Category: Book Review

  • Machine Knitting Techniques: Texture and 3D Effects

    Machine Knitting Techniques: Texture and 3D Effects

    If you have a little bit of Christmas Cash and you feel like investing in yourself for the New Year, pick up the newly-released Texture and 3D Effects Machine Knitting Techniques book. Amber Hards teaches texture and playfulness in her essential addition to the series. “[Hards] encourages you to explore…

  • Machine Knitting Techniques: Cables

    Machine Knitting Techniques: Cables

    Bill King has me thinking more like a machine knitter.

  • Discovering Machine Knitting by Kandy Diamond

    Discovering Machine Knitting by Kandy Diamond

    I love my vintage machine knitting book collection, but new machine knitting books just make my day. They’re proof that machine knitting isn’t dying — it’s still evolving, and dare I say, growing. Discovering Machine Knitting by Kandy Diamond releases in North America on October 10, 2023. It’s more than…

  • Confronting Color

    Confronting Color

    In case you missed it, I recently reviewed Alison Dupernex’s Creative Machine Knitting. And boy can I say I was excited but also nervous when I noticed she replied to my Instagram post about the review. …I threw all my designs in and my ‘colour madness’ to encourage and inspire…

  • Creative Machine Knitting by Alison Dupernex

    Here in the USA, recent Machine Knitting books seem few and far between. That’s not the case across the pond, and I’ve been able to find quite a few wonderful skill and pattern books published within the past five years from the UK. Here’s my review of Creative Machine Knitting:…