KnitKnit: Profiles + Projects from Knitting's New Wave | 
|  | | | Title: | KnitKnit: Profiles + Projects from Knitting's New Wave | | Author: | Sabrina Gschwandtner
Kiriko Shirobayashi (Photographer) | | Publisher: | | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 01 September, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1584796316 / 9781584796312 | | List Price: | $29.95 | | You Save: | $10.18 | | Amazon Price: | $19.77 | |
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Product Description
Provides an intimate look at how 27 of today’s most innovative, inspiring, and groundbreaking knitters live and work
Captures the zeitgeist of the craft renaissance
KnitKnit, the highly collectible ’zine, has been featured in The New Yorker and on Style.com
All over North America and Europe, a brand-new generation has taken up knitting—and is transforming the venerable needlecraft by blurring the boundary between craft and art. In Copenhagen, Denmark, Isabel Berglund hand-knit an entire room. In New England, Dave Cole constructed an enormous “knitting machine” (he used excavators and utility poles) that knit an 800-stitch, 35-by-20-foot American flag. But the projects aren’t all of a monumental scale. In Los Angeles, Bridget Marrin knits little dollhouses—complete with lawns, shrubbery, and smoke-filled chimneys, all made of yarn. Using surgical wire, Indiana-based knitter Althea Merback hand-knits sweaters smaller than a dime.
Five years ago, Sabrina Gschwandtner founded a ’zine to tackle the blurry edge between craft and fine art. Now, her book KnitKnit brings together profiles of 27 of the most talented artist-crafters knitting today. But KnitKnit does more than just document their ingenious creations. Each of the profiled knitters has contributed a project—a sweatshirt kimono, a mohair and metal belt, a pair of high-heeled boots, a geodesic-patterned cap, even a teddy bear knit from fiberglass insulation—meant to inspire you to find and follow your own creative path.
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Customer Reviews:
• Nice Overview And Tendencies Sample 21 September, 2008
Nice overview of some trends (a few missing hands come to mind) of contemporary knitting. Must confess still find Knitta the most interesting http://www.knittaplease.com
- Reviewed by customer ID: A13JWL3PTL0D2E
• Very Inspirering And Fun 25 June, 2008
I love this book and have used it for inspiration many times. The photos are wonderful and the object are fantastic.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1WUMOJ4SXM2EF
• Best Knitting Book Ever 30 May, 2008
This book jump starts the "creative" instinct in any serious knitter. I have knitted 2 sweaters from the book and get stopped on the street and asked where I got my sweater. Of all my knitting books, this is my favorite, I wish I could find copies of the previous KnitKnits.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3HQ209S9LW1VU
• Who Else Is Out Here? 19 April, 2008
I loved Knitting in America (<> Knitting America, BTW) when it came out in 1996. Consider Knit Knit the updated version, with an entirely different point of view?
Whosit--Maggie Righetti? who talks about valuing a knitting book by the # of useful patterns divided by the price of the book? In this case, for me, forget the patterns just count the ideas, the inspiration, the reinforcement of knowing other people are working on the same frontier. Definitely, those knitted boots have possibilities. Need to find a source for abandoned birk footbeds... Electrical cord? Wow... I may have to knit something out of my garden hose stash yet.
If Debbie New used the picture of her stash in Unexpected Knitting, I missed it. For me, that picture alone is worth the price of this book. THAT'S how she does it! (A number of other studio shots give a realistic view of what a particular creator's world looks like; some are so cleaned up or staged as to not be particularly useful. IMO. YMMV. and all that.)
YMMV. Maybe that's the real value of Knit Knit. Here is a window into the variation in knitting in the world today. I love it that Ms. Pearl-McPhee can spend her life knitting socks and sweaters in wool. She lives in a cold place. I live in USDA Zone 7A, where we can wear wool three months out of the year. I need to find something else to knit the rest of the year, and sculpture is right up my alley.
In my version of a perfect world, publishers would save the pages given over to patterns and put that content on the web to download if you want it. I'd rather see another dozen profiles. Until the publishers of knitting books start calling me to ask for layout advice, I'll have to accept what they release. I'm happy to own this book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2ZHSXTQO831OS
• Inaccessable 17 November, 2008
I bought this book not from Amazon, but from Urban Outfitters. Although the projects listed were certainly interesting aesthetically -- some I would consider beautiful on an artistic level, which is why I didn't rate this with a single star -- the majority were utterly impractical on every level. The book really falls short on the 'how-to' aspect, leaving the reader puzzled as to how it all fits together. It positively reeks of hipster pretentiousness. This book is great if you're a rich 20-something-year-old artist living in New York City...fairly irrelevant for the rest of us. Definitely not for anyone beginning to knit.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2YKQKCQHM19FY
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