This is part of my Amazon order....2-at-a-time Socks, Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac, and Mason Dixon Knitting.The 2-at-a-time Socks is a nice spiral bound book and nice pictures but for an experienced sock knitter not worth it. Of course, this is from someone who loves toe-up and I knew there weren't any in this book when I bought it but I wasn't that impressed with the patterns either. I think it would be a nice book for a new sock knitter though.
Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac, don't hate me but I'm not the biggest Zimmermann fan. My daughter did a oral report on her for a sixth grade project and it was cute because she wore stuff that she had knitted and she could relate to her. Back to the book, it is a nice collection of her patterns (if you call them that). I ordered it because I thought the Baby Surprise Jacket was in it but it isn't.
Mason Dixon Knitting is a great book. I got it because my daughter wants the Psychedelic Square Afghan. There are lots of patterns in here that I will eventually knit someday. I haven't spent much time looking at it and think it will be fun to read through sometime. I wish I would have had the book before my yarn crawl so that I could have looked for the Yahki Yarn.
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What book is the BS jacket in? I was thinking about getting that book too, but I've read that either your and EZ fan or your not. I'm not sure...
it's in knitting workshop-I just bought it this weekend
to finish my post above, I bought the almanac for the pi shawl, I think it would be fun and having 3little ones around I need a 'mindless' knit - I'm gonna do it as a shawl first and then with ww to make a blanket for my Q sized bed.
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