Book Review Of The Month: June: Chicks With Sticks: Knitwise June 21, 2008

Avid fans, we have come to the end of the Chicks Trilogy.  In the final installment of the high-school saga, the four friends are “staring down the end of high school” and wondering (or at least Scottie is) if this will be the end of their quartet.  The book begins at Movies In The Park, where we learn that Scottie is making a memory quilt… Will the Chicks survive the new principal, venomous quilters, Bella’s search for a seinor service project, Tay’s new joint custody , Amanda’s debutante duty, and Scottie’s college fears?

Personally, I thought this book was pretty good, the best of the Chicks. (exept for a few pages I skipped.  Call me a wimp,  but I will not read that stuff!)  I thought the author tied up the loose ends that confused me in the first and second books.  If you read the first two, you have to read the last one.  I especially liked Scottie’s college woes and her service project, along with the French Fry Bus, Amanda’s designs, and, well, I always just plain enjoyed reading about Tay.  Don’t worry if you’re sick of chick lit, ’cause next moth will be a very different story!  (Pardon my pun! I couldn’t resist.)  Well, I hope you had fun with these books.  I sure did!

TTFN,

Wildwool (a.k.a. Lily)

 

Book Review of the Month: Chicks With Sticks: Knit Two Together May 21, 2008

The second installmant in  the Chicks saga is not for the un-boy-crazy.  Unless, like me, you despise the kissy-kissy parts, and are reading this book to find out what happens to our favorite four teenage knitters:  Scottie, Amanda, Bella, and Tay.  That said, you’ll probobly love this book if you are boy-crazy.  Anyway, Knit Two Together is about Scottie’s struggle to get herself a boyfriend, while still keeping her friends and her love of knitting.  She has a really hard time!  Things climax at YarnCon Chicago, a knitting (and mostly girly) festival.  She almost loses her friends, and, strangely enough, it’s the day before Bella’s b-day.  Scottie goes home in the middle of the festival, makes things right with the guy she likes (who lives in the same building), then goes to sleep.  She sleeps the day away, and, after seeing one of her mom’s paintings, she goes to Bella’s sleepover…. Well, I can’t tell you the rest, but I think you’ll like the end.  More later!

TTFN, Wildwool a.k.a. Lily

Grape Juice @ halfway mark!!!!!!!!!!! May 12, 2008

Grape Juice, the hat I’m knitting, has passed the halfway mark!  Woohoo!  Any other hat knitters out there?  Talk to me!  Someone please tell me how to post pics, I can’t figure it out.  Thanks!

 

 

Pattern of the Month: May: Collinette Shrug from Chic Knits for Young Chicks May 8, 2008

Hey, Becky!  This is for you.  If you have a wordpress blog, please post your username in a comment, because (if you want to)  I’m inviting you to write for wildwool.  Here’s the pattern.

Collinette Shrug

Materials:  156 yards of a ribbon yarn, such as Collinette Giotto or Party, sraight needles, #17, and, (optional)  crochet hook, size J, and 60 yards eyelash yarn, such as Sullivan’s Tickle or FunFur.

CO 40 sts with ribbon yarn.

Rows 1-115:  Sl1, *yo, k2tog,* repeat 18 more times, k1.

BO all sts.

Fold up corners and, using mattress stitch or back stitch, seam together, leaving openings for armholes.

Using crochet hook, single crochet with eyelash yarn around all openings for 2 rnds.

Glossary:  CO=cast on, Sl1=slip one, yo=yarn over, k2tog=knit 2 together, k1=knit one, BO=bind off, sts=stitches. 

k&b April 10, 2008

Hey, fans, k&b stands for knitting & books.  Just so you know.