Time to #ShareCPLove for today! I have a distinct memory from when I was a kid. It was 1980 and we had recently moved from Southern California to Tucson, Arizona (site of one of those Twilight Zones that just stuck creepily with me for years, making me Very Nervous in Tucson when I started driving by myself at night—which makes it all the odder that I do narrations for Chilling Tales for Dark Nights... but that’s a different story). April...

Becky Herrick and her friend Calley Hastings have a new book coming from Cooperative Press! The book is near and dear to my heart not only because Becky designed for What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit, but also because her book combines patterns and recipes (like WWMDfK?). They focus on local ingredients and American made yarns throughout the seasons because the chapters each focus on a new month with a pattern or two and a recipe or three....

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....

Pre-orders are OPEN today! Right now! On Hunter’s new adventure—a Curly one! Go here: www.violentlydomestic.com Head on over and order in an orderly pre-fashion (now that an hour and 19 minutes of stampede is over and the server has bounced back from it’s overwhelmed crash — could have been the goody bags for the first 250 folks who bought the paper copy (there still might be a few left if eveyrone else went digital… worth a...

Have a Look at Lot 9 — Sweaters, Hats and Memoir Bidding for Lots 7, 8, & 9 begins at 3pm EDT Friday—June 27, 2014—and ends promptly at 6pm EDT To enter to win, please put your bid in the comments below. Highest bid at 6pm wins. One knitting bag is included with this lot—seen in picture above. Knit 2 Together: Patterns and Stories for Serious Knitting Fun Drunk, Divorced & Covered in Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures of a...

Have a Look at Lot 8 — Lace Knitting Bidding for Lots 7, 8, & 9 begins at 3pm EDT Friday—June 27, 2014—and ends promptly at 6pm EDT To enter to win, please put your bid in the comments below. Highest bid at 6pm wins. One knitting bag is included with this lot—seen in picture above. Victorian Lace Today Handmade Lace and Patterns Lace Style Only One Way to Win! The Rules: Read through the comments below to see what the bidding is up to. If...