A year or so ago, Vogue Knitting magazine ran an article about a new book by Danish knitting expert Vivian Hoxbro, Traditional Danish Sweaters. As the name implies, the book was about traditional Danish knitted garments, somewhat misleadingly named “night sweaters”. (The name is somewhat misleading because – spoiler alert! – although they were worn… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Traditional Danish Sweaters
A recent visit to our fabulous local used bookstore (Title Wave) netted me a copy of a book I have been wondering about but had never looked at. This is Knitting Nature by Norah Gaughan. It is not a new book by any means, having been published in 2006. It consists of 39 patterns designed… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Knitting Nature
This past weekend we went to our local fabulous used book store – Title Wave. Thanks to our recent KonMari-ing of our house, we have huge piles of credit, so I went to raid the knitting book section. “Wait,” you may say “I thought you were getting rid of things?” And yes, I mostly am.… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Used Book Haul Edition
Knitting books and magazines normally trickle in one every other month or so, other than small deluges around Christmas and my birthday. But this week I had a sort of perfect storm of knitting books coming in. I only bought one of these books, Firmament, on purpose from Amazon. The others are all courtesy of… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Knitstravaganza
I bought my copy of Amy Herzog’s new sweater book shortly after it came out around a month ago, and have been reading through it in bits and pieces ever since. In between there have been a few more books that have come out that I had to read (a new Rivers of London and… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Amy Herzog’s Ultimate Sweater Book
No, it’s nothing to do with Canadians and beer! The newest book from Tin Can Knits is Strange Brew: A Colorwork Knitting Adventure. I bought my copy directly from Tin Can Knits – they are in England, so shipping isn’t super fast, but I got mine in pretty good time. It is an interesting collection, as… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Strange Brew
If you keep an eye on the gansey-knitting book options (and if not, why not?) you are likely aware that Beth Brown-Reinsel has just put out an update on her 1993 classic, Knitting Ganseys. If not, you just learned something new! What is a gansey? Chapter 1 in both versions helpfully answers that question. Ganseys… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Knitting Ganseys Update
