Nope, it’s not Valentine’s Day any more…it’s the week of love in print, specifically in the pages of Rachael Herron’s newest novel, HOW TO KNIT A HEART BACK HOME, set in the fictional town of Cypress Hollow. Both Jillian and I got to read the book early, and we absolutely loved it. So we decided to make big hoopla when the book was finally available to y’all!
This week, we’re celebrating the convergence of knitting and romance with daily giveaways, and peeks into the love-filled mind of author, knitter, spinner, and general all-around nice person, Rachael Herron*. Today, we start with a little getting-to-know-you stuff.
Knitty: Part of each novel you’ve written is focused on an original knitting pattern that you design. Where in the writing process does the sweater design fit in? Do you create the character around the sweater or is the sweater based on the character, or do they grow together as you write the novel?
Rachael: It’s interesting—the way the patterns have grown along with the books is completely organic. If I’m struggling with the book, I’m struggling with the pattern. The man’s raglan gansey in HOW TO KNIT A LOVE SONG went smoothly, as did most of the book writing. The women’s cardigan in HOW TO KNIT A HEART BACK HOME was tricky for such a simple pattern—I had problems solving obvious issues, and had the same issues in the novel. (Plot? What? Collar? Really?) And when the book finally came together, so did that dang collar issue I’d been having [see the sweater below right]. It’s like the writing and knitting paralleled each other exactly.
It’s fun, though. In the first book, Abigail is a knitwear designer, and the man’s sweater she designs ends up fitting our hero Cade to a T. In the second book, bookstore owner Lucy loves the last sweater her grandmother ever made, loves it so much she’s desperate to recreate the sweater. And when I wear the prototypes of these sweaters, it’s as if they catch some of the spirit of these fictional characters. I find it extremely fun.
K: Can we look forward to a Cypress Hollow pattern book one day? Or a yarn line?
R: I dream sometimes of a collection of Eliza Carpenter patterns. In the new novel, the heroine Lucy finds a rare copy of a precious pattern book (fictional, of course), but it makes me long to have the book for real. Wouldn’t that be lovely? A coffee-table book called Silk Road, with Eliza’s best patterns mixed in with stories of her life…. And then I remember that she’s fictional too, and that I’d have to write it. But maybe someday!
K: Have you planned the whole series out? How many books can we look forward to?
R: I’ve got three more books (for a total of six) planned out at this point. I’m super excited to start working on them! The third is completely done and will be out in October: WISHES AND STITCHES. This one comes with a wedding shawl pattern (designed by Romi, since while I love knitting lace, I’m not up to designing it well yet).
So to start the week off right, how about we give away a copy of this book, eh? I say yes! Jillian says yes! Rachael says yes!
To win, leave a comment to this post by Monday, March 7th at midnight, eastern time. In your comment, tell us what you’d name the novel you’d write that would combine knitting and your favorite genre [romance, horror, mystery, whatever…it’s up to you!]. Just the title, please. Â Rachael will pick her favorite and that lucky person will win a copy of HOW TO KNIT A HEART BACK HOME.
Good luck, y’all, and stay tuned…we’ve got prizes every day this week, and lots more Rachael!
*Rachael Herron received her MFA in writing from Mills College, and has been knitting since she was five years old. It’s more than a hobby; it’s a way of life. Rachael lives with her better half in Oakland, California, where they have four cats, three dogs, three spinning wheels, and more instruments than they can count. She is a proud member of the San Francisco Area Romance Writers of America and she is struggling to get better at playing the ukulele.
I look forward to reading this book.
Pride and prejudice and knitting
Knitting New York!
Crocheting Tiger, Knitted Dragon
Learn Knitting in 24 Hours.
Giving Birth to Love
Leave Him In Stitches. (Horror about cheating ex and his vindictive, knitting girlfriend.)
Tied in a Knitting Knot
The Mystery of the Lost Needle
Splicing Nana’s Yarns (fiction)
6 books total? squee! picked up #2 this weekend and love it!!!
Reading about knitting is almost as good. Especially when your glasses are right on your nose anyway.
Fabio Loves Fair Isle
Subtitle:
I Can’t Believe He’s in my Sweater!
