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Pieces of Her

Books

Author: Karin Slaughter

I’m not sure who suggested this book to me but I’m certainly glad they did. I could not put it down; I went to bed one night after reading a section, turned the light out, and after an hour when I couldn’t stop thinking about it I started to read again.

A gunman enters a mall cafeteria with the intention of killing his ex-girlfriend and her mother. He then expects to be shot by the police. But Laura, also a mother, steps in to save her daughter. The manner in which she deals with the gunman and her actions afterward lead her daughter, Andy, to search for the secrets her mother has been hiding.

Goodreads Rating: * * * * *

Market Tote

Knit & Crochet

I had some bamboo yarn that I wanted to use up and, at first, I thought I could make a decent-sized blanket for Taylor. After using up one (of three) skeins I realized that wasn’t going to work.

So I found this pattern online and thought I’d have enough yarn. As I worked through the bottom and started up the sides it felt like it wasn’t as dense as the photo was showing. So I rechecked the pattern. I assumed the blogger I took the pattern from was from the US and translated all the double crochets into triple crochets. But the blogger was from Canada so I should have worked the pattern as written.

So I started over (does this sound familiar?). When I got to the last round of the side I thought I might be able to do one extra set of the pattern to make the bag a bit longer. I tried but then I wasn’t going to have enough yarn for the handle. So I tried to add just a couple more rows and still I didn’t feel like there was enough left for the handle. Eventually the bag was done and so was the yarn.

For now the bag is in my donation basket but it might move to the gift bin.

Happy Birthday Stacia

Cards

July 17, 2020

I bought this kit at a yard sale and it sat in my cupboard on Texada for a long time. During our recent stay at the studio I realized that I wasn’t going to have time to make my usual fabric card so I went looking or something else. This kit was more or less on the top of the pile.

The cross stitch is done on 18-count fabric (18 stitches to the inch) so it wasn’t a quick project. But I had nothing better to do so I spent a couple of days at it.

When we came home for a day I quickly finished up the card and got it into the mail right on time.

I’ve seen Stacia’s pincushion and she has way way more pins than this one does!

The Fortunate Ones

Books

Author: Catherine Hokin

Felix is a young German living in Berlin in 1941. His father is Jewish but his mother is German; his father has been dismissed from his job and they are having trouble making ends meet. Liesl is a young and naive girl who is engaged to be married to a high-ranking officer in the SS. On a night when she is out for one last adventure before her wedding the two meet.

Liesl is not happy in her marriage to her very controlling husband and she gets no help or understanding from her parents. Felix and his father are arrested; Felix spends the rest of the war in a concentration camp.

At the end of the war Liesl and her husband are whisked away to Argentina to avoid any prosecution. Felix becomes a lawyer and is determined to bring all the criminals to trial. But he never gives up hope of finding Liesl, or Hannah as he knows her.

Goodreads Rating: * * * *