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Are people enjoying reading these? I'm mostly enjoying writing them.
This catches me up-- I read this book this morning-- so these posts will go back to being one a day.
Elizabeth Zimmermann is the great writer to have come out of knitting books. I wish I could remember how I found her. I would almost recommend her work to the person uninterested in knitting, and would recommend it to people who are not knitters but not actively opposed to it. You can always skim the really technical bits. This one has less memoir than several of her others do, but continues to have her dry, delicious, perfectly shaped prose throughout:
( [from a section comparing needle materials] )
This catches me up-- I read this book this morning-- so these posts will go back to being one a day.
Elizabeth Zimmermann is the great writer to have come out of knitting books. I wish I could remember how I found her. I would almost recommend her work to the person uninterested in knitting, and would recommend it to people who are not knitters but not actively opposed to it. You can always skim the really technical bits. This one has less memoir than several of her others do, but continues to have her dry, delicious, perfectly shaped prose throughout:
( [from a section comparing needle materials] )
