Ping to the Vast Right Wing Knitting and Needleworkers Circle. Come bring your needlework and let's talk.
You know, I love our group and our group name so much that I am tempted to add it to the memberships/affiliations portion of my resume. I could see it now...
Purdue Alumni Association
Purdue Agricultural Alumni Association
Vast Right Wing Knitting and Needleworkers Circle
(hee hee hee)
I'm still such knitting n00b, The book I use most often is a how-to book, with nice big pictures! I have problems remembering how to bind off, increase, etc. It's also got instructions for crotchet, embroidery, and tatting, but I haven't tried any of those things; I'm having too much fun with knitting. :-)
Great topic, KaC.
For knitting, I will go to my grave cluthcing Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Without Tears and Knitter's Almanac. Along with any and all of Priscilla Gibson-Roberts' books.
These two women took a fun hobby and turned it into a philosophical conversation, along with a touch of science, particularly engineering and topography.
They both gave me a strong base for designing, and just a joy in doing worthwhile work.
They are my heroes!
Pinz
I get Creative Knitting from House of White Birches. It comes out every other month, and I always find at least one pattern I want to try. (My "archive" for when I retire is getting HUGE!)
I don't really have an instruction book for crocheting.
I usually have someone teach me a new design, and just repeat from memory.
I get so confused if I try to read instructions from a book.