Hi all,

I just picked up the new knitting mystery last night -- I'm already 3/4 of the way through. It's called Dropped Dead Stitch by Maggie Sefton. And for you knitters, there is an afghan pattern in the back!

I splurged and got the 3rd crochet mystery by Betty Hetchman "By Hook or Crook" on my lunch break. It looks interesting: a mysterious letter, a disturbing journal entry, and a puzzling piece of filet crochet that has a hidden message.....

I'm reading The Sweetgum Ladies Knit for Love by Beth Pattillo right now. I lucked across it at the bookstore yesterday! Did anyone read the first book in the series? The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society A Novel?

In the second the knitting/reading group is reading the classic romances like Romeo and Juliet, Song of Solomon, Pride and Prejudice, Gone with the Wind, etc.

I was also lucky enough to run across some green eyelash yarn at the dollar store -- yes, $1/skein!! I've been looking for a great deal on this since before Christmas -- I want to knit Alan Dart's Advent Tree http://www.simplyknitting.co.uk/page/sim... only in green..... I wasn't sure how much yarn it called for and ended up with enough for 2 trees! I'll have to make one for a friend too LOL!

read and finished Timeline

now reading Exit Wounds

I'm finding a lot of funky yarn (ribbon, eyelash, lattice ribbon) at the Dollar Tree and Ocean State lately. Must be from stores closing? I use the eyelash yarn to embellish the paper bookmarks - very cool - instead of tassels (and cheaper, although ebay has deals).

finished by JA Jance. really liked it -

here's my review:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/642...

starting


for the Novel Ladies August Read

I am reading Dewey and a biography of Bette Davis

I just finished the first two in a new (for me) series: Kilt Dead and Scone Cold Dead by Kaitlyn Dunnett. I'm currently reading the first in another new series called Sew Deadly by Elizabeth Lynn Casey.

Plus I'm re-reading Casting Spells by Barbara Bretton so I can read the 2nd book in her series that just came out: Laced with Magic.

I keep thinking I should read dewey but then I hear it's depressing so I avoid it..... just like Marley and me and so on.... :-\ I actually have a cat named Dewey, he's all black though (except a white spot on his belly). I have two orange tiger cats though (also with white).

I also managed to work on my mermaid cross stitch again last night!! :-D

Just started reading A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch. I love it so far!

I have been looking for Casting Spells by Barbara Bretton and have had no luck, but i will not give up. Most of my reading is based on knitting novels. I have read Maggie Sefton, Debbie Macomber, I am currently reading While My Pretty One Knits by Anne Candeo, I have also read Kate Jacobs and Anne Bartlett. Anyway I hope to find more books by being a part of this group. Take care all!