A Knitter’s Home Companion is an illustrated collection of stories, patterns, and recipes from beloved knitter and essayist Michelle Edwards. This heartwarming title will appeal to knitters interested in not only stitches, yarn, and patterns, but also in the lives of other knitters, the lessons that can be learned from their craft, the ways knitting helps knitters cope during difficult…
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Author : Michelle Edwards
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Summary : “A cozy and charming collection of essays about the joys of knitting—complete with lovely patterns and yummy recipes” (Kate Jacobs, author of The Friday Night Knitting Club). A Knitter’s Home Companion is an illustrated collection of stories, patterns, and recipes from beloved knitter and essayist Michelle Edwards. This heartwarming title will appeal to knitters interested in not only stitches, yarn, and patterns, but also in the lives of other knitters, the lessons that can be learned from their craft, the ways knitting helps knitters cope during difficult times, and the role of knitting in family life. “Let [this book] keep you company when you need another knitter’s voice beside you,” Edwards writes in her introduction. Like a good friend, A Knitter’s Home Companion will inspire readers to laugh, cry, remember, be thoughtful, cook, and, of course, pick up their needles—sometimes to soothe, sometimes to celebrate, and sometimes to just pass the time. Divided into four chapters—Motherhood, Home, Community, and Legacy—stories range from “But She Doesn’t Have Any Underpants,” about the challenges of knitting for family to “Home Ec Workshop and the Mystery of the Indian Slipper,” about finding community at a local yarn shop. Projects range from mittens and socks to a baby blanket and afghan.
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Author : Emma Vining
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Summary : Inspiration for twist and cable designs can be seen everywhere in the natural world and the urban environment, from the cracks in the pavement to building walls, posts and pillars. In A Knitter's Sketchbook: Design Inspiration for Twists and Cables, creative designer Emma Vining shares her experience of capturing pattern ideas in many diverse locations and settings, offering a design-led approach to creating unique knitting stitch patterns. This inspirational book takes a new look at hand knitting techniques that uses twisted stitches and cables. It can be used in many different ways: as a stitch library, a collection of knitting patterns or as a starting point to inspire designers for a personalized knitter's sketchbook. This beautifully illustrated book explores: the history of knitted twists and cables; demonstrates how using different yarns affect stitch patterns; describes twist and cable techniques and terminology; presents a wide-ranging stitch library with ideas to inspire further designs; illustrates the techniques with ten creative accessory patterns. This book illustrates these techniques with ten creative accessory patterns in the form of 189 colour photographs and 141 line artworks.
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Author : Clara Parkes
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Summary : The renowned knitter and author of The Yarn Whisperer spins tales of a creative life enriched by world travel in this New York Times–bestselling memoir. In Knitlandia, Parkes invite readers and devoted crafters on excursions to be savored, through seventeen of her most memorable journeys across the globe. Her knitting adventures span from the fjords of Iceland to a cozy yarn shop in Paris’s thirteenth arrondissement. Also known for her PBS television appearances and hugely popular line of small-batch handcrafted yarns, Parkes weaves her personal blend of wisdom and humor into this eloquently volume that is part personal travel narrative and part cultural history, touching the heart of what it means to live creatively.
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Author : Ida Wirak Trettevik
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Summary : Knit your own beautiful garments for your family and loved ones – young and old - for every season with Nordic patterns for a year of knitting! A Knitter's Year will see you through four seasons of clothes to make for your whole family thanks to expert knitter and internet darling Ida Wirak Trettevik. Packed with 30 patterns and inspiration and ideas for the whole family, these Nordic designed patterns allow you to create beautiful garments with your choice of wool or mixed fibers. Create jackets, jumpers and skirts for adults, as well as cozy winter gear for the children, with your choice wool or mixed fibers. Each garment is lovingly designed by the author, Ida, who is shown throughout the book with her own family in their Norwegian home. These Nordic designed patterns allow you to create beautiful garments with your choice of wool or mixed fibers and include. How about creating a Classy pencil skirt for winter Cropped t-shirt for Spring Nordic summer top for children Turtleneck sweater for Fall Knitting garments has never been more important than at a time of increased focus on slow fashion and sustainability. With 30 projects, so you'll never be wanting for inspiration, whatever the season.
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Author : Lisa Bogart
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Summary : Through stories, tips, and spiritual truths this book captures the joy of knitting and inspires readers to share their beautiful creations with those around them.
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Author : Kari Cornell
Genre : House & Home
Summary : 5 x 7-1/4 224 pgs approx. 25 b&w illustrations
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Author : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Summary : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's deepest wish is that everyone understand that knitting is at least as fun as baseball and way cooler than the evil looped path of crochet. Every project, from a misshapen hat to the most magnificent sweater, holds a story. Yarn Harlot tells all those stories with humor, insight, and sympathy for the obsessed. Over 50 million people in America knit. The average knitter spends between $500 and $1,700 a year on yarn, patterns, needles, and books. No longer just a fad or a hobby, knitting has advanced to a lifestyle. Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter moves beyond instructions and patterns into the purest elements of knitting: obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's humorous and poignant essays find humor in knitting an enormous afghan that requires a whopping 30 balls of wool, having a husband with size 13 feet who loves to wear hand-knit socks, and earns her "yarn harlot" title with her love of any new yarn--she'll quickly drop an old project for the fresh saucy look of a new interesting yarn. Since the upsurge in knitting began in the early '90s, the number of women under 45 who knit has doubled. Knitting is no longer a hobby for just grandmothers--women and men of all ages are embracing this art. Describing its allure is best left to Stephanie who explains: "It is a well-known fact that knitting is a sparkling form of entertainment, as spiritual as yoga, as relaxing as a massage, and as funny as Erma Bombeck trapped in a PTA meeting."
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Author : Jillian Moreno
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Summary : Knitters are branching out and exploring options for creating their own handspun yarn. This is the book that equips them with the confidence and knowledge to realize their vision every step of the way--from fiber braid to dream yarn to knitted project.
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Author : Kathy Gleason
Genre : Humor
Summary : For any knitter who has ever wondered how much yarn was too much, or how many pairs of mittens in a row they could make without getting tired of it, or tried to explain why they would rather knit than do anything else, this book is for you. From learning to knit, to the incredible pride over a handmade item, we have all been there. So pull up a chair and get out your afghan while you spend an afternoon reading about the joys and pitfalls or your favorite needlework!
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Author : Rick Mondragon
Genre : Children's clothing
Summary : This is a collection of irresistible handknits for boys and girls, ages two through to ten, from the top designers at 'Knitter's Magazine'