By Amy Sedaris 😛
Gordian Knot
(historical fiction, of course)
Knits and Giggles!
Nancy Drew and the mystery of the Pirate’s Stash!
Wine and Needles Don’t Mix – I love mysteries.
red yarns in the city
Unravelled… !!
The Secret of the DPs
Tying up Loose Ends
I’m thinking a self help book for collectors called Knit Knacks!
The Fellowship of the Stitch
Blood and Purls
Purl Bickersticks in the Land of the Slipped Stitches
Treasury of the prism
Stitchin’ Witch
The Secret life of a KnitaHolic.
Death of a Yarn Whore-
Blood Red Yarn (horror)!
I love that cardigan and would love to knit it!
Slip Stitch
murder mystery
How to Teach Your Zombie to Knit
Bitter Purls
A knitting guerrilla girl at the zoo
A Scarf Grows in Brooklyn
Have not read the books, but now that I know about them am really looking forward to them. I have always thought reading and knitting go hand in hand.
Wow! I am looking forward to seeing this book cross my desk! Bring it!
Knot another knitting book.
The Needles – ala The Stand
Knitting In Hiking Boots
Calloused Hands, Calm Heart, Happy Faces
Confessions of a Yarnaholic!
A Corpse in Time saves Nine (Something with a Dexter-like heroine..).
Strand by strand (instead of ‘Bone by bone’)
Knit the World Together: A Journal for Hard Times
The Knitting Queen and I
Binding-Off:
The end of the ball
(tragically sweet romance)
Love in a Magic Loop – romance, of course!
Looks like a fun book! It is hard to come up with a name for a book I would write. How about: “The Case of the Calico Kitten and the Missing Ball of Yarn”
For the love of yarn
My grandson asked me last night if he could help me ‘Needle’ so:
Death of a Needling Nuisance.
A Tale of Two Needles
Purls, not Diamonds.
Knit, baby, knit
can’t wait to read it!!
Point Counterpoint
I love Douglas Adams, so maybe “The Knitter’s Guide to the Galaxy”
Knitting Myself Back Together
Would love to have this book. We could all use more romance and cute cardi patterns in our lives!
Purl of Truth
Steeked! A murder mystery solved by a forensic pathologist who turns to fiber arts to unwind.
Knit One, Death Two
Knitting at the Opera: Fiber Arts from the Page to the Stage
Doctor Who Science Fiction “Knitting the Strands of Time”
How to Knit Love Everyday, Romance (how a woman falls back in love with her everyday life 😉 )
Purl Bumps
In Stitches – humor
How God knit you together: a mystery and a miracle
The Knitterati Unraveled! Love, Envy and Ambition at the top of the fiber heap.
Frogged – A Fairy Tale
Love the books.
Knitting A Blanket of Safety.
In the Sticks – a coming of age novel about rural/suburban America and knitting. =]
Shopping for yarn
(and I’d read every one of the titles suggested!)
I would write the epic spanning generations in “Weave: The strands of Time” about a family that finds their connection through uncovering the mystery within their family history.
Science Fiction:
Hyperbolic Threads
I keep thinking that there is a better word than hyperbolic but it is eluding me! Silly words!
This is so cool. What a neat idea.
I Can Sing & Knit at the Same Time – a laugh out loud memoir of a fibercrazed musician.
Needle & Threat – a murder mystery
Knit in the Morning
The Dragon’s Knitting Cave
Knots and Frogs — a story of errors and tearing out … hopefully to result in something fabulous
The Yarn of Terror Mountain(series)
Book One:
The Skein That Shall Not Be Named Must Be Wound
I would write a fantasy/romance called Knitting Worlds or a self-help book called Knitting a New Reality.
Mme Defarge’s Code – an historical mystery, of course!
Frogged!
A tale of one woman’s search for acceptance of imperfection
Knitting Kiddies
Knitting for the new love of my life.
Mystery
“Needled to Death”
Through the Back Loop- another Self Help book.
When Stash Meets Pointy Needles: A Mystery
A Twisted Yarn, a biography…of whom, I’m not sure!
Needle Me Knot–Little old ladies using unique methods to kill.
