Martini decided to knit the extraordinarily complicated Alice Starmore Fair
Isle sweater pattern, known as Mary Tudor, and now chronicles her 12 months.
experience. Shades of Julie and Julia? Well, yes, but Martini offers a deeper,
more reflective narrative, one that showcases her interactions with other well-
known stitchers; her book features family snippets and personal philosophies
and her travels to places where knitters congregate, such as Toronto and
Rhinebeck, New York. We meet Ann Shayne, coauthor of Mason-Dixon Knitting (2006),
as well as Amy R. Singer, .Master of the Knitting Universe.. We learn a lot about
the craft (or is it an art?) from statistics and these profiles of major figures
as well as achieve an understanding of the community that binds knitters together.
Marvel.even if you.re a nonknitter.at Martini.s way with words: .Scissors and
knitting go together like mashed potatoes and chocolate syrup.. Purling through
life was never so fascinating.

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