{"id":338,"date":"2009-01-25T05:18:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T05:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2009-01-25T05:18:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T05:18:35","slug":"a-wish-for-french-girl-knits-innovative-techniques-romantic-details-and-feminine-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amperzen.com\/blog\/a-wish-for-french-girl-knits-innovative-techniques-romantic-details-and-feminine-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wish for French Girl Knits: Innovative Techniques, Romantic Details, and Feminine Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cover<\/a>Okay, this is not a science or geek post so those of you not interested in the art and craft of knitting or fibery goodness can move along. But I knit. I’m working on about six projects now. Yeah, I’m flighty and I knit with the mood. I’m nearly done with some socks I’ve been working on of my own design.\u00a0 That will be another post later.<\/p>\n

But back on topic, I heard about this knitting book a while back, quite a while back actually, and it sounded interesting, but nothing special. Now it’s out in the stores and I hadn’t had a chance to see the book itself. The bookstores near where I live and a bit farther a field are light on the craft sections and finding anything is a bit hit or miss because most jumble the crafts all together and I haven’t figured out their shelving system because it isn’t alphabetical by Author or by Title or any other method I can suss out. And no the craft books aren’t even shelves by topic with all the knitting in one area and the crochet in another and quilting in another and so on — jumbled together. So, I hadn’t seen it when I saw the notice that it was out and that usually means out of sight out of mind.<\/p>\n

However, Knitting Daily<\/a> yesterday had this YouTube video with the author talking about the book. I found it on YouTube so you can have a peek if you don’t get Knitting Daily.<\/p>\n

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My reaction? Wow. I like all the patterns they showed except one and it would take minimum changes to make it one I did like. So, imagine my surprise when today after shopping we stopped in the book store and they have one copy on the shelves. I actually got to take it down and get a closer look. I just flipped through the pages but I liked all the patterns — that’s got to be a gazillion to one chance. Fact is, once I get to actually sit down and study the book I’d probably find that even though I like the pattern it wouldn’t look good on me. But, really a pattern book that I like everything in is unusual enough.<\/p>\n

Now it’s on the top of my Wish List. It will more than likely be the next knitting book that I get. What I like most is that the patterns all look like items that you could wear every day and feel special. And that’s mostly what knitting is about — making things that are special and\/or make you feel special but are functional and beautiful. On a quick peek — this seems to be one of those books with a higher percentage of “meeting my criteria” than usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, this is not a science or geek post so those of you not interested in the art and craft of knitting or fibery goodness can move along. But I knit. I’m working on about six projects now. Yeah, I’m flighty and I knit with the mood. I’m nearly done with some socks I’ve been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,9],"tags":[77,76],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiber","category-knitting","category-socks","tag-french-girl","tag-knitting-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t