Here's my shelf of knitting books and magazines. As you can see, I'm really struggling to make them fit into one shelf by now. I do however aim to do so, so I may need to go through them to see if there are any I can do without. Maybe a de-stash is coming up...
The books are to some extent sorted by how much I use them and how long time I've had them. Those on the right (and on the top) are those I use the most at the moment - and vice versa. Being on the left does not necessarily mean that this book has never been used, but rather that it hasn't been used for a while.
If you take a closer look you can see that I have many different kinds of knitting books (this section is link heavy; please note that in some places I put different links on adjacent words, so what may look like one link can in fact be many):
- Every Amimono/Helga Isager booklet or book published (more on my favourite knitting books tomorrow!).
- The handbook-type with techniques and sweater construction.
- The classics (at least four of them) by Elizabeth Zimmermann.
- A number of Kim Hargreaves' publications.
- Some modern classics from established Danish knitting designers Lene Holme Samsøe and Marianne Isager.
- Ysolda Teague's infamous Little Red in the City, which I never actually used.
- The Twinkle books by Wenlan Chia from back when that was top of the pops
- The knitting book that started my adventure into blogging, Ravelry, and international knitting patterns: Knitting Nature by Norah Gaughan which my mum brought home from the States. I have knit quite a few projects from this back in the days (2007-2009-ish).
- Some mainly inspirational books with interesting textures and constructions.
- A pile of magazines, mostly Interweave Knits and Vogue/Designer Knitting which I used to subscribe to before they became to boring and/or special.
- The Interweave Scarf Style, Lace Style, and Folk Style which were also quite popular some years ago.
- Booklets from Danish childrenswear knitting designers Lene Holme Samsøe and Susie Haumann.
- Another children's classic: Strikk til nøstebarn.
- The hits of today: Pickles' most recent book, Den Store Guttestrikkeboka, and the most recent Amimono collection (on top, i.e. much in use).
What does you knitting book shelf/shelves look like?
4 comments:
Der er mange gengangere fra min egen reol - hvor der absolut heller ingen ekspansionsmuligheder er...
Uuhh, der kunne jeg godt gå på opdagelse. Glæder mig til dit næste indlæg om strikkebøger. Jeg kan se, at vi har en hel del bøger til fælles. Men selv om man har mange, kan man jo godt anskaffe sig endnu flere. Vi elsker jo bare inspirationen fra gode strikkebøger, ikke? ;)
I love seeing other people's bookshelves - very nosy of me! My knitting books are more scattered, one day I will get organised and have them all together. I wish some of the Danish children's knitting books were available in English, such great patterns.
Vi har mange av de samme! Jeg kunne trenge litt flere av Amimonoheftene, ser jeg. Jeg elsker å se strikkebokhyllene til andre!
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