StitchCraft

Have you heard of the Stitch 'N Bitch series? If you haven't, and you've had the itch to pick up a hook or pair of needles, I highly recommend it.
I recently fell in love with crocheting and The Happy Hooker by Debbie Stoller is undoubtedly where it's at.
I made my first scarf and the beginnings of a lofty birds nest of a hat thanks to her.
I somehow missed out on instruction in the art of stitchcraft in my early years and was foaming at the mouth to pick it up after finding much solace in a very seventies afghan my Mimi made me years ago. If only I'd had her deft little fingers there to teach me before they were transformed into twisted and papery appendages by eighty three years of living!
Sigh.
Just the same, this book has her approval.
Come borrow it from me and make yourself something purty, like this: