I was happy to find out that Ann Budd’s newest book — The Knitter’s Handy Book of Sweater Patterns is out! Amazon was listing its release date as end of September so I was pleasantly surprised to find out it’s already for sale. I’m ordering my copy today.
In order to make free shipping I added another as well. I’m finally buying Montse Stanley’s Knitter’s Handbook. For $13.97 and free shipping, I can’t really go wrong.
While perusing the knitting books I came across this soon-to-be-released book. It’s called Textured Knitting. Even the cover looks enticing! They say it will be released October 1st. I can’t wait!
And a funny story (well, sorta funny). About 2 months ago I spotted a link on Amazon for Alice Starmore’s Aran Knitting for $39.95. Of course, I had to give it a try. Well, this morning (w months later) I received an email informing me that they would be unable to fulfill my order. Wow – what a shocker.
Knitting Update
I worked on a few projects this weekend. I re-started my cabled sock and have gone through one full repeat. It has been super-slow going so far, but I’m hoping now that I have a block of rows as reference that things will go faster.
I also made good progress on my Philly Knitter’s Secret Pal project. I think I’m about 20% done and I’m very happy with this one!
And finally, I ripped my Linen Drape tank and am reusing the yarn in a wrap. I really like the idea of using a wrap around my waist in an asymmetrical sort of way. The tank just wasn’t doing it for me, so a wrap it is! I’ll post pics once it’s large enough.
No surprise about Amazon. I have ordered used books from Amazon before and had mixed results. Out of the last 3 times, I only received the book once. The 2 times that I didn’t receive the4 book, it took forever to get a respnse from the seller and even longer to get a refund. I am going to be hitting the used book stores over the next few weeks and if I find any copies of AS’s books at reasonable prices, I will pick them up. I will email you if you want whenever I find them.
You will really like the Montse Stanley Book! Although short on pictures it gives so many different ways to do cast-ons, bind-offs, increases, decreases and the like and when they would be most applicable. I like it better than my Vogue Knitting Book.
But imagine if you HAD got the Starmore book, oh, how cool would that have been?
Always worth a shot….
Would you mind bringing your new books to the S’n’B on the 15th? I’ve been thinking about buying them myself.
It’s good to see this place is finally getting the attention that it totally deserves! Keep up the excellent work.
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