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Last week one of our customers invited me to go with her to a book signing by Michelle Hunter.  As many of you know, Michelle is the force behind our Skacel Knit Alongs (KALs).  I have really enjoyed participating in the KALs as have many of you.  So, I thought it would be fun to go up to Dublin, buy a book and have my new book signed by the author.
 Michelle's new book is called Building Blocks (see the picture to the right).  It is a great little paper back kntting book for a beginner.  It has 12 blocks each of which introduces a new technique.  As usual, Michelle has paid absolute attention to detail and has instructions (and references to videos) to assist you with the techniques she is teaching.  The vlocks are easy, but not boring.  I consider myself to be a fairly accomplished knitter and I don't find the blocks boring, but they are not complicated either.  The idea is to do a block a month and at the end of 12 months--you have an afghan.

This is a picture of Building Block 1 (k-knit, p-purl) which I completed this weekend.  It took about 5-6 hours.  "Building Blocks" calls for HiKoo's Simpliworsted on a size 10 needle.   I made mine with Cascade 128.  The Cascade is a little bit heavier, but calls for a size 10.  The great thing about doing blocks is that as long as you use the same yarn for all 12 of them, the gauge really doesn't matter to much.

If any of you are interested, let me know and we can do a block of the month KAL-class here at the store.  Michelle is not planning on doing a KAL at the moment, but designed this book and project for stores to use.  I can order the books and the yarn in the colors you want.  Michelle might even come to the store to get us started  and sign your books.  That would cost all of us a bit more, but would be worth it.  What do you think!