Subtitle: Other Perils of Garter Stitch.
Some say mindless garter stitch knitting places them in a Zen like meditative trance. It causes me to mutter. Overhearing my muttering causes The General to lift his nose up out of the mohair and ask difficult questions. Last night, he posed these:
- How many authors of knitting blogs have actually published books?
- Whose, as yet unwritten, knit blog book do you think you’d buy?
What caused him to ask these questions? Well, several well loved knit bloggers have written books which seem to be doing so well that some knitters have developed the impression there are “vast quantities” of blogger books “out there”. So, The General naturally wanted to know, “Are there really a whole bunch of knitting blog books ‘out there’?”
I told him I’m aware of only a few knitting blog author or books: “Mason Dixon Knitting
This prompted The General’s to ask, “So many hilarious knitting blogs and so few books? In your opinion, which knitting blog author should write a book? “
The two of us had a little discussion and concluded there are two books we’d like to see: One by Laurie of “Crazy Aunt Purl” , the other by Franklin of “The Panopticon”. (The General has a mad crush on Laurie, who as you know, owns four cats. He visits her blog regularly. I want to read more about Dolores. )
So, if the two of them would just decide to stop eating and sleeping and figure out how to string all their hilarious writing into book length material, they’ve got at least two customers lined up and waiting.
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I am proud to say that I own NONE of those books. And it’s not that I don’t respect those authors as bloggers. Hell, I read most of them religiously. For some reasons their books just haven’t caught my fancy.
Now, if Rabbitch published a dictionary…
Comment by La (25 comments.) — 7/20/2006 @ 5:11 pm
I was going to say Crazy Aunt Purl… but you beat me to it (or rather, The General did)
Comment by Anne (7 comments.) — 7/20/2006 @ 5:14 pm
The only book of those that I own is Wendy’s. I adore her patterns.
Someday I’ll break down and get the Yarn Harlot’s books I suppose. I just haven’t reached that point yet.
I would love to get ahold of a book by CAP. The girls is just too damn funny and her cats are just the ticket for a good giggle.
I wish that Marilyn at the Knitting Curmudgeon http://www.knittingcurmudgeon.com/ would write a book. Lots of info in that brain of her’s.
Comment by Becky (98 comments.) — 7/20/2006 @ 6:57 pm
Laurie and Franklin? FABulous! A few others I’d go for: Lee-Ann (Fuzzy Logic) and Kristy of She Just Walks Around With It. And I agree with La - if Rabbitch published a dictionary, I’d buy that one in a heart beat.
Comment by racheld (0 comments.) — 7/20/2006 @ 7:35 pm
That dictionary idea sounds great. Heck, we need one with knitting terms– and having Rabbitch’s extra terms? The world needs that!
I’m pretty sure Marilyn is planning a book, so Becky should get her wish.
Comment by lucia — 7/20/2006 @ 8:05 pm
I would go buy a book about Dolores and Franklyn in a heart beat!!
Comment by Isela (2 comments.) — 7/20/2006 @ 9:01 pm
If *you* wrote a knitting book, I’d buy it in a second. I’ve learned a LOT from your blog, and refer to it often! I’ve often wondered why you haven’t written some time of sock-worksheet-type book…
Comment by denise (0 comments.) — 7/20/2006 @ 9:49 pm
I believe that Eunny from See Eunny Knit, Wendy from Knit and Tonic, Stephanie from Glampyre Knits, and Lisa Shobhana Mason from My Life in Stitches all have books in the works.
Yes, I am a knitting blog junky, and I will probably end up buying all of them
Comment by Chandra (2 comments.) — 7/21/2006 @ 10:59 am
Ohhh… those could be terrific!
Comment by lucia — 7/21/2006 @ 11:03 am
I’d definitely read yours because you rock, but– and I say this with the highest regard– you would need to get someone to test-knit everything for you to make sure the directions are proofed. I’ll volunteer!
Comment by Stitchay Woman (0 comments.) — 7/23/2006 @ 1:40 pm