There are three things in this picture that ought to catch your eye. First, I finished a sock. Isn’t it pretty? You can see the picot hem in the corner of the picture, and it has a garter-stitch short-row heel that I learned how to do from Lucy Neatby. It is an all-round champ of [...]
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Book Review: New Pathways for Sock Knitters by Cat Bordhi
Though I like to knit socks now and again, I wouldn’t say that I’m a “sock knitter,” since my level of fanaticism is fairly low, and I’d usually prefer to knit a sweater. Moreover, though I have one of Cat Bordhi’s previous books (Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles), it hasn’t proven to be an [...]
Book Review: KnitKnit by Sabrina Gschwandtner
KnitKnit, published by Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 2007 I begin with a confession: I bought KnitKnit: Profiles + Projects from Knitting’s New Wave because I wanted Anna Bell’s Bridie pattern, and buying KnitKnit is the only way to get it. Really, can you blame me? Bridie, by Anna Bell, in Karabella Magrite Thus, when KnitKnit [...]
Book Review: No Sheep for You by Amy R. Singer
I’ve been looking forward to reading No Sheep for You since I first learned from Amy Singer’s blog that she was in the midst of writing it. I preordered it from Amazon months in advance of the publication date and have waited patiently for it to ship while many, many other people found and bought [...]
Book Review: Fitted Knits by Stefanie Japel
I received Stefanie Japel‘s new book, Fitted Knits: Twenty-Five Designs for the Fashionable Knitter, in the mail today (an Amazon.com preorder), and I’m very impressed with it. I ordered it because I generally like Stefanie’s sweater designs — though her aesthetic is sometimes too funky for me — and I wanted to add a book [...]