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Now You Can Knit and Read At The Same Time!

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twilightRecently I was able to get my meaty little hands on the Twilight Series audiobooks. Before we get into this, I have a confession to make. Yes, I am a Twilight-a-holic. I’ve read the books, seen the movies and now am listening to the audio books. I love to read, and now, with these audio books, I can score some quality knitting time, while being read to by the heat of my wood stove!

This is great, I’m looking forward to more audio books. No wonder my kids always liked it when I read to them! Next up…. Harry Potter! And you can get them all from Random House Audio, here:  http://www.randomhouse.com/audio/features/stephenie-meyer/

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  1. And when you’re looking for audiobooks, great ones, don’t rely only on the big publishers. Many of the best artists are out their creating their own. Take a look at CD Baby’s children’s storytelling section. Random House and Weston Woods and so on have the big budgets for promotion, but there are many of us out there on our own creating great stuff.

    Check out our Tell Me a Story series http://www.mythsandtales.com.

    Check out Simon Brooks on CD Baby, and many more…

    Cheers, Amy Friedman

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Knit a Fish Pouch, for Reasons

I can’t resist a pattern that’s both useful and a little silly, and that’s exactly how I feel about the Rybka pouch pattern from the delightfully named Rat and Sea Witch.

I know you’re going to ask, because I did, too. Rybka means little fish in Polish. (And because you’re also probably going to ask, Rat and Sea Witch comes from people’s attempts to say the designer’s name, Ratasiewicz, which if you say it fast kind of sounds like rat and sea witch.)

It’s easy to make a little fish bag in different sizes to suit your needs. The pattern has specific instructions for an Airpods Pro case and a pencil case, but you could change the length easily to hold more stuff, and change the size in general by working with a different weight of yarn.

The pattern calls for sock yarn and mohair held together to make a fingering weight gauge, but you could try it with heavier yarn and see what size bag you end up with.

Whatever size you make it, this looks like a fun project for holding trinkets or everyday items. The mouth of the fish is the mouth of the bag, and it closes with a drawstring that is also the strap. I wonder, too, if you could make one of these with a small clasp frame that could be the fish’s mouth and then you could just work I cord straps that would attach to the sides of the fish.

I could also see stripes, or fish of different colors to use up your yarn leftovers. How about a sunglasses case with a little loop to attach to your bag? Once you start thinking about all the ways you could use a fish-shaped bag in your life, I think you’ll see that you probably need more than one.

If you make one of these I would love to know how it went!

You can grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Rat and Sea Witch]