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I live in Ithaca, upstate New York, which is at the mouth of Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes (wine country). Too bad I don't drink wine!! I have been out on the lake several times: on a tour boat, a friend's sailboat, and SUP (stand-up paddleboarding) which was as much a swimming experience as a paddling experience. Great Summer fun. :D
Hi Everyone! I just found this group combining two of my favorite activities, reading and knitting...how awesome!I am from North Carolina and have been knitting for many years off and on. My Ravelry name is amomoftwins.
Welcome, Lisa! The group is picking up. Check out our reviews on our best books and add your own.
Welcome. Hope you enjoy being a part of this community.I've been knitting and crocheting since forever. My mother knit beautifully and I was curious how she did it. She started teaching me to knit when I was 6-7 years old.
My grandmother loved making dresser scarves and i was around 10 when she started to teach me how to crochet. My favorite pattern has always been the one she used for her dresser scarves. I've adapted this pattern to various other items. The most beautiful of them all was a 70" by 130" tablecloth. Right now I'm working on a square tablecloth - 100" square, for my daughter's beautiful dining room table.
Mary wrote: "Welcome. Hope you enjoy being a part of this community.I've been knitting and crocheting since forever. My mother knit beautifully and I was curious how she did it. She started teaching me to kni..."
We are trying to revive it again and your expertise with crochet adds a new dimension. I have a hand crochet bedspread that an aunt made. I marvel at all the stitches in it.
That is a huge tablecloth! How long did it take you to make it? I would love to have one to fit an antique table that is not a standard size, but I'd never get one done. I started one about 30 years ago and I have a big pile of motifs that I made, but I can't think where they are just now. I need to get them and sew them together and see what they might fit.
Do you have any crochet/knit books you particularly like? We have a page for people to list theirs and write a review.
Marti wrote: "saint louis MO, originally Miami FL"Welcome! I lived in Overland, MO many years ago. Are you familiar with it?
Alexandra wrote: "Hi everyone - I'm Alex from Brisbane in Australia which is a bit of a silly place to like knitting because it is so blinking hot most of the time. I grew up in Canberra - a much cooler climate with..."I live in North Florida and have the same problem of loving to knit in a hot climate. I have been doing a lot of charity knitting and knitting for relatives in colder climates. Thank goodness for online knitting shops, but it is not the same thing as seeing and touching the real thing.
I live in Florida and love knitting and reading.
Columbia, MD, halfway between Baltimore and the District. A great area for knitting, lots of local groups meeting weekly or every 2 weeks.
I'm from the Jersey Shorejust outside of Ocean City, NJ.
I'm from Northwest Arkansas. My sister has been trying to get me to take up knitting forever! Now the bug seems to have bitten!
Hello from Bremerton, WA! I started in Southern California, then several years in Seattle (with a summer on Bainbridge Island), and finally bought a house in Bremerton. I still work in downtown Seattle so the 1 hour ferry commute gives me quite a bit of reading and knitting time.
Hello everyone, I'm from Piemonte, north of Italy, and I live in a small town between the Alps and Mediterraneo sea. Glad to find this group!
Hi - I'm from Santa Cruz, California. Just found this group! :)
I live in New Jersey just outside of NYC.
I’m in the Adelaide hills, South Australia 👋🏼
I'm from Gainesville, FL. Originally from Winston-Salem, NC.
I’m from Buffalo originally, but now I live north of Orlando Fl.
I'm a Chicago native, have lived in various places in the US, but now reside near San Francisco, CA.
Shaftesbury in Dorset , SW region of England
Kingston, OntarioI LOVE listening to audible books while knitting. Just finished Fellowship Point!
I am in Los Angeles, CALoved to read since I was a little girl. I always have a book started in hand and an audio for when I am cleaning the house and walking my dogs. Twice the fun LOL
I live in Vaasa, Finland. I'm a swedishspeaking finn and read mostly in Swedish an English.
I'm in Nelson, new Zealand. I love reading and also learning new skills. Just came back to knitting after 25 years.
I'm in Canton, Ohio. I seem to always have someone who wants a pair of socks, so never get around to knitting all the beautiful sweaters out there. I wish there was a way to knit and read at the same time, (Yes, I know, audiobooks. I'm a retired audio visual librarian.) I just really like to read a book.
