Feb 16, 2011

yarn along finally no mittens!!!

~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading, and the evidence of this often shows up in my photographs. I love seeing what other people are knitting and reading as well. So, what are you knitting or crocheting right now? What are you reading? Take a single photo and share it~ Ginny
this week I've started crocheting sweater - no pattern, no actual plans, just crocheting in a round... I wanted to knit - really badly wanted to knit, but the yarn is too thin for my thick needles and now when I crochet it's making pretty pattern so I think it was meant to be this way :)

reading: 13 1/2 Lives of captain Bluebear - highly recommended!

" A yarn of drollery, deeper meaning and sheer lunacy" ~ Rolling Stone

"Moer's creative mind is like J.K Rowling's on ecstasy" ~ Detroit News

"Marvellously fantastical" ~ Sunday Express

/those of you who are here strictly to see what I'm knitting/crocheting/reading right now feel free to stop here and proceed to write a comment :) - I love hearing from you...those who want to learn more about that amazing book keep reading as I feel obliged to tell you more/



there are huge illustrations, sometimes on two pages, but there's also a picture of a city on 6 pages or a crocodile similarly long...

there are side notes such as "cocoa on tap" or "a good idea"or "the 2364th dimension"


and the text! geeez I love how they use different fonts and sizes - on this page there was a big spider coming closer, that's why you hear the boom! louder and louder! ...etc. ...

amazing book!


/I ' smudged the text because it wasn't important and because I wasn't sure if it would interfere with authors's rights or not...just read the whole book/

10 comments:

  1. I love your yarn! And the book has definitely intrigued me!

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  2. Your plan for the sweater is so freeing...yay you!

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  3. I love those kind of make it up as you go along patterns! The colours of the yarn work really well in crochet too!

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  4. Oh my gosh! That book looks like a hoot! I'll have to look for it...

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  5. Sounds like a fun read~ I better check it out! Can't wait to see how your sweater turns out :o)

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  6. The book looks really interesting! I like your inventive style of making a sweater :)

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  7. You finished the mittens!
    Love the yarn you're using for the sweater!
    That book looks amazing!! Thanks for sharing the extra details on it!

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  8. what a great book, and crochet, oy!! the yarn is scrumptious :)

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  9. I like the yarn color it looks so fun. Love the pictures in the book.

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  10. I had forgotten this book! I read it when I was a college student almost six years ago and neglected studies to finish it! You made my day by listing it here!!

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