Knitting’s Eleven
Wool Ewe Be Mine? A Romance set on a sheep farm
Mystery
Kill two together
Ewe’s Not Fat, Ewe’s Fluffy: How to walk on the treadmill while knitting merino.
When I first met my future husband, I was knitting a baby sweater because I loved the yarn, and loved the pattern. Our daughter wore it last week, and the memories flooded in until I thought I’d cry.
Knit Together in Love
This is the title of my website, but I love it, so I’d title a book Yarn Today, Knit Tomorrow.
Needles in the back
“Spinning the Stardust” because it would have to be sci-fi. 😉 (What!? Like you never wondered why no one in the future knits!)
The book sounds awesome!
“Knitting’s in my blood”
Under the.genre of vampire romance
Reading? Knitting? Sounds lovely!
Stitching the fabric of the past and present
Caitlynn Casts Off
“How to darn a broken heart”
I think a novel about the crusades, with a pattern for knitted chain mail would be entertaining! The pattern could translate to the real world by actually being a pattern for a loose sweater or vest.
Labor Knits: Quick, Easy (and easy to put down) Patterns for Doulas and Mdwives
Stitching in Time
Knitting Two Together
I love reading (even fiction) about other knitters and their lives.
Knit One, Bite Two: A Vampire Knitterati Tale
.. and they frogged happily ever after!
I would call my book ‘A Linear Yarn’ and it would be math/fiction/knitting 🙂
My book would be called “Knit Two Together”.
I don’t know if I’d go for horror: “Purls in the Blood” or romance: “k2tog, m1”
“The Whole Knit and Caboodle”
“How to knit together a broken heart”
Pick Up Stitch
“Nibbles and Needles” would be my romance novel. It would involve a sweet young heroine that runs a knitting cafe and the sexy photographer who she hired to do her marketing… yeah, that’s the ticket! The follow up novel would be “Lens Cap Off” but that’s for a different post.
Knit to stop time.
The Deceptive Swatch
It is funny how the plot and design elements are so intertwined. I bet that is true for lots of people.
I like historical fiction a lot and there was a lot of knitting during WWII. I like the Keep Calm and Knit On slogan but I’d like to think of something original.
‘Knitting Kitty Love’.
Stick Up
a mystery
Hmmm, my favourite genre is fantasy, and I think I’d call the story “Spindolyn.”
Hmm. How about –
Knitting a lifeline – a sci-fi time-travel mystery?
Happy knitting the story
“Knitting a new world”
Not a novel, but I would write “TheAnthropology of Knitting” – I would love to do my masters thesis on knitting!
‘Spin me a Yarn’
Adventure – A story teller reliving their life while spinning and knitting.
“Unraveled” (mystery)
I love YA fantasy with strong female characters — my husband summarizes this as “books with a woman/girl on the cover holding a weapon”. So here is mine:
Slipped Stitches: Journey Through the Midnight Skein
(obligatory sequel would of course be Twisted Stitches)
Can I enter myself? Because I have the BEST TITLE that my editor wouldn’t let me use for the 3rd book (which is about doctors):
DO KNIT RESUSCITATE
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH! But no.
I’ve been working on a story for a couple of years now, about minimum-wage vampires. It would be called “Working Stiffs,” if I ever got it into print.
One of the characters, who runs a “daytime services,” knits, because you have to have a hobby to fill in the time in between errands and going to the DMV for someone who’s been dead for 2 centuries.
If I wrote a book, it’d be a kids book called, “If You Knit a Dragon a Sweater”. Imagine the yardage you’d need! And the ease you’d need around the spines….
I love Rachael Herron and can’t wait to read the new book!
Would love to have a copy of this book!
Sutured stitches (for your doctor novel)
I love reading, and knitting…but when the two mix it’s a dream come true!
If I wrote a book, it’d have to be a whodunit mystery type (my favorite genre). As for a name? The Case of the Dropped Stitch.
Knit novel title: A Pair Makes Three. Love means going the extra mile and knitting an extra sock or mitten for each pair — which is what our heroine’s grandmother did for her as a child, and what she now does for her own children.
