Comments on: 10 books http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/ a blog hosted by norah gaughan & amanda keep Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Amy http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-2551 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:41:11 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-2551 Hi Norah, thanks for the great list… do you have an ISBN for the Pingouin book? I couldn’t find it after a casual search… I’ve already added several others to my library list. :-)

]]> By: Mary Jo Stone http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-629 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:26:52 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-629 Where can I find Barbare Walkers Knitting books? I used to have one of hers and is lost. I`am a knitter of some years ago. So possibly, I had her first book out . I knit alot of items for my greatgrandchildren.Mary Jo

]]> By: Jane http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-456 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:55:47 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-456 Don’t know what I’d do without Barbara Walker, but I also would really recommend The Knitter’s Book of Finishing Techniques by Nancie M. Wiseman.

]]> By: michaela http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-451 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:18:01 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-451 Like others before me, Knitting Nature is my favourite knitting book ever. If I had to get rid of all my books, this would be the last one to go. I have made loads from it and still want to do more.

]]> By: Emma in France http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-434 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:35:40 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-434 The Lesley Stanfield sitch dictionary is wonderful, isn’t it. I think it’s exactly how a stitch dictionary should be done. I particularly like the thumbnail index of each stitch pattern.

One of my favourite inspiration books is Unexpected Knitting by Debbie New. Just five minutes with that book leaves my head swirling with ideas.

I also loved Knitting Nature, I think I’ve queued more patterns from that on Ravelry than any other book.

]]> By: kathy freeland http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-414 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:21:21 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-414 like the top ten list
a favorite of mine is ‘No Idle Hands’, social history of American Knitting by Anne Macdonald, there is a brand new updated printing now available at
Amazon.com.
It lifts my spirits and makes us knitters pieces of a much larger world.
Knitting is done for fun and frolic now; in the past knitting was a necessary part of housekeeping and MUST be done for the socks for the family.

kathy

]]> By: kay http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-406 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:05:48 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-406 Have you seen Barbara Walker’s Fourth Treasury? It is really something! I’m pretty sure one of the patterns was the basis for Martin Storey’s blue pullover in the Holiday issue of VK.

]]> By: Cristiana http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-403 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:00:58 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-403 Top of my list, together with E.Zimmermann’s books, ia your Knitting Nature!
Thank you for your work!

]]> By: Vivian http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-402 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:31:20 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-402 Thank you for sharing the list. I thought Knitting Nature was going to be part of the list :-) It’s a great book.

Haven’t seen Knitting from the Netherlands before. Guess it’s hard to find now.

]]> By: tina http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-401 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:21:09 +0000 http://blog.berroco.com/2008/01/21/10-books/#comment-401 My ex (who I’ve been grousing about in the blog recently) not only got custody of my vacuum cleaner but my really great knitting references didn’t come back to me. If that isn’t the definition of evil, well I just don’t know what IS!!!!!

Your list makes me sigh. I haven’t replaced *most* of them, and the oldies, well they are hard to replace.

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