Kathie wrote: "I'm in Canton, Ohio. I seem to always have someone who wants a pair of socks, so never get around to knitting all the beautiful sweaters out there. I wish there was a way to knit and read at the sa..."I'm with you, Kathie. Always a battle whether to read or knit. I like "real" books with a spine, too . . .
So glad this group is active again. I think I posted many years ago, so to reintroduce my location - I'm in Brooklyn, NY. I enjoy real books also, but my tbr list is huge. Audiobooks is the way to go for me.At my last Knit Night, a crocheter & avid reader said she gets through her audiobooks so quickly by listening to them at about 1.75x or 2.00x . I can't do that. If a book is boring, I'll go to 1.25x, otherwise, I like the performances of the narrators.
I live in Washington, DC, right next to Rock Creek Park. I have eclectic tastes in books, and especially enjoy narrative nonfiction, contemporary literature, and Buddhist books but love a good mystery, too. :) Both audio and real. Tiffany, I have found myself slowing down audiobook speeds just a touch sometimes with nonfiction; otherwise, it just whizzes in one ear and out the other! Helpful when knitting/multitasking.
I live in Pasadena and retired as a botanical garden librarian. I still run the Arboretum Knitters and Makers Group and the Reading the Western Landscape Community Book Discussion, so this group reflects that double interest. Currently crocheting a triple spiral rag rug out of the worn-out work shirts and pants. Also currently judging for the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Literature Award. That'sa lotta reading. Pshew!
I would love to hear more about your rag rug. I live in 🇨🇦 and enjoy recycling old clothes. My email is madeanike@gmail.com
I am from Kilmarnock, Virginia, on the Chesapeake Bay. Knitting and listening to books is my main hobby when not working at our local library. So glad to have found this group! Alice
currently living in Kalamazoo Mi, moved from Northern California in September and loving it. I am a knitter and found a small knitting group here with some lovely women.
Coucou à tous! Apryl (from York, PA, USA) living near Aix-en-Provence, France. Finally taking a moment to say hello, and glad to know there are so many book lovers amongst us ;0)I like to listen to audio books as I knit. Love the classics, including the Chronicles of Narnia, any of C S Lewis's works, Charles Dickens, Jane Austin, Les Miserables (although listening to French requires focus & attention--fatiguing for me!), James Michener, Alex Haley's "Roots" was so powerful! Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master & Margarita" was nuts, and Leo Buscaglia is pure LOVE <3
Currently getting a wake-up call with Dana K White's "How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets" There is hope ;0)
hi 👋 Glad to have you among the knitter-readers here on GR! The snow has finally melted here in MN and I am still working on a wool pullover While reading Delia Ephron's 'Siracusa'; finished 'Left on Tenth' for book club last month.
Hello knitting readers/reading knitters! Missed the notification that there was action on the board til just now. I'm from outside Boston Massachusetts. In a bit of a knitting lull at the moment, but still reading. Mostly cozy mysteries, though we recently discovered Arnaldur Indridason (Scandi-noir-ish police procedurals). Looking forward to hearing about projects and books from all of you
I had to go through and see if I posted yet and I feel bad, I have not. Hello, I am Vanessa in Ohio, mom of two teen girls, married 20 years to my DH. I knit and crochet, taught my girls both and they both like crochet better lol, I like them both equally these days, I use to not like crocheting. I miss reading, honestly, I have hit a dry spell, BUT when I read I love suspense romance, mystery romance, and anything that catches my interest. I use to review ALL kinds of books from Bibles to horror, history romance, kids, and teens. These days I am extremely busy so will try to check in from time to time and try to read a book soon, I miss it.
Hello all, It’s ages since there was any activity in this group. So pleased to see your posts.
I’m Annie, live in the Netherlands, read a lot, often feelgood, cosy mysteries. I knit, crochet, spin. My name on the internet is weaverannie, because I love to weave.
At the moment my health is not so good, so I don’t have the energy for all that. I don’t like the heat so much…
Most of the books I read are in Dutch, so you may not know these titles. I like books about books, libraries, animals.
I’ll try to visit here if I don’t forget.
