Category Archives: Book Reviews

Introducing YarnStories Podcast

Hi everyone,  I’ve been busy and realized that I haven’t posted here about what I’m doing. I’ve been posting to Social Media a lot, but hadn’t posted about it here. The long and short of it is that I’ve started a podcast!  I’m really proud of it and I’d love it if you give a […]

Review: The Knitter’s Curiosity Cabinet I & II by Hunter Hammersen

Knitters find inspiration is myriad places, but I’ve never seen a collection quite so vividly inspired as Hunter Hammersen‘s Knitter’s Curiosity Cabinet Series. These books (The Knitter’s Curiosity Cabinet, published in 2012 and The Knitter’s Curiosity Cabinet, Volume II, published in 2013) are inspired by vintage illustrations. The first volume is all botanical prints (flowers […]

Review: Metropolitan Knits by Melissa Wehrle

This is the first in a series of Knitting Book Reviews that I want to start posting to this blog. There are a lot of really great books written for our craft, and a lot of really crap ones. I hope to highlight some of the books I think are worth your while to check […]

Book Review: The Natural Knitter

I got a copy of The Natural Knitter: How to Choose, Use, and Knit Natural Fibers from Alpaka to Yak” by Barbara Albright in the mail last week, so I thought I’d write a review as I hadn’t seen one in the blogs yet. “The Natural Knitter” is a comprehensive tome on knitting with natural […]