Knitting Books

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OK I'm leaping off of the Knitting Goddess thread to make one with book reviews. Please chime in!

I am in *love* with Kids Knitting by Melanie Falick (someone else mentioned it too) - I have it out of the library and plan to buy it. I just bought cotton yarn to make the bath puppets!

Knitting for Dummies has some good basic info and some good advanced info. It's a decent overall book.

Stitch N Bitch by Debbie Stollar is the first knitting book I bought. I learned to purl from it, I learned the long-tail cast-on from it, and I just finished the kitty hat (except for the actual kitty ears - and the pattern is available online for free if you don't want the book). I highly recommend it - it's fun and helpful and has great patterns.

The Knit Stitch and the Purl Stitch by Sally Melville (the first 2 books published in the "Knitting Experience " series) are favorites of friends of mine. I'm not as excited about them, but they have PHOTOGRAPHS of techniques, which I did find a lot more helpful than drawings in some cases. And some good basic patterns. These are also good first books to learn from, I think.

Knitting Pretty by Kris Percival was OK. It's another of the new generation of "hip" books, has the requisite cell phone cozy and such, and I thought it was fine but Stitch N Bitch was better. But you might like it.

I've been just checking out book upon book from the library. Please list your favorites and your thoughts - even if (especially if) they differ from mine!