We feel a bit knitting-adjacent this week - we're talking about buttons, and answering a Dear Scratch letter about cozy mysteries! Alternatives to buttons: * Shawl pins - https://www.etsy.com/search?q=shawl%20pins * Screw in closures - https://juldesigns.com/screw-in-closures/ * Holeless Buttons - https://www.purlandhank.com/shop-online/hole-less-buttons * Sweater clips - https://www.etsy.com/search?q=sweater+clips Knitting themed cozy mysteries: * Peggy Ehrhart: Knit & Nibble Mystery Series * Sally Goldenbaum - Seaside Knitters Mystery Series * Seaside Knitters Society * Maggie Sefton: A Knitting Mystery series * Allie Pleiter: A Riverbank Knitting Mystery Other themes: * Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency * Karen Menuhin: Heathcliff Lennox Series * Alexia Gordon: Gethsemane Brown Mysteries * M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin series What's on our needles this week: Sunshine On My Shoulders (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sunshine-on-my-shoulders-3) by Lissy Jane Only Ocean (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/only-ocean) by Sylvia McFadden Summer Knitalong - CABLES! Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! We cast on June 1, and there's definitely still time to join us - we hope you will!
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