00P BOOK REVIEW – KNITTING STITCHES AND PATTERNS
A minor setback on the Rogue today. The needle got pulled out of the pocket stitches, probably during an energetic pillow fight last night. No great harm done and I can’t apportion blame as I was a...
View ArticleNOT SO OOP BOOK REVIEW – FOR THE LOVE OF KNITTING
Thank you for all the get-well wishes. I’m still flu-laden, and now joined with two sick kiddies at home, I am at least clear headed enough to sit vertical, type and knit. I don’t know where this...
View ArticleBACK FROM THE DEAD & ODHAM’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA
From the "This too shall pass" department, I announce the end of the work project that ate my life. The final submission was yesterday. I am now left with a horrific clutter in my office, several...
View ArticleANCIENT KNITTING BOOKS ON THE WEB
Back to a series started long ago, I present more summaries of out of print knitting-related books. But instead of exhuming these from my local library system, I found the full text of these works...
View ArticleAMAZING ON-LINE REFERENCE LIBRARY
Out web-walking again, I’ve stumbled across a treasure trove of books on spinning, weaving, and other textile arts. It includes historical and recent works on lacemaking, embroidery, tatting, knitting,...
View ArticlePRESENTS!
My self-awarded belated birthday present has arrived! I ordered three specialty books on lace knitting, only one of which is in English. They’re not out of print, but I don’t have a separate blog...
View ArticleKNITS OF THE TIMES
Several small developments on this end. First, I’m up to the final corner on my gray/brown shawl. One more night’s knitting should put it to bed. Then it gets added to the ever growing to-be-blocked...
View ArticleHOLIDAY REPORT
Altogether a satisfying holiday season here at String Central. We started off festivities last Friday, with a latke-fest. We decorated the tree and deployed the M&M Man Army on Christmas Eve day,...
View ArticleWHEN IS MORE OF THE SAME NOT MORE OF THE SAME?
Another post that only a stitching history nerd will love. The last post explored some differences between modelbooks that looked like they featured the same patterns, but in fact were not printed from...
View ArticleBOOK FIND!
I have stumbled into an unusual object – well, a set of three, actually. This is a set of the first edition German printing of Alexander Speltz’ Colored Ornament, printed in 1914, with text in...
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