We feel a bit knitting-adjacent this week - we're talking about buttons, and answering a Dear Scratch letter about cozy mysteries!

** Alternatives to buttons:**

• Shawl pins - https://www.etsy.com/search?q=shawl%20pins
• Screw in closures - https://juldesigns.com/screw-in-closures/
• Holeless Buttons - https://www.purlandhank.com/shop-online/hole-less-buttons
• Sweater clips - https://www.etsy.com/search?q=sweater+clips

Knitting themed cozy mysteries:

• Peggy Ehrhart: Knit & Nibble Mystery Series
• Sally Goldenbaum - Seaside Knitters Mystery Series
• Seaside Knitters Society
• Maggie Sefton: A Knitting Mystery series
• Allie Pleiter: A Riverbank Knitting Mystery

Other themes:

• Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
• Karen Menuhin: Heathcliff Lennox Series
• Alexia Gordon: Gethsemane Brown Mysteries
• M.C. Beaton Agatha Raisin series

What's on our needles this week:

• Sunshine On My Shoulders by Lissy Jane
• Only Ocean by Sylvia McFadden

Summer Knitalong - CABLES!

Anything you want... but make it with at least one cable! We cast on June 1, and there's definitely still time to join us - we hope you will!
#makegoodcables (no year, please!)

Send us your letters! dearscratch@scratchsupplyco.com

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