Coming around full circle
I originally started being serious with knitting when I read Debbie Stoller’s Stitch ‘N Bitch. The way she writes and teaches knitting through real-life experience and easy to understand illustrations, makes you feel like you’re hanging out with your buddy, laughing and learning a new hobby. She’s witty, and sometimes downright hilarious. (I have actually laughed out loud while reading this book, and subsequently received strange looks from members of my immediate family.)
I loaned the book to my sister, Elise, who had mentioned she wanted to learn to knit. Since we were still not extremely close, I didn’t think she’d want to learn from me, and so I let her borrow the book. Well, that was over a year ago, and she just returned it to me.
I feel like I’ve found an old friend again! I love this book more than I can say, and have also bought every other item written by Debbie Stoller. I’m not obsessed - just a fan that wants to support her hero. That’s all.
(By the way I have now received *2* personal emails from Debbie Stoller. How freakin’ cool is that?)
Upon flipping through the section with the color pics of the patterns, I realized that since owning this book I have increased in skill and confidence to tackle ANY pattern in the book. How liberating!
So now I am going to make every pattern in the book.
Since I’m a much faster knitter now, and I knit Continental style, I figure I’ll get through the whole book in a year, if I do them one at a time. AND I’ll be able to use up much of my stash, if I substitute yarn for most of the patterns, which is one of my knitting resolutions. (PS: I have up until now only made the simplest of patterns in the book, those being the first 3 “training” patterns listed. This is because when I went to do a different one, I screwed it up somehow. and ended up making a baby hat. Yeah.)
SO…
For the first pattern, I’m making the
Although I’m subbing in some Bernat eyelash yarn for the one they used, and a real cheap acrylic for the cotton. It should look similar, and yet completely different. PTC
Debbie Stoller, Stitch ‘N Bitch, patterns, books, knitting
January 12th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
I’ve been wanting to check out that book for a while now.