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Knitting up deliciously, the Silkwood, hand dyed wool from Cnyttan and about to turn a heel.To think the supposed horrors of this manouevre frightened me off sock knitting for so long.
Details for Mary in Spokane, 60 stitches on 2.75 double pointed needles and 3mm 30cm long circular needle.
Cockayne, Emily: Rummage: A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused to Let Go
Sprackland, Jean: These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards
Moore, Wendy: Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military Hospital
Francesca Wade: Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
Harding, Thomas: Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World
Freeman, Hadley: House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
Anne Glenconner: Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Wrightson, Keith: Ralph Tailor's Summer: A Scrivener, His City and the Plague
Balfour, Sandy: Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose: A Memoir of Love, Exile and Crosswords
Evelyn Waugh: Officers and Gentlemen (Sword of Honour Trilogy)
C.S.Lewis : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Hill, Susan: The Comforts of Home ( Simon Serrailler Book 9)
Inez Holden: Blitz Writing: Night Shift & It Was Different At The Time
Anthony Powell: A Buyer's Market (Dance to the Music of Time Book 2)
Anthony Powell: A Question of Upbringing (Dance to the Music of Time Book 1)
Gillian Tindall: The Pulse Glass: And the beat of other hearts
Philip Pullman: The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two.
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings, Book 1 (Audio Book)
Ben Macintyre: A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal
Anne de Courcy: The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters
Damian Le Bas: The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain
Laura Cumming: On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons
Loretta Bellman: Nursing Through the Years: Care and Compassion at the Royal London Hospital
Esther de Waal: Living on the Border: Reflections on the Experience of Threshold
Andy Miller: The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
Alex Woodcock: King of Dust: Adventures in forgotten sculpture
Charlie Connelly: Last Train to Hilversum: A journey in search of the magic of radio
Horatio Clare: Something of his Art: Walking to Lubeck with J. S. Bach
Keren Protheroe: Petal Power: Floral Fashion and Women Designers at the Silver Studio
Lynne Roper: Wild Woman Swimming: A Journal of West Country Waters
Rachel May: An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery
Horatio Clare: A Single Swallow: Following An Epic Journey From South Africa To South Wales
Charlotte Peacock: Into The Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd
Susan Hill: The Soul of Discretion (Simon Serrailler Book 8)
Georges Simenon: Madame Maigret's Friend: Inspector Maigret #34
Georges Simenon: Maigret Enjoys Himself: Inspector Maigret #50
Olivia Manning: The Balkan Trilogy: "Great Fortune", "Spoilt City" and "Friends and Heroes"
Olivia Manning: Friends and Heroes (Vol 3 - The Balkan Trilogy)
Philip Pullman: La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
Anita Leslie: Train to Nowhere: One Woman's War, Ambulance Driver, Reporter, Liberator
Susan Hill: Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading
Julie Rose: Olivia Spencer Bower: Making Her Own Discoveries
Nan Shepherd: The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Olivia Manning: The Spoilt City (The Balkan Trilogy - Book Two)
Olivia Manning: The Great Fortune (The Balkan Trilogy - Book One)
Stephen Moss: Wild Kingdom: Bringing Back Britain's Wildlife
Christopher Somerville: The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain
Lucy Jones: Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain
John Grindrod: Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
Carol Donaldson: On the Marshes: A Journey into England's Waterlands
Matthew Kelly: Quartz and Feldspar: Dartmoor - A British Landscape in Modern Times
Robin Hobb: Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1)
Fiona Farrell: The Villa At the Edge of the Empire : One Hundred Ways to Read a City
Emma Smith: As Green as Grass: Growing Up Before, During & After the Second World War
Isabel Bannerman: Landscape of Dreams: The Gardens of Isabel and Julian Bannerman
Tirzah Garwood: Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood
Jane Bradbury: American Style and Spirit: Fashion and Lives of the Roddis Family 1850-1995
John Lewis-Stempel: The Running Hare: The secret life of farmland
Dan Boothby: Island of Dreams: A Personal History of a Remarkable Place
Michael McCarthy: The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy (Wainwright 2016)
Katharine Norbury: The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream (Wainwright 2016)
