January 2010

Review: Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques

by --Deb 01.24.2010
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Entrelac. Stranded. Intarsia. Stripes. Two-sided. There are so many ways to play with color while you knit, but… there are so MANY ways to add different colors to your knitting. What’s a knitter to do?

Run, don’t walk, to find a copy of this book.

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Review: Respect the Spindle

by --Deb 01.17.2010
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You know how they say the best way to learn a foreign language is to completely immerse yourself in the language? To go where it’s spoken, to live it, and breathe it as if there simply is no other language? Well, that’s how the author learned to spin.

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New, Wintery Poll

by --Deb 01.14.2010
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There’s a new, winter poll on the front page … How are YOU keeping warm this winter?

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Review: Knitting Lit

by --Deb 01.10.2010
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Sometimes, of course, you want to read about knitting, but you don’t want to read about KNITTING. You’re not interested in patterns. You’re not interested in yet another collection of stitches, or in reading the knitty-gritty of some new knitting technique. This is where essays are remarkably handy. Collections of stories, reminiscenses. Tales of sweaters [...]

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Review: Not My Daughter

by --Deb 01.04.2010
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Not My Daughter tells the story of three teenage girls who stun their New England town by forming a pact to get pregnant at the same time. The girls are all good students, “achievers,” as one mother puts it, which just adds to the shock as the ripples and the news spread.

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Review: Magnificent Mittens and Socks

by --Deb 01.01.2010
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The main part of this book is taken up by the mittens. Lots of mittens. Glorious mittens. Bright, colorful, creative, they make you wish for snow kind of mittens. 42 patterns for the mittens themselves, along with charts for the cuffs so you can mix-and-match, and an assortment of edges so you can finish your mittens however you like.

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