What’s in your knitting queue for the fall? Here are some of the things that I have on my “knit soon” list:
Colourful Geometry (I’m thinking Uncommon Thread Posh Fingering)
In the Stacks (Malabrigo Arroyo)
Squish (Malabrigo Rios)
Sea Swell Shawl (Wollmeise Pure and/or Twin)
Although I still have to finish my Goldfish Memory (DC Smooshy Cashmere) that matches my favorite tea cup.
And since I cannot wait for the weather to get colder so I can wear my Weekender (Uncommon Lush Worsted) again, it seems like I should make another one of those. You can only wear it so many times in one week ….
We have a contest winner from last week! Thanks so much for sharing your favorite notions with us. We are sending this fun package to Jennifer in Delaware who said her favorite notions are tape measures, so we included two of them in her prize package. (Jennifer, please email us to confirm your address, and we’ll get this right out to you.)
Another Anniversary Contest for you! Share a comment below and tell us what your favorite childhood book was? (Anything you loved up until, let’s say, age 14. So it can be picture books, young kid books, or early teenage books.) We’ll use the random generator to pick a winner next Friday, and we’ll be sending the winner three beautiful knitting books (not kid books!).
I majored in Education and minored in Reading, and taught middle school Remedial Reading in my former life. My favorite class was Kiddie Lit, where we had to read children’s books from different genres. I remembered a favorite book I had growing up, but could not remember the name of it. It was about a doll and a teddy bear that had adventures together. I was so happy when I came across it: The Lonely Doll. So I’ll say that was my favorite book. (Although there were so many others, too.) So what was yours?
Hope you all have a great weekend!
Sheri whowillbeblockingAugustCampLoopyProjectthisweekend
My favorite books as a kid were the Encyclopedia Brown mysteries!
Oh, I loved those!
I have so many fall plans! At least two sweaters (Bloomsbury and Cora) and two big lace shawls (Miracoli and Don’t Panic — both by Nim Teasdale) –and of course I’m trying to reserve some extra needle time for whatever is coming from TLE!
Favorite children’s book? There were so many and then I worked as a children’s librarian so there’s many from then as well but I’ll choose Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. A little bit of magic, a whole lot of fun!
So hard to pick a favorite, as I loved to read and still do.
‘Charlotte’s Web ‘and ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ popped into my head first, so I’ll say those two.
I always enjoy your posts. You add such fun topics.
I loved all the Little House on the Prairie books.
I had the m in hardback and have now shared them with my nieces.
My favorite childhood books both belonged to Mother: Art Treasures of the Louvre, and The Joy of Cooking. I could get lost in either of those books for hours! Since I had been taught to handle books with the greatest respect, I was welcome to read whenever I wished.
My favorite book was The Pokey Little Puppy. I can still hear my mom’s voice as she read it to me, and it’s how I learned to read.
I still have a soft spot in my heart for “The Cat in a Hat”! That was the first book I took out of the library with my own library card.
A friend of my Mother’s loan her a copy of Little House in the big woods because she thought we would enjoy a story about two little girls with the same names as ours (my “real” name is Mary) in the same birth order. I still remember how excited I was when I found the rest of the series in the school library. The final book was published after Laura’s daughter died and it was the first book I ever put on hold at the library. My Dad took me to the library after he got home from work so I could put my name on the list. Such memories.
I loved The Five Chinese Brothers. So politically incorrect now, but I was too young to know that. I was fascinated by each of the brother’s talent.
The Velveteen Rabbit.
My favorite childhood book is probably Anne of Green Gables. I’ve re-read it quite a few times, so it might be one of my adult favorites also!
TEDDY BEAR OF BUMPKIN HOLLOW was my favorite book as a small child. That book is long gone, but I did find a copy on ebay a few years ago. I guess we just have to hang on to some memories. I just don’t think they write books like that one today.
My favorite author as a child was Zilpha Keatley Snyder and while I loved all of her books, my absolute favorite was The Changeling. I still have a copy and reread it every summer.
Misty of Chincoteague, about the beautiful wild mare Phantom and her foal. This book remains a favorite, and in my 20s I was blessed to meet and become friends with its lovely author, the iconic Marguerite Henry
Oh! I have so many, how can I pick? Paddington Bear and Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys and The Dark is Rising series and The Lord of the Rings (which I read and re-read every year from about the age of 11 until after college…)
But if we’re talking early childhood/picture books, it has to be Madeline!
In an old house in Paris
That was covered in vines
Lived twelve little girls
In two straight lines.
My favorite books were the Nancy Drew Series. I would check out my biweekly limit and convince my sister to check out some in her allotment for me too. I never ever owned my own copies until a few years ago when I bought a kindle copy of one to read for fun all these years later.
Ooooh, tough choice! it’s a tie between The Boxcar Children Series or Trixie Beldon. Both series were read many, many times!
“The Mitten” and “The Hat” by Jane Brett
Just had to add another…. The “Little Critter” books were another big favorite- of mine and my boys.
