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Book Review and Giveaway Faith, Hope, Love, Knitting by Lorna Miser! USA

May 20, 2009 by Linda Lanese

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Faith, Hope, Love, Knitting by Lorna Miser, is a charming book that it’s almost an autobiographical knitting project book. Lorna invites us to join her on her self-discovery trip. When she was a little girl her desire to knit was born while looking over her grandmother’s shoulder and watching her while she knit.  She believes that her knitting skills are a gift from God and how she meets invaluable connections she’s made with people on her knitting journey. With these new friends she shares her stories and listens to theirs. Each project in the book in some way represents a person that she has become friends with and has encouraged her along the way.  Of course, her grandmother was her first knitting instructor. Her grandmother prided herself in knitting amazing lace doilies on very thin needles. Although her grandmother was a very shy person she would take her finished doilies two different appointments and events to show others. Most people would be in awe of her talent and she would sell or take orders for her gorgeous doilies. The first project in this book is of grandmother’s lace shawl.

 

Lorna’s mother was a very frugal knitter and a seamstress.  She never had a stash of materials or yarns laying around their house.  She only bought yarn and material when she knew what she was going to create and when she was finished with the project she would create something from scrapped of fibers and never cast them aside as worthless. For some reason, I was very touched by this due to the fact, like Lorna I have so many skeins of yarn that I am sure I will never use. During this recessionary time we should all take a lesson from Lorna’s mother.

 

This hard covered book holds 25 beautiful projects for us to knit and each one has a story of lasting friends that Lorna met along her knitting journey that influenced her life deeply. When I do book reviews sometimes it is very difficult to find out anything about the author, but in this case Lorna tells us a great deal about herself and when you have finish the book you will feel that she is one of your friends.

 

Through people she met Lorna eventually was the founder of Lorna’s Laces where you will find incredibly beautiful hand dyed eco-friendly yarns and learn more about this dedicated knitter.

 

This book is available on Amazon.com. 

This Giveaway will run from May, 20th through June 3th.  Just type “Enter Me”

 

 

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Blueberry Learning Activities

One of my favorite summer fruits is blueberries, and there are lots of blueberry themed learning activities you can do at home or in the classroom, especially if you combine them with a reading of Blueberries for Sal. 

You can read the book, pick blueberries if you have access to them, maybe make something tasty with blueberries (or just eat them) and do some fun blueberry activities.

Homeschool Preschool has printable activity sheets the include coloring a blueberry and tracing the word, cutting practice, finding the smallest thing in a group, Q-tip painting and more. Add in an adorable and easy blueberry bucket craft from Inspired Motherhood using supplies you probably already have.

You can also do some Sal-inspired pretend play with this printable bear mask from Mom Life Made Easy. Or get some blue pompoms (or whatever little blue things you have handy) and hide them around the room so kids can go “berry” picking with their buckets.

Homeschool Helper Online has a full unit study related to Blueberries for Sal, including information about bears, onomatopoeia, b sounds, counting and more. This is not a free resource but it’s a great one for kids in preschool through second grade. 

Royal Baloo has a free set of letter b, bear and  and blueberry printables to go with the book, including literacy and counting activities.

Learn about the parts of a blueberry with this printable booklet from Little Learning Lane.

Get blueberry themed activity pages straight from the people who grow them with these printables from Critchley Family Farms. There’s a maze, facts about blueberries, a smoothie recipe, mirror image drawing, color by numbers and more.

Life with Moore Babies has a fun dancing blueberries activity kids are sure to enjoy. It’s based on the classic dancing raisins experiment but you can do it with whatever little fruit you have handy. Dried fruit is great for this, or you can try cutting berries into smaller pieces.

I love this blueberry playdough from The Craft Train. It looks so pretty and is made with real blueberries. Perfect for those berries that aren’t quite good enough to eat anymore.

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