Knitter's Bookshelf

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (the fifth of the series), Hermione Granger begins her knitting hobby.

Harry Potter is frustrated to be isolated at Privet Drive with no information about the outside world from any of his school friends. After witnessing the re-emergence of Lord Voldemort at the end of year four, Harry is irritated that he has no knowledge of what his nemesis is planning. Harry faces a year of torment and obstacles, but when he finally faces the Dark Lord’s followers, he and his friends are barely prepared.[Read More]

Imagine losing your home, your shop and your friends! Chloe Hobbs’s hometown has disappeared and in desperation she travels to Salem for answers, in Spun by Sorcery by Barbara Bretton.

The third in the Sugar Maple series follows immediately on from Laced with Magic. Chloe has finally managed to banish the Fae queen, Isadora. Unfortunately Chloe also seems to have expelled the whole town of Sugar Maple and all of its occupants as well![Read More]

Every thing is finally working out for Chloe Hobbs, half sorceress half human and mayor of Sugar Maple, Vermont. That is until her lover’s ex turns up claiming to be haunted by her dead child – in Laced With Magic by Barbara Bretton.

As well as being mayor of Sugar Maple, Chloe is the owner of a celebrated knitting shop. The shop is so popular that at times Chloe has difficulty keeping up with requests for yarn. Chloe sometimes wonders if its popularity is due to some kind of spell that has been cast over it. Yes Sugar Maple is inhabited by supernatural creatures. And after years of waiting, Chloe has finally been able to find her magical powers. She has also managed to keep the residents of the town safe by banishing Isadora, a power hungry fae.[Read More]

Kelly Flynn and her friends are struggling to deal with acts of vandalism to their property when one of the customers of the House of Lambspun yarn shop is murdered, in Dyer Consequences, the fifth Knitting Mystery by Maggie Sefton.

Kelly is an accountant who has recently arrived in Fort Connor in Colorado. She has discovered the joys of knitting and spends a lot of time with her new friends in the yarn store next door. What’s more, the House of Lambspun is attached to Kelly’s favourite coffee shop Pete’s. Kelly’s cottage was bequeathed to her by her aunt and she is now also the owner of a ranch in a nearby Bellevue canyon (complete with 15 alpacas).[Read More]

Sugar Maple is not the normal quiet New England village.  It is not just that the residents are all flawless or that the scenery is picture perfect.  All of the residents of Sugar Maple share a secret which the tourists could not guess at.  They all have magical powers.

All of the residents that is except for Chloe Hobbs. Chloe is the owner of Sticks & String, a popular knitting shop in Sugar Maple.[Read More]

A review of A Killer Stitch, the 4th book in the Knitting Mystery series, by Maggie Sefton. Derek was a local alpaca ranch owner and, although Kelly Flynn did not know Derek himself, she is at once determined to find out who has murdered him.

Derek was well known around Fort Connor for loving and leaving the ladies and Kelly soon discovers that her new spinning instructor at the House of Lambspun, Lucy Adair, had been Derek’s latest conquest.  [Read More]

No one can have escaped notice of the popularity of the Harry Potter books and films over the last few years. However, have you ever considered how many knitted items are prevalent in J K Rowling’s series? I thought that I’d read the second book in the series for the umpteenth time!!

Despite warnings not to go back to school, Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts to find that there is a threat to the students from a beast that has been held for decades in a hidden chamber somewhere within the school.[Read More]

In the third Knitting Mystery book, Kelly Flynn investigates the death of Allison Dubois, a talented young “fibre artist” on the rise.

It is Autumn and Allison is about to make it big with a move to New York to take up a lucrative studio job as a designer with Sophia Emeraud.  But when Kelly and her friend Megan arrive at Allison’s apartment to take her to the airport, they find her lying dead by her packing boxes and office desk.  Allison had taken numerous sleeping pills and so the police do not suspect foul play.[Read More]

When Susannah Nelson returns to Colville, Washington to look after her ageing mother, she renews old friendships, digs up past memories and contemplates reviving an old romance.  However, Susannah soon discovers more about her family, her friends and herself than she could ever have imagined.

Susannah finds herself wondering what her life could have been like if she had taken another path. Her life is in a bit of a rut. [Read More]

A review of Needled to Death, Knitting Mystery Book 2, written by Maggie Sefton. It is July and Kelly Flynn is settling in well with fellow knitting group members in the House of Lambspun, Fort Connor, Colorado but she and her friends are shocked when one of their group, Vickie Claymore, is murdered at her nearby ranch.

Kelly discovers Vickie’s lifeless body whilst she is escorting a group of impatient tourists up to the alpaca ranch in Bellvue Canyon.[Read More]