Winners and Cheshire Bookcat
Winners
The big non-US giveaway of five sets of five signed Allie Beckstrom books (the *lovely* UK release) is done! If I don’t hear from the winners in a week, I will be drawing new names. Winners, please contact me via the little envelope button on the corner of my blog Here.
Winners are:
SURI, who said: WOW WOW WEEEEEE……I love it! Signed give away, YAY! Thank you 
SARAH WEST, who said: I really love your books! I have read all of them! It would be amazing to get signed copies!
ANNABELLE H., who said: Argh, This is so awesome! Thank you so much! I would love to enter. I’m fron the UK!
CASSANDRA FAITH who said: I would literally cry if I won even a glance :’) Been hooked on the series for a few years now, so happy you’re doing this competition as I’m from Australia and am lucky to see a celebrities’ finger. You’ve got the magic in you, good luck to everyone x
IAN who said: OK, only just found out about the books. Gonna buy the first Allie Beckstrom book on Kobo. Would be great to get the whole shebang signed and in print!
Bookcat
Things have been pretty busy lately, but I managed to fit in a little knitting time. What did I come up with?
Well…my best friend told me she needed a weight to hold books open while she cooks or eats. She went on to list an alarming array of things she has employed to keep those pages open, including knives, bananas, and staplers.
My solution? Cheshire Bookcat:
Cheshire Bookcat is really the “Cat bookmark” pattern by Twins. You can find that here.
But instead of making a flat bookmark, I filled him with decorative beads. Um…these:
That makes him plenty heavy enough to keep those pesky pages open.
He really is just a test knit, to see if weighting and size works. Next time I will make him with smaller needles so his body doesn’t cover up quite so much text (especially with paperbacks). And if I can find it….I think I’ll try some glow-in-the-dark yarn for his stripes and smile. 🙂
Details: Red Heart acrylic yarn in stash. Size 4 (US) needles. Knit flat.
10 Comments
Marisa Di Filippo
OMG Devon! That is so incredibly cute!!! Making me grin 😀 And since you mentioned it, here’s some glow in the dark yarn:
http://www.swicofil.com/glow_yarn.html
Love the idea and its purpose… a real treasure!
Marisa Di Filippo
Devon, how do I take off the angry icon I keep getting whenever I post messages? I seem to have no control over it 🙁
sooz
Maybe you are just angry that you don’t have your own book cat… I know I am!
Zita Hildebrandt
You’ll have to share this pattern with us. I love it!
Zita Hildebrandt
I now I see where you did share it with us 🙂 Don’t mind me! It’s early yet.
Deborah Blake
I don’t knit alas. But since I MUST have one of those, clearly you MUST make me one 🙂
Colleen
Between Stone,the dang cute fierce little chicken and this you are seriously inspiring me to take up knitting!
Dawn Young
Very cute. Love the colors!
BTW – I saw Stone at Guentner’s! About two feed tall, I think.
celeste
….. want one…
celeste
i absoloutly love how u did the pads of the feet as well and ur idea of the glow in the dark is brilliant and so creative but i would expect nothing less of such a good author lol