I don’t know if there’s a Mommy Blogger category (there should be!) but I see a book called “Why I knit at Drs Appointments, Soccer Sidelines and other Places.” It would be more of an expose….
“Spinderella” a young adult (or not) novel about a young woman into hip-hop (Salt ‘n’ Pepa’s DJ was named Spinderella). Could have romance, self empowerment, vampires etc. How about she’s a Slayer like Buffy and uses wooden needles as her stakes; modifies circulars into nunchuks…
by the way, I have a signed copy of her first book, from Stitches East. Would love a signed second book!
How to knit a family together in peace (piece).
Thanks for such a fun review! I second the request for a line of patterns from Cypress Hollow. When I think Cypress Hollow, I do thinK Ysolda Teague. Would that be an awesome duo or what?!
The Lace of Dreams (instead of the Lake of dreams)
knit one stake two…. ala buffy the vampire slayer style.
Knit Lightning – this would be something like a scenario as Grease 3. I would love to see John Travolta dancing again 😉 But first I would have to write that book of course!
My book would be about a knitting mystery called “Death by Cashmere”.
My thought is if I don’t enter I can’t win. I never win but enter I will there is always hope…..
I’d be tempted to write a murder mystery or crime novel called “Unraveled” 🙂
This looks like a great book.
I think I would have to write some sort of fantasy. It would be really interesting to explore the idea of knitting as a basis for magic!
How about a childrens’ book? The Adventures of Knit and Purl and the Lost Stockinettes.
I love some good knit lit!
Fair Isle or Foul – would be a mystery set on an island off the coast of Scotland
I stayed up until 1am this morning finishing the book!!!! So great and so excited there’s a total of six coming out. Hmmmm for a title. Make1 a parenting guide from Toots! Hahahaha that would be hilarious. Or maybe it’s a guide on how to get pregnant.
Ooh, I need good read! I loved the first book.
“Yaaarrrrnn!” I tale of knitting on the high seas 🙂
“Love Unraveled” would be my novel, and it would be a romantic mystery!
I recently reread Ernest Gaines’ classic novel, so in its honor I’d choose “A Lesson Before Dyeing”.
Jamie
Horror..
One Last Skein!
Here are three, I couldn’t choose only one! I kept thinking of a Nancy Drew approach to book titles for the first two.
1. The Mystery of the Moebius Scarf
2. The Case of the Missing Double-Pointed Needle
3. Zombie Survival Guide: 25 Knitted Hats, Tams, Beanies, and Berets to Protect Your Brains
Knitted Together, a romance filled with knitting!
Hmmmmm….. well I have in mind a gothic horror/romance set in Whitby, Yorkshire. The front cover would show the mysterious heroine wearing a hooded cloak in swirling mist on a cliff top. Knit in Rowan Kidsilk Haze of course.. 🙂
“The danger of knitting”
A mystery!
If I win, can I have it electronically? I’d love to have it on my Kindle!
I’d love to read it.
Knitting My Life: A Spiritual Defense of Knitting
I’d write a Sci-Fi dramedy with a kick-ass, leather-wearing, heroine who knits on the sly. Not just knits. She knits *lacy* things.
I don’t know what the title would be, but the Prologue would be titled “I Run With Needles”.
” Casting Away” would be the title of my book about knitting.
It would be about three women, and how new beginnings knit their lives together 😉 (and they all love to knit, ofc ! )
“Wrapped in Cables” a family story set in the 1930’s – four sisters slowly twisting their lives back together.
how about-Child of Darkness*20+ Knits to Tempt Your Vampire or Tame Your Werewolf*?
“Robots & Raglans”
Let’s knit together
The Girl With The Intarsia Tattoo
The Girl Who Played With Fair Isle
The Girl Who Knit a Hornets Nest
Cables, cardigans and crisps (instead of Eat, Pray, Love)
can’t do just one!
It Just Felt Wrong…and It Was… (mystery)
Cain and Cable ( bio)
Something Steeks (children’s)
Another Spin on my life (2nd and positive version of bio – hehe)
SSS or SSK (historical account of the effect of war on women)…oh good one!
ok,… I will stop, but trust me, there are tons!!!!
Knit 2 Together…a story of friends!
