Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the best-selling author of At Knit?s End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much and celebrated blogger and humorist of the knitting world, is back! Funnier than ever, Pearl-McPhee continues her running dialogue with her knitting compatriots ? cheering them on to ever-greater heights in the climb to make knitting universally recognized as THE peak life experience.

Both a celebration of knitting and a sourcebook for practical information, this book is a collection of useful advice and emotional support for the knitter. Pearl-McPhee examines essential truisms of knitting, side by side with tongue in-cheek warnings, realities, and fantasies about the act of knitting and the people who do it.

In chapters on everything from yarn needles, gauge, and knitting bag essentials to hats, socks, shawls, and sweaters, Pearl-McPhee unravels the mysteries of what it is that makes knitting click, from the inside out. She dares to question longstanding rules and uncover the true essence of what makes a hat a hat, a sock a sock, and so on. Insights into why certain techniques work encourage knitters to take control and knit in the way that works best for them. As she says, ?There are no knitting police.?

The result is an illuminating, liberating (and hilarious!) look at knitting that will comfort the experienced knitter, surprise the mainstream one, and entice the beginner. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-07-2009; Knitting Rules; I LOVE this book. Finally a sensible approach to knitting. I bought it for knitting socks, and even after lesson, I didn't 'get it'. This worked for me.Thanks Stephanie; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-02-2009; A Knitter's "Must Have"; If you are a beginning knitter or a seasoned veteran: you need this book. Aside from being hilarious, this reference book addresses what patterns, yarn companies, and salespeople do not, and that is, WHY gauge is essential (and when it...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-24-2009; Awesome Knitting Book!; I am just LOVING this book. Seriously. The author is just hilarious ( I love her blog too: www.yarnharlot.com) and lets us know that ALL knitters go through what we're going through.She gives sound advice and tidbits of info that we can...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-18-2009; One of her best books!; I love this book! IMO it's one of the best! Her sense of humor is so spot on with the topic and I love the simplicity of her pattern 'recipes.' Definitely a must have book!; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-07-2009; Knitting Rules; I LOVE this book. Finally a sensible approach to knitting. I bought it for knitting socks, and even after lesson, I didn't 'get it'. This worked for me.Thanks Stephanie; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-12-2007; From a seasoned knitter; The author injects so much humor into the sometimes frustrating learning process that any novice knitter would never give up in her attempt to learn!; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-30-2008; And the point of this book is...?; This is the most unhelpful, unfunny, uninteresting knitting book I have ever purchased. It's pretty much entirely useless. Any questions to which I sought answers from this book about a technique or a theory or yarn or whatever always...; read full review | report as inappropriate