Julie wrote: "hi 👋 Glad to have you among the knitter-readers here on GR! The snow has finally melted here in MN and I am still working on a wool pullover While reading Delia Ephron's 'Siracusa'; finished 'Left ..."weaverannie wrote: "Hello all,
It’s ages since there was any activity in this group. So pleased to see your posts.
I’m Annie, live in the Netherlands, read a lot, often feelgood, cosy mysteries. I knit, crochet, spin..."
L J wrote: "Hello knitting readers/reading knitters! Missed the notification that there was action on the board til just now. I'm from outside Boston Massachusetts. In a bit of a knitting lull at the moment, b..."
Hi LJ,
Since you mentioned Arnaldur Indridason, I'll suggest a couple other Scandinavian authors I've enjoyed...Henning Mankell, Jo Nesbo, Karin Fossum, Camilla Lackberg, and Ake Edwardson.
I, too, am in sort of a knitting funk due to arthritis in my hands and wrists. Can't get as much knitting done as I used to, but am sure doing more reading!
I am so sorry weaverannie to hear about your health , mine has been bad my whole life so I get it. I have never been to Netherlands , my parents got to go , I just went to Germany :) . I will look into your books I can't read anything but English but I like to see what others read.
Many of the Brooks I read have been translaties grom English. So if you look up any books I read it’s easy to find the English titel on Goodreads. At the moment I read Moord in het Kattencafé, written by Cate Conte. English titel: Cat about town. It’s the fitst of a series of 7 titles.
This horrible autocorrect! This is what I wrote:Many of the books I read have been translated from English, so if you look up title or author on Goodreads it’s easy to find the English title.
At the moment I read Moord in het Kattencafé, the first title of a series of seven, written by Cate Conte. English title: Cat about town.
Nice cozy mystery.
Now let’s hope Goodreads lets you read this without all these funny changes.
To be honest: Goodreads seems not to like me so much: when I try to write something, my message doesn’t show up and is gone forever, or is unreadable because so many words were ‘corrected’. So annoying.
I was so pleased to see this group active again! What are you reading?
weaverannie wrote: "This horrible autocorrect! This is what I wrote:Many of the books I read have been translated from English, so if you look up title or author on Goodreads it’s easy to find the English title.
At t..."
As of right now I just get knitting and crochet books looking for inspiration . I have spend my whole summer driving and trying to keep up with my house and our German Shepard. This winter I have a list of books to read though lol.
I’m Anne “with an E” as one of my favorite characters says. I’ve been off and on this discussion group for years. Hopefully we can keep it going this time. I live in North Florida on Amelia Island, and I’ve been here for 30 years. The rest of my life I travel from pillar to post. Virginia and Mississippi have had the biggest impact on my life. Mississippi is my father‘s home and I have a gaggle of cousins, aunts and uncles there, so it will always be home. I have the same problem as others who live in a hot climate. We get enough cold weather to make it practical to knit hats and gloves. We have some 40° temperatures in the night and about every four or five years it freezes. Right now it’s quite cold and we’re all hoping it will get colder because the mosquitoes, ticks fleas, and all sorts of vermin are terrible.
Someone mentioned, wanting to be able to read and knit at the same time. I’ve done it since I first learned to knit when I was about 12. My mother always and read and knitted and when I first learned to knit, I was so excited I didn’t want to put my needles down to go to bed, so I knit in the dark. The next morning I had to rip everything out, but I did it again and again, and soon I was proficient. I’ve talked to the number of people who read and knit, and almost all are continental knitters. I think it’s because when you throw the yarn, you move your hand off the needle and it’s not easy to pick up the next stitch. Find somebody to teach you and you’ll be living your life in double time.
I knit for charity and for my loved ones who live in the colder climate I love Fair Isle and this year I plan on focusing on intarsia. I said that a number of years and never did very well but this year I’ll be more dedicated.
Hello Anne, I too read and knit, which was a great bonus when I had pages of government legislation to wade through. I throw my yarn with my right hand but don’t remove my hand from the needle so not slow at all.
I originally wanted to get married in blue, but found the perfect dress in Ivory, and decided to knit a blue shawl to keep my old vision and my new one together. <3 I'm so excited!