Thank you for all of your entries for the competition to win a copy of Susan Crawford’s new book, Coronation Knits. I have selected a winner using a random number generator. I took the first comment to be number 1 in the sequence and the last to be number 17, and the lucky winner was […]
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The Jubilee weekend might have been a few weeks ago now, your bunting might be flagging and the street party a distant memory, but fear not, for you can keep the good times going in the form of a beautiful new book by vintage knitwear designer, Susan Crawford. As part of its blog tour, today
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I wish it were a knitting day… Ah, who am I to complain? It’s a working and research day instead! Just have to dodge the heavy showers on the way there and back. No time for train knitting on the way to work today, though. Instead, I’m reading feminist and Fabian, Maud Pember Reeves’, ‘Round
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The Knitgrrl Guide to Professional Knitwear Design by Shannon Okey, Cooperative Press: 2010. The Knitgrrl Guide is a very useful reference book to keep handy for all (newer) designers, as it is really the only one that specifically deals with the business end of knitwear design. If you’re looking for a book to help you
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Now, I’m not much of a lace knitter, but Donna Druchunas’ latest book, Successful Lace Knitting caught my attention because more than just a pattern book, it is a work of knitting history. Druchunas investigates the work of Dorothy Reade, an American knitter and designer of the 1960s. Although she worked at the same time
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