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I have never used Noro yarns or knit these patterns, but this book is filled with wonderful and fun projects for the fashion knitter and I will try one using Noro yarn.   The colors are amazing as are the patterns. …

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Little Felted Animals by Marie-Noelle Horvath is a sweetheart of a book for beginner needle felters, with projects that are well illustrated and it gives the beginner a chance at making a charming product your first time.  Create 16 Irresistible…

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Fun Felt Crafts by Tina Skinner is a fabulous book for those of us that love felting.  This book is published by Schiffer Books and they were kind enough to send me a copy to giveaway to one of you. …

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Katerina Lauer (number picked by Random.org) is the winner of our amazing book giveaway “Barbara Albright’s, The Natural Knitter” thanks to Random House Books. Congratulations Katerina and I know you will enjoy this book. Katerina has a blog called, “Find Katerina” if…

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This is a very bittersweet review of Barbara Albright’s “The Natural Knitter”.  Barbara wrote both knitting and cooking books.  Sadly she died last fall of a brain tumor at the age of 51. This was her last book, and regrettable…

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No matter what your fiber of choice, you will stockpile inspiration from Karen Bartolomei’s “Paperie for Inspired Living”.  First off this book is a beautiful hard covered addition for your library and brilliantly illustrated.  Each page holds divine designs…

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I am happy to announce that Eleanor of Undeadgoat (Her Blog) was the last number picked.  I hope she enjoys this book and make some awesome things and shares them with us.  Thanks to everyone that enters the contests and hang…

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When I received this book and first thumbed through all the projects, the words “up-cycling and recycling” kept popping into my mind.  Sherri uses many items that we have stockpiled in our crafting areas that can be used to create…

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Faith, Hope, Love, Knitting by Lorna Miser, is a charming book that it’s almost an autobiographical knitting project book. Lorna invites us to join her on her self-discovery trip. When she was a little girl her desire to knit was…

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Nikola went to the farm to see the animals up close, but she so a group of women making fuzzy hats and poking crazy needles into the fluffy pieces of fiber. She relates that she almost knocked everyone over…

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Jayne Emerson, the author of this book has graciously consented to give one of her copies of “Simple Needlefelt” for this giveaway.  She lives in the UK and we all realize that shipping out of our country is not that easy,…

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Thank you all for entering our package giveaway! It’s so very hard to pick winners in any of our giveaways and we depend on random.org to pick the winners. I wish you all could win! Sheryl is our winner…

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A major thanks to search press, I have another delightful book titled ”needle felted figures” by Bodil Nederby, and Arlene, of Wild Wool Farm an ETSY shop for her generous gift of a “Starter Needle Felting Kit Complete…

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This book is a must have book, “Beginner’s Guide to Needle Felting” By:  Susanna Wallis, was sent to me by Joan of Search Press and now I will be sending it out to one of you! There are so many fun projects…

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One of my favorite pastimes is going to one of the larger bookstores and thumbing through all the craft magazines on the stands.  Drugstores carry very few crafty magazines, but the big bookstores carry racks of our…

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