Felt so Good? (Oh, my goodness. Yes, yes it did.) Felt so Good: 70+ Felted and Plain Wool Designs for You and Your Home by Tone Rørseth is a book that made me want to felt. Well, more specifically, go out and find some Nepal Wool Felt and some Wool Felt by the Yard and dig out the craft felt and and and… Full disclosure: I have needle and noro felted—in classes and on my own—and I very much enjoyed it… but it never really stuck....

(If you got the CraftLit September update today, you’ve already seen this—just FYI). So, so much has happened in the last month in my complete world (as opposed to my knitting world) that I needed to share—since some of it may affect you, too. Big Bleak Weekend Event! Wanna chat about the awesomeness of Bleak House? In real time?!? FACE to FACE?! You’re invited whether you read the book on your own or listened via CraftLit’s...

OOH! OOH! OOH! Mister Kotter!! I have a solution! So, book riot released this a week and a half ago (and I just saw it, thank you, Heatherly): 20 Books You Pretend to Have Read. Of course, because of CraftLit I was intrigued. Then, scrolling down past the top twenty-lied-about-books, a reader shared this graphic: So. I humbly present my solutions for the world’s lying-about-reading conundrum: Listen to Audiobooks with Benefits!**...

Marie Grace Berg—the most enthusiastic business woman I’ve ever had the pleasure of talking with—has released the interview she did with me awhile back for her show Today’s Leading Women. If you want to hear a bit about the business side of CraftLit and the Defarge books, you can have a listen by clicking the button above or going here TodaysLeadingWomen.com/heather-ordover or to iTunes...

Next week is a very big week for me. We start Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South on Friday on CraftLit. I have a whole week of giveaways and fun planned for that week, too! More on that shortly (or to get the info before everyone else… sign up here to get the giveaway news for the CraftLit “North and South” launch Then on Sunday, February 9th at 10am, I’m presenting at the Blogger Book Fair! Everyone is invited to...

Next up in 2014 on CraftLit: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell –as read by Barbara Edelman exclusively for CraftLit! And why? Because of this And this interview with professor Larry...