Archive for April, 2011
S4L Book Club Schedule
So who is ready for our May discussion of Lori Lansen’s The Girls: A Novel? I confess I only just received the book yesterday afternoon, and I doubt I’ll have it finished by Tuesday. As engaging as I find it already, and as much as I’d love to just hang out on the glider in [...]
S4L – The Graveyard Book
For this final installment of our discussion of The Graveyard Book, I just thought I’d record some of my thoughts. Feel free to add your own in the comments. First, I realized later that in my last post, I should have turned the question around and asked: is the author relying too much on the [...]
Stitch N’ Pitch℠
It’s baseball time, and TNNA’s Stitch N’ Pitch℠ program is under way. Stitch N’ Pitch℠ marries baseball and needlearts for The Perfect Double Play. Events are scheduled for major and minor league games across the country. Think: a big stitch-in at a baseball game. Check the schedule to see if there’s an event near you. [...]
2011 Bookmark Challenge
For collections being presented for Children’s Book Week, the 2011 Bookmark Challenge ends this week, April 28. The good news is, we’re stitching year round now for all sorts of programs. Colleen stitched bookmarks for a class in December. My community embroidered bookmarks for the local school’s Love To Read week in March. SuperMo’s bookmarks [...]
Funk & Weber Bookmarks 101 class . . .
. . . is About So Much More Than Bookmarks! We, Funk & Weber Designs, are offering our Bookmarks 101: Simple, Smart, and Swanky Finishes class May 9 – June 5. I developed this class to teach stitchers to make bookmarks from scratch so we can use all kinds of materials, fabric scraps, UFOs . [...]
Super Mo: Summer Reading
Maureen is our Needle and Thread: Stitching for Literacy 2011 Bookmark Challenge Super Model. Let’s talk about summer reading. I feel summer reading is very important to keep kids’ brains in motion. However, it should be a fun thing to do. Last year, at the end of the school year, my daughter received a pamphlet [...]
S4L Book Club – The Graveyard Book
Jen brought up an interesting question earlier – she questioned why we, the readers, are asked to accept some characters are good and some are bad with no supporting motives. And I wondered if that was an artifact of the book’s genre. In fantasy, does the reader take a few more leaps of faith? Does [...]
The Lesehund (Reading Dog)
This is one of the things I wanted to post last Wednesday. See? I remembered! Harriet sends us this story from her local news in Norway about Ido the “lesehund” or “reading dog.” The video is in Norwegian, of course, but, lucky for us, Harriet is bilingual and can translate for us. (Even if you [...]
S4L – The Graveyard Book
Today, I thought we’d discuss the setting of the book. Obviously, the setting is a big part of The Graveyard Book – it is there in the title! To be more precise, however, the setting is a graveyard in Britain. Thus, the residents of the graveyard span from pre-Roman to slightly more modern times (although [...]
Who Stitches for Literacy?
Kat Rocha, owner and designer of Cross Eyed Kat, has been Stitching for Literacy since the program began, and now she’s also collecting bookmarks to donate locally—and she needs help from us. Can you stitch a bookmark or two for Kat’s collection? Send them to Cross Eyed Kat PMB #294 14900 Avery Ranch Blvd Suite [...]
, by Elizabeth Strout.
by Kathryn Stockett
