Carol Christiansen’s Shetland Fine Lace Knitting is a thorough and engaging book. It was produced as a result of the Shetland Museum’s efforts to catalog and fully assess their collection of Shetland lace knitted items. Although the book does include pictures of quite a few full shawls and garments, the focus is on motifs and… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Shetland Fine Lace Knitting
The Art of Landscape Knitting by Anne Le Brocq is an interesting knitting book that gives you knitting block or repeat patterns that represent different types of terrain or things you would see in nature. Le Brocq is a geographer as well as a knitter, so she has a unique insight into different types of… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: The Art of Landscape Knitting
This book is the end product of Kate Davies’ knitting club event for this year – a read along of several of Margery Allingham’s mystery novels accompanied by some lovely knitting patterns. The essays and patterns in this book were released periodically though the club time period. This club was a bit different from what… Continue reading Knitter’s bookshelf: Kate Davies’ Margery Allingham’s Mystery Knits
I recently hit a jackpot of older used knitting books, and am having great fun reading through them. A few of them I’m not sure I’m going to talk about here because they are pretty scarce and also pretty old. So I’m not sure you’ll be reading about the entire haul. But in any case,… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Used Book Trifecta
Jamie Lomax of Pacific Knit Co. has consolidated all her doodle knitting concepts and basic patterns into a book, and I am here for it! I pre-ordered it from the author, and got the bonus items you see here – a tote bag and a little limited edition set of knitting related doodles – a… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: The Doodle Knit Directory
Traditional Knitting in North Russia is a kind of tough book to review. It is interesting and informative, on the one hand. But kind of frustrating on the other hand. It is self-published by the author, Catherine Maslova, and was pretty clearly written and published on a shoestring. The author is clearly very knowledgeable. She… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Traditional Knitting in North Russia
The Shetland Trader books by Gudrun Johnston are labors of love and her effort to preserve the knitting styles of a particular place and time. Specifically, the Shetland islands in the 1970 through a company her mother owned and ran, The Shetland Trader. Interestingly, Gudrun’s mom was not a knitter herself. She designed the motifs… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: The Shetland Trader Vol 3
I recently read two very good books on Fair Isle knitting. They each have a different focus, but both are interesting and worth a read. Jamieson & Smith: A Shetland Story is pretty much exactly what the title implies. It starts with a history of J&S, lavishly illustrated and told in a reasonably entertaining way.… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Fair Isle Double Header
I’m finally getting back to the pile of knitting books on my shelf! Most recently I read two books on mittens and gloves – both were very good in different ways. The first is not a new book. It was published originally in the US in 2011, so it has been around a while. For… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Show of Hands
Quite A Yarn 