I think I would name my book. Knitting: How to avoid getting all Strung up by Life. It would have a Erma Bombeck kind of snarkiness(is that a word).
Diamonds and Purls: Cast off for wealth and adventure
Want one!!!
A romance called Pebble to a Purl. Sounds like a great book!
“Socks in Space” — a science fiction book that includes sock knitting!
I’m awful at names; for books, animals, pretty much anything. However, my stab at it would be: Mildred and Greta K2Tog.
There are several excellent suggestions above, especially the ones associated with women re-orienting. So to take a cue from Ravelry phrases, I suggest: “Work in Progress” – a narrative about working a project, progressing, making errors, ripping, putting it aside before reworking and learning along the way. Pretty much a description of how a woman’s life unfolds through the years.
How about a self help type book “Knit the knits and purl the purls”
Purled! You Swine! The Misadventures of a Knitter on a Hog Farm
(Comic Mystery)
Because I LOVE a good mystery 🙂
Dropped Stitches, a tale of terror.
Sci fi/fantasy
Tinking Through Time (a time-travel story in which a knitter gets to tink back through her life and rectify mistakes)
Battlestar Knittica
My book would be a chick lit sort of book with the title “Knitting Interrupted” – for all the reasons that women would like to knit but have to put their knitting aside to take care of all the other things in a woman’s life.
Knitting the Wind, life as a knitter on the back of a motorcycle
The Fiber Quest (knitting and fantasy?)
I’d love to read (win) this book! My book would be called How to Knit a Banjo Case.
“knitting in a time of zombies. a love story”. title says it all.
I love JD Robb books, so I’d go with a mystery – Knit in Death. ; )
Linda
I was going to say Knit One, Kill Two but then I realized that was the name of a book already. How about The Knitting Hijacker for to validate all those TSA employees who confiscate knitting needles!
Romance – or women supporting each other (not sure what genre that would be:
A Stole for the Soul
I’m going the Nancy Drew Mysteries route with “The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater”.
I just want to say how much I love Rachael’s first book, which showed me there really is good knitting fiction out there! After reading the few pages that are up on Amazon, I’m tempted to order the new book immediately so it can keep me company while recovering from a minor surgery later this week.
Oh, and I love the sweater that’s in the new book, definitely something I’d wear too!
Wow, I’d love to read some of these books! Especially “knitting, interrupted” and “knitting the wind”!
I’ve been reading a lot of craft books recently, and have a newborn, so the book I could see myself writing would be “knit so little – patterns for infants and toddlers.” And essays about making time for creative work with a young child. Mostly because that’s the book I’d like to read right now!
I LOVE Rachael’s work! How to Knit a Love Song was the best (knitty) romance novel I’ve ever read!
“Continue in Pattern: How Knitting Kept Me From Losing My Mind and Myself,” a memoir of my journey in raising three special needs children.
a horror story – The Stolen Stash
“Two hearts knit as one” – love story
How about “Galileo’s Weave”. It would be the journeys of a knitting starship captain exploring unknown space dimensions.
For Sherlock Holmes fans: “The Mound of the Basket Wools”.
I would love to write a triller and it would be called “Walk carefully with pointy sticks”
sounds like a great book. would love to own it
“Winding the Red String” – love story set in far East.
“Tangled: My obsession with yarn and men.”
Mine would be a travelogue called “Knitting in Beautiful Places” with photos!
I would title the book Stitched Together: How Two Hearts Became One”.
Can’t wait to read it !
Tenth Grade (or How I Started a Knitting Club and Saved My Life) – a YA book
I’m always interested in something new to read. As for my knitting/fiction book, it would be called “Floating”…basically a sci-fi with fair isle!
I can’t wait to read the new book.
My idea for a knitting novel: Fangs or Knitting Needles – a supernatural murder mystery.
Zombies in Cardigans
I love the look of the Lucy sweater. Feminine without being fussy.
How about Warm Sweater, Warm Heart – a love story of course.
Knit to the Bone
I’d write, because I have an odd sense of humor
“By the Twitching of my Klepto Thumbs, Somehting Cashmere This Way Comes” an oddball detective story.
or
“War in Pieces!” horror story of alien moths invading Earth.
