hahaha thanks! i am sooooo not the queen of knitting though... i got back into seed beading, after flirting with it right around the time i got out of high school, and i remembered how much i hate it. so lately, i have been on a bit of a Knitting Kick, after falling out of it for a while (when i was knitting only at school during lecture/discussion classes where profs didnt mind). and it's something productive i can do while i'm watching tv in the evening or etc.
i feel more like an enthusiastic puppy tho. like i said, i'm just starting to feel like i can tackle "advanced beginner" and intermediate projects. and surprised to find myself really wanting to do fair isle. the problem is that i hate 80s preppie fair isle, dorky ski sweaters, but i see stuff like Alice and Jade Starmore's colorwork and like the Norsk Strikkedesign book and THOSE are really great, like tapestries or something, and that's what I want to do. sweaters like ones i've had in my head for many years.
otoh, as far as the books... i think everyone should check out different books & decide for themselves. i do like that Yarn Girls book, but i think the stuff in it is too simple and maybe too similar to stuff i already have, since i have a couple of years of magazines here and a small stack of books. i have a similar feeling about a lot of the other "simple knitting" books that are coming out. and i've just gotten bored, after 3 garter scarves, of doing garter stitch! but i also have certain preferences for sweater patterns and so on. i'm trying to retrain myself, so i buy MORE yarn and FEWER books.
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Date: 2002-11-10 06:18 am (UTC)i got back into seed beading, after flirting with it right around the time i got out of high school, and i remembered how much i hate it. so lately, i have been on a bit of a Knitting Kick, after falling out of it for a while (when i was knitting only at school during lecture/discussion classes where profs didnt mind). and it's something productive i can do while i'm watching tv in the evening or etc.
i feel more like an enthusiastic puppy tho. like i said, i'm just starting to feel like i can tackle "advanced beginner" and intermediate projects. and surprised to find myself really wanting to do fair isle. the problem is that i hate 80s preppie fair isle, dorky ski sweaters, but i see stuff like Alice and Jade Starmore's colorwork and like the Norsk Strikkedesign book and THOSE are really great, like tapestries or something, and that's what I want to do. sweaters like ones i've had in my head for many years.
otoh, as far as the books... i think everyone should check out different books & decide for themselves. i do like that Yarn Girls book, but i think the stuff in it is too simple and maybe too similar to stuff i already have, since i have a couple of years of magazines here and a small stack of books. i have a similar feeling about a lot of the other "simple knitting" books that are coming out. and i've just gotten bored, after 3 garter scarves, of doing garter stitch! but i also have certain preferences for sweater patterns and so on. i'm trying to retrain myself, so i buy MORE yarn and FEWER books.