Lately I read downloaded books on my computer screen as I knit. Walker 0 Ratings 14 Want to read 2 Currently reading 0 Have read Overview View 4 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date May 1998 Publisher Schoolhouse Press Language English Pages 300 Previews available in: English This edition doesnt have a description yet. * I remember reading an interview in which Walker described using a cookbook holder - a plexiglas frame designed to hold a large cookbook open but also protect its pages from splashes - to hold books open as she knit. A Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. That book is as important a resource in my feminist spiritual studies as this book is in my knitting. Walker was working on her knitting books, and knitting in general, she read while she knit, with research materials propped open in front of her.* All that research - years of it - ultimately became The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. This book - and any in the series - are a great resource, and I come back to them again and again. "boring", "works up easy, lots of vertical stretch," and such) are scribbled in next to the pictures. I still have a scarf-length swatch I knit from it in the early 1980s, a few inches of each pattern that caught my eye.
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