Discovering the mystery of the missing sweater! I love mysteries! and knitting!
Call of Knithulu (crafty cosmic horror)
Wow, I just went to Rachel’s blog and I love it!! I cannot wait to read her books. Thanks for the new literary discovery Knitty.
I already read and reviewed this book. Read it on my Kindle and just loved it. Would cherish a hard copy for my library. What a wonderful read!
Scifi + knitting: A Stitch in Time
“Knitting the pieces together” a post divorce story
“Snarrrl”
The life of a cat-owning knitter
Pirate adventure story: “Yarrrrrrr(n)”
(wherein one of the pirates knits up an eyepatch, with icord ties, and another comes up with a design for a wooden-leg warmer)
I’ll go with “Love under Wraps”.
Since Miriam already had my idea, I’ll have to go with The Terrible Yarner – Storytelling Gone Bad.
“With Silent Stitches” – A historical fiction
“Knitting to Pieces: How to Put My Life Back Together” a self-help book.
Knitting with a dash of spice (cook book)
A Tangled Yarn
It would be a knitting love story, called K2TOG 🙂
A romance between an astrophysicist and an artist: “How to knit a starry night”.
I loved the first book and can’t wait to read the second one!
Oops…forgot my title.
Let Me Spin a Yarn
My mystry would be “Nigth of the Dropped Stitch”.
A Sweater For Mr. Darcy….obviously romance. Who can resist Mr. Darcy? Rachael is wonderful!! 🙂
I’d combine knitting with a mystery story – maybe it could be called In the Library with a Knitting Needle.
I love knitting, and love romance novels, so this would be great! : )
A Circular Murder (I’m a very sad murder mystery addict!)
I love the concept!
A Stitch in Time Saves the Planet
(YA sci-fi knitting thriller)
I would have a trilogy – “The Fellowship of the Yarn,” “The Two Towers of Stash,” and “The Return of the Knitting.” Fantasy, if you couldn’t tell. 😉
horror- IN STITCHES
“Close Knit”
A coming of age story about families, secrets, heritage, and reinvention of tradition.
“Knitting On”
A woman’s recovery /romance novel
Knitty Bits – a tell all of the famous and infamous who knit.
Free Love Romance~Make sweaters not War
Or we could go Horror, and call it, I knit so I don’t kill people
On Frog Pond
It could be romance or a Thoreau-like social commentary/personal philosophy
Knotty Knitter
I would love to read the book!
sticky needles, sticky buns
a tale of knitting, baking and mayhem
“The Day The Yarn Fell Silent” – Mystery
Purls of Love
Thanks! Debbie
The Sweater Curse
Knitting needles don’t kill(people do)-mistery
Bitches get Stitches
Womens prison drama and the tale of an unlikely friendship.
Sharing Needles
a tale of best friends getting over life’s trials…while knitting of course!
Blanket of Wishes.
“Coming Unraveled” would be a mystery. I’m thinking a lawyer chick who knits!
Ooh, a horror novel, “Broken Needles”.
Can never have too many knitting books or books with knitting or books about knitting! I love books!
“ooking with a dirty cast iron skillet.” mary in Cincinnati
“Chain of Events” a crochet lesson leads the main character to uncover a deadly secret among a gathering of local fiber enthusiasts!
OOPS! “Cooking with a dirty cast iron skillet” Mary in Cincinnati
How to knit a cloudless sky.
Tales of the Dropped Stitch and other Horror stories
The Knitting Hour
“From Here to Rhinebeck.”
Kissing the Frog
second chance romance novel about picking up the pieces mid-life.
The Time of Your Life – How knitting helps people get through difficult situations, or makes the happy ones more joyful.
How perfect! Romance and knitting in March!
How cool is this idea for a book? Wonder if I wrote a book about diamond mining….. hmmmm….. food for thought lol.
She Forgot to Swatch: a tragicomedy.
Sounds interesting! I’d like to read Rachael’s books. Now for my idea: Knitting and Science Fiction and Mystery? I’m imagining the problems you’d have controling your yarn in a zero gravity space station! ‘String Theory’ A knitting scientist solving the mystery.