Alexandra Harris: Weatherland: Writers and Artists Under English Skies (Wainwright 2016)
Melissa Harrison: Rain: Four Walks in English Weather (Wainwright 2016)
Anna Pavord: Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places (Wainwright 2016)
Oliver Balch: Under the Tump: Sketches of Real Life on the Welsh Borders
Joanna Cannon: The Trouble with Goats and Sheep (audio book)
Lynn Knight: The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women's Lives
Lucinda Dickens Hawksley: Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
John Beatty: Wild Vision: In Celebration of the Natural World
Diana Athill: Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter
David Mitchell: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Unabridged Audiobook)
George R. R. Martin: A Game of Thrones: Book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire (Audio book)
Quilters' Guild in Britain: Quilt Treasures The Quilters Guild Heritage Search
Mary McDonagh Murphy: Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of To Kill a Mockingbird
Charles Rangeley-Wilson: Silt Road: The Story of a Lost River
Patricia Cleveland-Peck: Auriculas Through the Ages: Bear's Ears, Ricklers and Painted Ladies
Dominick Tyler: Uncommon Ground: A word-lover's guide to the British landscape
James Rebanks: The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District
Nan Shepherd: The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (Canons)
Andrew Martin: Belles and Whistles: Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains
John Lewis-Stempel: Meadowland: the private life of an English field
Philip Marsden: Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
Rachel Trethewey: Mistress of the Arts: The Passionate Life of Georgina, Duchess of Bedford
Ted Nield: Underlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscape
Philip Marsden: Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
Ellis Peters: A Morbid Taste For Bones (The Cadfael Chronicles)
Richard Davenport-Hines: Ettie: The Intimate Life And Dauntless Spirit Of Lady Desborough
Lucinda Gosling : Knitting for Tommy: Keeping the Great War Soldier Warm
Richard Benson: The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family
Louise Carpenter: An Unlikely Countess: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
May Wedderburn Cannan: The Tears of War: The Love Story of a Young Poet and a War Hero
Meg Lukens Noonan: The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury & Obsession on the Trail of a $50,000 Coat
Nicholas Mosley: Julian Grenfell: His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915 (Persephone book)
Helen Rappaport: Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
Judith Tebbutt: A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival
May Wedderburn Cannan: The Tears of War: The Love Story of a Young Poet and a War Hero
Catherine Reilly: Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War
Juliet Nicolson: The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911
Juliet Nicolson: The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War
Claudia Renton: Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power
Nicholas Mosley: Julian Grenfell: His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915
Rachel Cooke: Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties
Richard Mabey: Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants: A Cultural History
John Hunt : Our Everest Adventure: The pictorial history from Kathmandu to the summit
Anthony Cartwright: How I Killed Margaret Thatcher (Fiction Uncovered 2013)
Lucy Caldwell: All the Beggars Riding (Fiction Uncovered 2013)
Niven Govinden: Black Bread White Beer (Fiction Uncovered 2013)
Susan Macqueen: The Children's Nurse: The True Story of a Great Ormond Street Nurse
Robert Macfarlane: Mountains of the Mind: a History of a Fascination
Christopher Lloyd: In My Garden: The Garden Diaries of Great Dixter
Niall Edworthy: The Curious Gardener's Almanac: Centuries Of Practical Garden Wisdom
The Geoff Hamilton BBC Collection (40th Anniversary Gardeners World DVD Box Set)
Keith Wiley: On the Wild Side: Experiments in New Naturalism
Josie Jeffery: Seedswap: The Gardener's Guide to Saving and Swapping Seeds
Sue Minter: The Apothecaries' Garden: A History of the Chelsea Physic Garden
Philip Hensher: The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters
Miriam Darlington: Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter
Hannah Rothschild: The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild
Kate Summerscale: Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Phil Dampier: What's in the Queen's Handbag: And Other Royal Secrets
Merryn Williams: Effie: A Victorian Scandal - From Ruskin's Wife to Millais's Muse
Len Chester: Bugle Boy
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