What is that book at the bottom of the pile - Could it be? I had started to doubt it’s existence!

With all the amazing new knitting books coming out in the last year or two I have a list as long as my arm of those books that I’d like to add to my collection. I have restrained myself, for the most part, however, and did not purchase any new knitting books for most of 2006, content to knit from my magazines.

2007 may be a different story. It started with Poetry in Stitches. I stumbled on dear Hege’s blog at some point last fall and it was all downhill from there. I had to have that book, and it came in the mail early in 2007. Shortly after the love affair with Poetry began, I discovered pictures of Norsk Stikkedesign on line (hmm, now that I think of it, this may be how I found Heather’s blog - through a search for this book. I read her for awhile before I figured out that I knew her - he!**), and told myself I would hold off - after all, I won’t be ready to knit anything from these books for awhile.  But in March I heard a rumor somewhere in the blogosphere that it was going out of print. I have no idea where I saw this, nor can I verify whether there is any truth to this statement. I can tell you the very thought was enough to kick my ass in gear and I promptly ordered it from Amazon - explaining to Tad how much some out of print knitting books go for. Thus justifying my purchase, I looked forward to it’s arrival every bit as much as Poetry. Ahem, this was somewhere around beginning to mid-March. I was starting to doubt that it would ever show up. I even got a delay notice from Amazon. But it finally did arrive, about a week ago, and it is SO worth the wait. There are many projects in here that I would never knit, but just love to look at. There are at least two “lifetime” knits - as in, a project that I would dream about doing someday when I have the skill, and that it might actually take me a lifetime to knit it when I actually get around to it!

Books in general are something that Tad & I consider to be a great addition to our life and our home, and money well-spent. Even so, I try to keep my knitting book purchases to those that I will actually use, either as reference or to knit several patterns from. This book is one that I would hand down to my children one day with reverence (ok, maybe to a cherished neice - perhaps AB will knit!) .

The other two books have been picked up in the last few weeks with very specific purposes. But I think I’ll save the write up on them for another day - Both are certainly worth mention, and I am so glad to have added them to my bookshelf - But nothing can compete with this one for my affections at the moment.

**BTW, Heather had a great suggestion about procuring books directly from the author, something that seems so basic, but hadn’t occurred to me until she brought it up - what a great way to really support the author of a book that you love!