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Denna bok köpte jag från Amazon sommaren 2004. Den förförde mig. Låg och sträckläste en hel natt utan att sova. Blev oerhört inspirerad av intervjuerna med konstnärligt kreativa färgare, stickare, vävare, reportagen och helt underbara bilder. På slutet finns lite grann om tekniker. Det var konstnärernas/hantverkarnas liv och verk som inspirerade till mina egna färgorgier i fyra år framåt.
 
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svenskulla | Apr 8, 2014 |
I love the premise of the story: once upon a time there were 12 knitting witches who together dyed, spun and knit embracing the magic in them and the crystals the land provided. The circle was broken when one of the 12 sought to harness the power herself, and what was once good and true turned dark and evil. Twenty years have passed and the world has fallen to ruin. The witches have gone their separate ways. Magic has been outlawed, there is fighting and destruction and food and water are scarce. It is up to the Potluck Queen to gather the witches together once more if there is to be any hope of restoring balance and order to the Middlelands.

Sounds good doesn't it? Unfortunately, I struggled - with the way the story was told, the way that the knitting terms were used (for example: yarns being stories and simmers are a gathering together), and the way that the characters were introduced. At first I thought that it might be because I'm not used to stories that are about places and things that don't exist in my world. I have a good imagination and I've never had difficulty with my reading comprehension, yet this one was hard for me.

I stuck with it and the more that I got into the story the easier that it was for me to piece things together, but this is supposed to be a young adult book! If I had such a hard time, and had to work to make sense of things what will it be like for an 11 year old? I think a glossary would help to understand how the author is using certain worlds and to assist with the vocabulary in general. The dialect seems to be a combination of old English, knitting/fiber references and words unique the people of the Middlelands.

The book moves along slowly. We are introduced to each of the witches, along with several other characters as they are making their way back Potluck Yarns. I had a hard time keeping track of who was who and how their individual stories impacted the group. I felt like there was a lot of detail that didn't benefit the story. I was also surprised by how little magic there was. I know that it was outlawed, but I would like to think that somehow at least a few would have managed to be true to their born talents. I suppose that I was hoping more would happen in this first book . For me the books best moments take place in the last few chapters. It's during these pages that I could sense the true potential that the story holds.

For the rest of this review and many more, visit my blog, Robin Reads and Writes
http://crochetnirvana.weebly.com/2/post/2013/08/the-broken-circle-by-cheryl-pott...
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RobinBrz | Aug 19, 2013 |
This book has a nice selection of different types of patterns split up by yarn weight. The only drawback I see is that most pattens call for expensive Cherry Tree Hill yarn and some of the skeins have over 1,000 yards of yarn. That said, I can see myself knitting quite of few of the patterns even if I have to use less expensive yarn.
 
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