Directions
Leaving a long tail, cast on 10 stitches using all three yarns together.
Row 1: Knit across using all three yarns together
Repeat Row 1 until the scarf measures approximately 64". Bind off, leaving a long tail.
Weave in ends using the crochet hook. It works best to weave in the tails along the width of the scarf.
Kernel of Truth Muffins
1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1 cup corn meal
2 tablespoons sugar
3 teaspoons baking powder
¾ teaspoon salt
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup milk
1/3 cup melted butter
½ cup canned whole kernel corn, drained
In a medium bowl combine flour, corn meal, sugar, baking powder and salt.
In a separate bowl mix eggs, milk and melted butter.
Make a well in dry ingredients and add the egg mixture all at once. Stir until just moistened.
Stir in corn.
Fill baking cups and bake for approximately 15 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.
Acknowledgments
I want to thank Bill Harris for all of his patience and editorial help. I am excited about working with Jessica Faust in this new way.
It always amazes me how things from my past end up in my books. I certainly never expected the rhythm ball routine in that long-ago gym class ever to come in handy. The real thing was a little different than Casey and her friends experience. The University of Illinois was in the midst of moving their Chicago campus from Navy Pier to the new Chicago Circle campus. The women’s gym wasn’t completed and we were bused to a YMCA on skid row for gym.
I honestly don’t remember the choreography other than we came in snapping our fingers and bouncing the balls to a song from West Side Story. I’m pretty sure we had a hard time keeping a straight face.
It was fun showing off the Razzle Dazzle scarf to my knit and crochet group. They all laughed when they saw the giant needles but were impressed when they saw how the scarf turned out. I’d be lost without: Rene Biederman, Diane Carver, Najime Chawdhry, Terry Cohen, Sonia Flaum, Lily Gillis, Winnie Hinson, Reva Mallon, Elayne Moschin, Charlotte Newman, Diana Shiroyan, Vicki Stotsman, Paul Tesler and Anne Thomeson. Linda Hopkins will always be with us in spirit.
Roberta Martia has been one of my staunchest supporters since the beginning. Burl, Max, Sam and Jakey, as always you guys are the best.
Books by Betty Hechtman
Yarn Retreat Mysteries
Yarn to Go
Silence of the Lamb's Wool
Wound up in Murder
Gone with the Wool
A Tangled Yarn
Inherit the Wool
Crochet Mysteries
Hooked on Murder
Dead Men Don't Crochet
By Hook or by Crook
A Stitch in Crime
You Better Knot Die
Behind the Seams
If Hooks Could Kill
For Better or Worsted
Seams like Murder
Hooking for Trouble
On the Hook
About the Author
Betty Hechtman is the national bestselling author of the Crochet Mysteries and the Yarn Retreat Mysteries. Handicrafts and writing are her passions and she is thrilled to be able to combine them in both of her series.
Betty grew up on the South Side of Chicago and has a degree in Fine Art. Since College, she has studied everything from improve comedy to magic. She has had an assortment of professions, including volunteer farm worker picking fruit on a kibbutz tucked between Lebanon and Syria, nanny at a summer resort, waitress at a coffee house, telephone operator, office worker at the Writer’s Guild, public relations assistant at a firm with celebrity clients, and newsletter editor at a Waldorf school. She has written newspaper and magazine pieces, short stories, screenplays, and a middle-grade mystery, Stolen Treasure.
She lives with her family and stash of yarn in Southern California.
See BettyHechtman.com for more information, excerpts from all her books, and photos of all the projects of the patterns included in her books. She blogs on Fridays at Killerhobbies.blogspot.com, and you can join her on Facebook at BettyHechtmanAuthor and on Twitter at @BettyHechtman.