Nancy Drew books
I liked the Three Investigators series (Alfred Hitchcock).
I read a lot of books and really liked the Trixie Belden series
As an unpopular kid growing up, I did a lot of reading. I was the only kid I new who had over 250 books by the time I was 10. That made this question a little tough. I thought of the Tarzan series Uncle Jack had started me on, the Lassie books, the Oz series? Suddenly I remembered Follow My Leader (although I had to look up the title), and now I’m typing through my tears. If you know the book, you know why, I’m off to order a copy so I can read it again and again, as I did when I was a kid.
Follow my Leader – was that about the guide dog? I read and loved it too!
Nancy Drew book series. I owned almost everyone of them.
When I was little, I loved “A Little Princess” by Frances Hodgson Burnett and read it several times. I also liked “The Secret Garden.”
I read “Gone with the Wind” for the first time when I was 13. I was so engrossed in the opening chapters one morning that I almost missed my schoolbus! I had to run down my street to the corner where the bus driver stopped to wait when she just happened to see me.
Oh my… I devoured books like potato chips as a kid, especially if they had a horse on the cover! Picking a favorite is a challenge! To name just one, I’ll go with King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry.
I was born a bookworm, so picking a favorite is hard. I’ll go with Where the Sidewalk Ends. I still have the same copy that I was given as a gift when I was a child.
I have two favorite books from when I was a child: The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary and A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. I read them at least ten times each and shared both with my children.
My favorite story growing up was “Rapunzel”. My Dad would read it to me, using different voices and when he read, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!” it was in such a deep commanding voice. I can still hear him reading it to me.
I also have many favorite books from when I was a kid. One of them was Nothing Much Happened Today be Mary Blount Christian. I loved how crazy it was. I also liked The Rabbi and the Twenty-nine Witches by Marilyn Hirsh. I thought the Rabbi was so smart because of how he was able to trick the witches.
My favorite books growing up were the Nancy Drew series and The Happy Hollisters books. I haven’t thought of these in years. Thanks for triggering these memories.
My mom introduced me to the Nancy Drew books pretty early and I loved reading my way through that series!
Pokey Little Puppy was my earliest favorite. A later favorite was Behind The Attic Wall. Of course, a Secret Garden… honestly, so many books from childhood that stick with me for one reason or another. And many YA books that I have read as an adult.
Nancy Drew, all the way.
Harriet the Spy!! — by Louise Fitzhugh
My favorite was A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. My dad read to me every night and this was a fave. When I grew older I read it to myself. The shifting of one’s life circumstances fascinated me.
I’m hoping to knit a sweater or two and would love to make a Kyler shawl, this fall.
Fall knitting depends on the Fall Loopy Challenges! Do your project possibilities fit? Any hints there?
My favorite kid book was Caddie Woodlawn. I still love historical fiction!
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh was a book that spoke to me as a curious child. But, I read so much as a kid I was almost always the top reader in the summer reading program at my library which was pretty big. My favorite spot for summer reading was in our hammock under a weeping willow, like an outdoor room.
They Loved to Laugh by Kathryn Worth.
So many great book series mentioned I had forgotten about. The Happy Hollisters and Trixie Belden bring back such good memories. Still, my number one favorite will always be The Phantom Tollbooth. Such a clever book!
“Understood Betsy” by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
As a little girl growing up in a difficult home, I was constantly escaping into books. I loved The Secret Garden!
My favorite books were Mrs Piggly Wiggle and the Nancy Drew mysteries.
I was a bookworm so it’s hard to pin down just one. I had all of the Anne of Green Gables books. My aunt would give them to me for birthday, Christmas, Easter until I had the whole set. Also Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames were favorite series.
Easy: The Phantom Tollbooth. I loved the wordplay, and how when Milo was trying to enter Dictionopolis he needed a “reason, or at least an excuse”. He was given one, a pendant that said, “Why not?” That’s kind of been my battle cry my entire life: Why not?
All the Pooh stories. My dad read them to me at night and did different voices for each character. I still have the book. I am now reading them, with appropriate voices of course, to my granddaughter.
My favorite book as a child was Make Way for Ducklings. I still have my copy of it and my kids love it too. When they were young we went to Boston and saw the Duckling statues in the commons.
My favorite children’s book is James & The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. It was the book that made me fall in love with reading…I remember that moment clear as day!
I really enjoyed the Boxcar children. I also started reading Anne McCaffery’s dragon series as a teen…
For fall knitting I have a Newleaf sweater planned, and I have yarn picked out for a pile of Shlankets…. maybe Find Your Fade or Vertices United.
I was a really odd child. My mother and I sat and read literature together, starting when I was very young. The book that really made an impression was her complete works of Shakespeare from college; we sat and read through many of the plays together, and it was magic. I thought that the mark of adulthood was when you had your own copy of the complete works (and I’m still not sure I was wrong). It surprised no one when I became an English professor. 🙂