Books received, and books given away....

Look what I received from my wonderful friend Lisa!

  

She was giving it away on her blog and I was the lucky recipient!!  This book is chock full of wonderful designs.  Scarves, cowls, stoles and shawls.  Texture, colorwork and lace!  This fair isle scarf really caught my eye:

   

You know you love a pattern when you are visualizing what colors you will use from your stash to make it.  Know what I mean?  I'm sure you'll be seeing this in my "queue" really soon.  Thanks again Lisa!  Lovely book.

Okay - we're going to talk about cross-stitch again.  Here I was putting my new book away, and what did I notice on my (there's not any room left) shelf?  Lookie:

 

I obviously love this book since I seem to have purchased two of them!  Here's a better look at it:

 

Inside?

 

 

Don't you just love that ladybug?  Why, you ask, am I showing you this book in detail?  Well, because I'm going to give it to one of you!!!  Lisa gave me a book, now I'll give you a book!  Just leave a comment (and let me know if you don't want the book too) and I'll pick a winner by "random number generator". What the heck is that anyway?  :)  Leave a comment before Sunday, November 30th.  I'll announce the winner on December 1st.  Good luck!!!

I'll leave you with the status of my zebras I am doing from Jane Netley Mayhew's book:

 

Yep - may never finish it... but there you go.

OH - I have knitting to show, but not today - boo hoo.  Happy Thanksgiving Tomorrow!!  Enjoy!

Comments

[Loopykd]

I did not know about the scarf book! I would love that.

[Toni]

Wow, cross stitch--was knitting going along too speedily for you? I do have a cross-stitch project that I started about 2 years ago & I do work on it once in a while--and will probably finish it in about 10 years. Come to think of it, I have a knitted lace project that's doing along at about that speed. Size 0 needles--what was I thinking?????

[Marion]

I would love to have your extra cross stitch book! Most of the cross stitch I have done has been kits, mostly Charles Wysocki kits.

The book you won is really neat too. I haven't tried any color work like fair isle, but I think I would like to. Maybe I should start with mittens? a scarf?