Mother's Day

I gave Mom a couple of books for Mother’s Day: 7oo Sundays by Billy Crystal and Knitting Rules! by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. I haven’t read Crystal’s book, but it seemed like the right thing for Mom. It’s Crystal talking about his family and growing up. The knitting book is one that I have read. Pearl-McPhee is known as the Yarn Harlot and has a blog (http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/). I also enjoyed her book called Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter, which is essays about knitting. Knitting Rules! has some of her general thoughts about knitting but is more of a how-to book. For my own humble beginnings in the craft, I rely on a book that was given to us by our good friend Linn, Kids Knitting: Projects for Kids of All Ages by Falick, Hartlove, and Nicholas. It is so clearly written and illustrated that with it, a pair of size 8 knitting needles, and any skein of yarn, you too could be knitting in 15 minutes if you aren’t already one of the fifty million knitters in North America.