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Finally printed off a key card for my 2024 reading blanket! I’ve also finish the month of January portion!

What I’m doing:
I decided on a granny rectangle. This way it starts off small and gets larger as it goes and I feel like I can keep up with it better.
Each color corresponds to a certain star rating. Once I finish a book and rate it I’ll crochet one row in that color. Every two rows of color will be the accent color just to break it up and give a little bit of uniformity.
As for the color choices I wanted my blanket to have a little bit of a monochromatic look to it so I chose colors within the same color family and one for a little pop.

What I’m using:
•Colors for 1-4.5⭐️ ratings are from Joann’s Big Twist line. Purple,Pale Peach,Heather Purple, Lilac, Grape
•The sparkly color used for 5⭐️ reads is the Mainstays line in color Sweet Violet from Walmart that I already had in my yarn stash.
•The tweed color is I Love This Yarn by Hobby Lobby also from my yarn stash.
•I’m using a 4.5mm hook as I wanted the stitches be a little bit tighter than normal.
I have a few other yarny/book friends tagged below that are making their own reading blankets. Each one of us is doing something different.




If you are also making a reading blanket I’d love to see how yours is coming along!

Day 9 of color is silver!
This was a little hard but I ended up choosing The Hound and the Fury by Sandra Orchard as my silver book pick. The grey on some parts of the cover are pretty close to silver so 🤷🏻‍♀️. This is book 17 in the Amish Inn Mystery series and it looks like there’s a few different authors writing this series. Have you read it yet?
Pattern I chose was the Ripple Cloth. You can find this pattern for free in my highlights!
Book Synopsis:
A dog show has come to Pleasant Creek. Liz is hosting both 2 and 4 legged guest at the Inn.Liz decides to go to the dog show to unwind after a busy day. When she gets there the fur is flying. It seems that one of the judges likes smaller dogs. Those with bigger dogs think they aren’t being treated fairly. Soon that judge ends up dead. Stabbed with Liz’s knife. One of Liz’s guests go missing could there be a connection.

Day 4 of and todays color is blue! I have a few blue cozy mysteries that are all Christmas themed so I decided to showcase them all.
( book titles from left to right)
🎄Christmas Cupcake Murder by
🎄Candy Slain Murder by
And🎄It Came Upon A Midnight Shear by which is handing out in a light blue Bits n Bobbles hanging basket.
Hanging basket pattern available in the shop.

Day 3 of the and todays color is white.
Now this book cover isn’t exactly white but it is snowing and there is a sled on snow and that’s white so I’m counting it.
Dachshund Through the Snow by is the first book in a trilogy. I’ve read all 3 a couple years ago and they were really cute. They are on the shorter side. This first book is about 150 pages but it gets the point across and they were fun holiday reads.
I paired it with one of the only beanies I’ve made that has white in it.
Pattern is the azalea beanie by
Book synopsis:

It’s going to be a very murder Christmas…

Holly loves the small town life in Full Fork, New York, especially since she gets to spend most of her time walking the adorable dogs of the town’s elite. Or hanging out at her best friend’s pet cafe. And the first day of Christmas is no exception to the routine.

Until she arrives at her first client’s home to pick up an adorable Dachshund named Dixie and finds a co**se instead. The owner has been murdered! And, as the last person who saw her, Holly’s got a bright red target on her back. She’s got to figure out whodunit before Christmas is ruined.