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
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
Beaded Wrist Warmers from Lithuania by Irena Felomena Juskiene is a great example of a book that has a very narrow topic but covers it in depth. The title tells you what you are going to get, and then it delivers. The book begins, as books on folkloric crafts often do, with some backstory. The… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Beaded Wrist Warmers from Lithuania
Knit One Below is not a new book, though it is new to me. This is one of those books that does an in-depth exploration of a specific technique. The technique here, as the title implies, is periodically knitting into the stitch below the one on the needle and picking up both that stitch and… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Knit One Below
At one of the recent Virtual VK Lives, I got to attend a lecture on this book by the author, Cecilia Campochiaro. Hearing about her inspirations and her process made me curious enough to get the book. And I’m very glad I did! Although a key part of the book is a very in-depth look… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Making Marls
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
A little earlier this fall, I talked about tuck stitches in relation to a class with Nancy Marchant of brioche knitting fame, who is the inventor/developer of this new technique for hand knitters. Her latest book, Tuck Stitches: Sophistication in Hand Knitting, is on this technique. I actually bought this book over the summer to… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Tuck Stitches
Many knitters are probably already aware of the Starmores. For those who aren’t, Alice Starmore is a renowned Fair Isle colorwork and Aran sweater designer, with many books and other patterns to her name. Jade Starmore is her daughter, also a designer and artist. Together they run Virtual Yarns a site where you can purchase their… Continue reading Knitter’s Bookshelf: Glamourie
Quite A Yarn 