by --Deb
02.04.2010
Ranging from the simple (“Warshcloths”) to the sublime (those Log Cabin afghans), this book absolutely lives up to its subtitle of “The Curious Knitters’ Guide: Stories, Patterns, Advice, Opinions, Questions, Answers, Jokes and Pictures. Created for Knitters Everywhere who Share the Give’em Hell Spirit of Just Picking up the Needles and Making Stuff.”
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by --Deb
09.17.2008
In this, their second book, Ann and Kay expertly toss the narrative back and forth, bouncing the stories to each other in their own special fashion, perfected over at their blog. They’re fun. They’re conversational. They’re breezy. They’re serious when they need to be serious–like when Kay sits us down to talk to us about how “your handiest tool is not the Chibi needle case–it’s your head” in the essay, “The Independent Knitter, or Where Have You Gone, Elizabeth Zimmermann?” Or when Ann gives us her pep talk about Steeking in the Fair Isle section. (“It’s the knitterly equivalent of a controlled burn in a forest. It sounds terrible–you’re setting the forest on fire on purpose? But it’s actually very efficient, a part of nature, and in the end, a means to a result that would not otherwise be possible.”) In other words, it should come as no surprise to anyone that this book is witty and amusing.
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