Knitting in America - A Review
When I got this book, I thought it was going to be a lot of cool stories and interesting patterns. And while it was a lot of cool stories and interesting patterns... it wasn't entertaining.
All of the stories were definitely interesting, and I enjoyed all of them. I would have enjoyed them more if the majority weren't stories of women who left mainstream society to raise goats, spin their fiber and then knit them into sweaters that they sold. The patterns all had no shaping and while they had interesting elements to them, they looked... well... dowdy. Matronly.
Now granted, they weren't ALL goat raising, fiber spinning, independent women. They were all designers and they were all people who rejected society's constraints and one way or another. I thought it would have been a more interesting book if they interviewed someone like Wendy or the women of Knit Happens or Anne Modesitts. People still devoted to knitting, but not such a one note book.
Two out of four stars. Worth borrowing from the library, but not owning.
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