B&N Knit-In
To anyone checking in here after meeting yesterday - welcome! Please come back and check in again sometime. And, a reminder that tonight (and every Monday evening) is SnB night at Catalyst Coffe (SE corner of Horsetooth and Shields) from 6-8pm. Come when you can and stay as long as you can. Everyone is welcome and we *love* show and tell 
Thanks for the heads up from Amanda, and her sharing the existence of the FTC SnB yahoogroup with Ann McCauley, I found out about a “knit-in” taking place at our Barnes & Noble yesterday afternoon. Often it is kind of hard for me to get away during the weekends, but DH is getting ready for NANOEDMO which starts tomorrow so I had no trouble sneaking away for a bit.
In the information we had, we knew that Ann McCauley and Donna Druchunas would be there. They are the authors of The Pleasures Of Knitting: Timeless Feminine Sweaters and The Knitted Rug, respectively. However, there was discussion that we should have all brought our entire knitting libraries had we known who all was going to be there! Also there were Ann Budd, Vicki Square and Deborah Robson. It was quite the who’s who of knitting book authoring
It was also hard to keep control of my pocketbook with all the authors there willing to sign their books for us. I ended up choosing to pick up The Pleasures Of Knitting: Timeless Feminine Sweaters and Ann Budd’s The Knitter’s Handy Book of Sweater Patterns : Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes & Gauges. I use her The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes & Gauges often and had been eyeing the sweater version for some time now. Despite the fact that the largest chest measurement in Ann McCauley’s book is right around 40″ if I recall correctly, I opted to pick that one up as well because the designs are great timeless designs and I don’t think any of them would be too difficult to upsize. She also has some great information in the front section about ergonomics when knitting that I haven’t seen in any other knitting book. I think it will be a very inspirational book.
I was *really* tempted by Knitting in the Old Way: Designs and Techniques from Ethnic Sweaters, however, I didn’t have the money and most of these books are much cheaper online. Also, our local library has two copies of this one on their shelves so I think I’ll be taking it for a test drive first, but Ashley picked it up. I think I will end up getting it in the future as it looks to be the type of book I’m more drawn to than books filled with complete patterns. There was talk of repeating this sometime in the future so hopefully I’ll have the opportunity to get a copy signed at some point.
It was a fun afternoon and I really enjoyed meeting everyone. I’ll have pictures tomorrow, I swear! I have some significant stuff to look at on Clapotis and of course there is the stash organization to share and items for trade/sale coming later this week as well.
Gaaaaah! Had I only realized this was happening I would have skipped going to see Constantine and attended the knit-in.
Comment by Snow — 2/28/2005 @ 10:35 am
Oh, I’m so annoyed with myself for not making it! I was having one of those days…not fit for public
consumption after I got sufficently upset thinking about returning to work Monday;-( And I really want a
copy of “Knitting in the Old Way”!! Luckily I can say I’ve had the pleasure of meeting all the other authors;-)
Comment by Amanda — 2/28/2005 @ 11:29 am