We feel a bit knitting-adjacent this week - we're talking about buttons, and answering a Dear Scratch letter about cozy mysteries!


** Alternatives to buttons:**



Shawl pins - https://www.etsy.com/search?q=shawl%20pins (https://www.etsy.com/search?q=shawl%20pins)

Screw in closures - https://juldesigns.com/screw-in-closures/ (https://juldesigns.com/screw-in-closures/)

Holeless Buttons - https://www.purlandhank.com/shop-online/hole-less-buttons (https://www.purlandhank.com/shop-online/hole-less-buttons)

Sweater clips - https://www.etsy.com/search?q=sweater+clips (https://www.etsy.com/search?q=sweater+clips)




Knitting themed cozy mysteries:



Peggy Ehrhart: Knit & Nibble Mystery Series

Sally Goldenbaum - Seaside Knitters Mystery Series

Seaside Knitters Society

Maggie Sefton: A Knitting Mystery series

Allie Pleiter: A Riverbank Knitting Mystery




Other themes:



Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

Karen Menuhin: Heathcliff Lennox Series

Alexia Gordon: Gethsemane Brown Mysteries

M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin series




What's on our needles this week:


https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sunshine-on-my-shoulders-3 (Sunshine On My Shoulders) by Lissy Jane

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/only-ocean (Only Ocean) by Sylvia McFadden




Summer Knitalong - CABLES!

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! We cast on June 1, and there's definitely still time to join us - we hope you will!

#makegoodcables (no year, please!)


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