Show Notes
We feel a bit knitting-adjacent this week - we're talking about buttons, and answering a Dear Scratch letter about cozy mysteries!
** Alternatives to buttons:**
Shawl pins - https://www.etsy.com/search?q=shawl%20pins
Screw in closures - https://juldesigns.com/screw-in-closures/
Holeless Buttons - https://www.purlandhank.com/shop-online/hole-less-buttons
Sweater clips - https://www.etsy.com/search?q=sweater+clips
Knitting themed cozy mysteries:
Peggy Ehrhart: Knit & Nibble Mystery Series
Sally Goldenbaum - Seaside Knitters Mystery Series
Seaside Knitters Society
Maggie Sefton: A Knitting Mystery series
Allie Pleiter: A Riverbank Knitting Mystery
Other themes:
Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Karen Menuhin: Heathcliff Lennox Series
Alexia Gordon: Gethsemane Brown Mysteries
M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin series
What's on our needles this week:
Sunshine On My Shoulders by Lissy Jane
Only Ocean by Sylvia McFadden
Summer Knitalong - CABLES!
Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! We cast on June 1, and there's definitely still time to join us - we hope you will!
#makegoodcables (no year, please!)
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