Very brief, shallow thoughts on a few new books.
Knitting Rules!: My brief look at it didn't really pull me in. The impression I got was that this is a book that will inform beginning knitters and entertain the more experienced ones. Seeing as though I find it really difficult (that is, dull) to read instructions about knitting, no matter how entertaining (though I should probably give Elizabeth Zimmerman another try, eh?), I'm not sure this one is for me.
Mason-Dixon Knitting: I was surprised by this one, maybe because I never found the blog to be particularly entertaining. I don't know what I was expecting, but it seemed to be the kind of book you could just pull off the shelf and read a blurb and maybe get some inspiration. The nightie pattern perked up my ears (fingers?) a bit.
Inspired Cable Knits: Ms. Harlot's review of this got me all excited, but the real thing was a little disappointing. I'm not fond of the gimmick (it seems, I dunno, gimmicky?), and I suppose there's only so many cable patterns you can see before they all look the same. My favorite was the unplugged cables sweater, for some reason, and there were others that probably made the book a worthwhile purchase, as well.
Big Girl Knits: My hopes were high for this one, but they were quickly dashed amongst the rocks that are the models' boobs. The thing is this: no matter what you put a fat girl in, she's still going to look like a fat girl, unless you do some serious design mumbo-jumbo. The one design that really struck me as achieving that goal was the hourglass one by... was it Kate Gilbert? (All I can remember is that I seemed to like her patterns the best.) Most of the patterns looked absolutely no different from anything in any other books or in magazines (what's with all the heavy, rather shapeless coats?) except they used a lot more yarn. There could very well be a lot of great info in the front, but I was expecting amazing patterns that didn't get delivered.
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