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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 Little Fish to Use Your Yarn Scraps

I rarely understand why something becomes a trend in crafting. Gnomes and geese are both cute I guess, but I never thought we’d be making them for all seasons. (See, for example, this collection of gnome knitting patterns, or these knit geese.)

Another one I don’t totally understand is sardines or little fish more generally. Sure, they’re cute, and the shape is fun, but I had no idea when I was sharing this pattern for a fish-shaped pouch last year that it would become a hugely popular pattern that people are still searching for on the site. It is pretty cute, though, so if you weren’t around then or don’t remember you should got check it out. 

Recently another fishy knitting pattern crossed my monitor: the little knit fish from Classical Songbird Designs. 

Just as the name suggests, these fish are little, about 4.5 inches or 11 cm from end to end. They look like little sardines and take about 12 yards of sock yarn to make. 

You can even make a two-tone fish and use just 6 yards of each color. 

This sounds to me like just about the perfect use for the yarn that’s left over after knitting a pair of socks, or a mini skein or several that have been sitting around unused in your stash. 

The fish are knit flat in one piece, which makes it easy to stitch on the eyes with more yarn or embroidery floss before stuffing, and you can stitch up the sides while you stuff (though it’s not a very big piece so you could probably stitch and then stuff, finishing with the end of the tail). 

Because I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one wondering, I measured an Altoids box and as the pattern is written the fish are a little too big to fit in it (the box is about 4 inches/10 cm long). But you could make the fish a little smaller if you want to make a box of them. Or just make a fishy bag to put them in!

You can grab the free pattern for the little knit fish at Classical Songbird Designs. 

[Photo: Classical Songbird Designs.]