Stop and Squeeze the Yarn: Self Healing Through Soft and Fuzzy Crafts
I couldn’t decide, so I have two:
1. “A Yarn Unspun” As an archaeologist delves deeper into the history of knitting, her research takes her from mummy’s socks to dead vikings gloves. She was expecting the tombs, but she wasn’t prepared for the curse of the unraveled sock!
2. “Knits in Space!” Think pigs in space, but in sweaters :).
Stranded Family.
Frogged, a love story.
Why Zombies Knit.
A handfull of squishiness.
“Repeat from *”
The genre would be science fiction, where frogging = turning back time.
Twisted
a mystery
Would love to win the book. I like the idea of a knitter who is in command of the internet, does lots of research that way, and knits while the pages are loading….
“String Theory” –an intellectual tale of a knitting physicist who is forced to reevaluate her priorities when she meets a ruggedly handsome sheep farmer.
Just One More Row: A Mother’s Guide to Knitting with Children (and actually getting something finished)
“Spell-Spun”
Knitting and fantasy.
The Bite Mark Double Points
Knitted under cover
a spy espionage thriller where messages were included secretly in knitting (a la E. Zimmerman, etc.)
Needled, tale of a persecuted soul
“Sticks and Stones” – a knitting mystery
The Knitter and the Frog, an en-gauge-ing tail of rip-roaring proportions
Where are the missing needles? – mystery of course
Spin and Knit Spider Sized Sweaters
The Cable Car – a spellbinding tale of suspense set in Italy with many twists and turns in the plot
“Purls of Wisdom”
In Weaving a Tall Tail
The Killer Wore Cashmere.
Knitting My Heart Out
“The Qiviut Caper”
Nancy Drew and the Case of the Second Sock Zombie
My favorite type of book to read is Science Fiction … maybe I’d write something called Stitching The Future?
🙂 Linda
I would love to read this book!
Didn’t even blink or have to think to answer this one!
I’m going to call my book “Purling over the past”
And my favorite genre is science fiction meets romance… Seriously if you haven’t read any of Diana Gabaldons work, check it out.
And did you say ukulele!?.. Awesome! I want to learn that AND the bango!!!
Men and Malabrigo, a love story.
Sadly, I’m not feeling very creative tonight. The best that I can come up with is “Pearl Wise–A Yarn of Love and Knitting.”
“Cabling Towards Disaster”, which I think is a quirky, humorous mystery.
Or my memoir.
Who Slipped through the Window?
Knit One, Tap Two
It will be a novella based on a Mexican folk tale. Previously content with garter stitch, a young mother discovers a new way to wrap the yarn. The villager’s greed to acquire this beautiful fabric eventually leads to the destruction of the poor family. I’ll call it “The Purl”.
Winter “Soul Stitch” : Finding comfort through the dark days of winter
The Jogless Jog: A Guide to Seamless Workouts
(ha! I crack myself up!)
I’ve been in stitches, pardon the pun, reading everyone’s entries. (You too Rachael) This would be fun to do every night!
“Knit Picky About Love” a woman who has been castoff one too many times!
Web of Deceit.
Cast-on, purl and bait – a different kind of love story.
Knitting through Insanity…
The Nostepinne Killer
Slippin’ in to comment just before beddiebye. I’m looking for a new good night story!
oooh…love to win the book…read her last one and really enjoyed it!
What a wonderful series! I wait for them eagerly–and perhaps knit Cade’s sweater for my DH. “The Needle in the Couch” an almost perfect murder.
A mystery novel called “Cat’s Paw” – also a favorite lace stitch
Ego, Enmity and the Missing Ewe
How to Knit Socks for Two Left Feet & Other Impractical Life Lessons.
I’d love to win, as tomorrow is my birthday!!! 🙂
EZ and Vampires — a combination of the Jane Austen and Vampires book and The Knitters Almanac, with Elizabeth Zimmerman as the main character, dishing out pithy advice about knitting and life while dispatching creatures of the night with her oaken knitting needles.
Bummer, I missed the deadline. ohh well, I Would do…the Black Jewels Trilogy, especially Widows Weeds. and I would use lace weight from Malibrigo for it….
Engauged!
Yarn Over the Moon