_hart that is, with her heads up about the Get Knitted sale. My new sock yarn arrived yesterday and looks like this.



It's the first time I've bought from them and thought the service was very good. Plus free sock pattern (won't be using), pattern for 'gift pouch', pen and sweeties. Some of this yarn is earmarked for knitting socks as presents. Meanwhile it's spurred me on to start the pair to this



which is knitted in Lana Grossa Cotton Fun. I knitted as I mean to go on: furiously all evening.

I've just finished reading The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber. A good idea, this, cashing in on the knitting boom by setting the story of four women in a yarn store. Not enough detail about the knitting for my taste but I see that the next book in the series, The Yarn Store, has a lot about sock knitting so I might persevere.

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[white_hart]

Mine turned up yesterday, too, and I'm very pleased with it. I like Get Knitted, and have always had good service from them (although we now have an awful lot of pens, and the free sock patterns just go straight into the recycling!).

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I should have said thank you! I'm pleased with what I got, too. Considering it was pot luck, the colours are just right for me.

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

Books about knitting are clearly taking off. When I was at home in the UK over Easter I read one called 'Divas Don't Knit' and I read another in the US earlier this year 'Died in the Wool' which was a murder mystery set in a wool shop. Both quite fun. As I recall the murder story actually had more detail about the knitting.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I've heard of Diva's don't Knit but not the other one. Thanks, I'll look out for it.