by Kay Gardiner, Ann Meador Shayne
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Product Description
Dear Fellow Knitter,
Welcome! Come on in. Have a seat—we’ve been waiting for you.
Ever since our first book, Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters’ Guide, we’ve been exploring techniques and ideas that we once thought were the sort of thing that only brilliant knitters could do.
Our conclusion: We are all brilliant knitters!
None of this is rocket science! If you can knit a garter stitch scarf, you’ve figured out the hard part. Now it’s time for the fun to start. You hold in your hands the result of our odyssey. It’s a new collection of 30 delicious projects that we hope will take you on your own knitting adventures.
Decorating Yourself: A collection of beautiful things to make for your most demanding (and forgiving) client.
The Fairest Isle of All: A simple, quick introduction to a sort of knitting you may not have considered, with surprising, modern projects.
Covering the Small Human: Pint-sized knits, including baby hats, dreamy dresses, and a cool pullover for the ultimate challenge: the Older Child.
Occasional Knitting: Projects for the special occasions in life—holidays, housewarmings, picnics.
The Sophisticated Kitchen: New uses for one of our favorite yarns: kitchen cotton.
We have filled this book with luscious photographs, stories, tips, rules, and hints. You’ll read how we arrived at these projects and the discoveries we have made along the way, and you will discover shocking things about us.
At all times, we have kept in mind Mason-Dixon Knitting Rule Number 1 : Knitting is spoze to be fun. Fasten your seatbelt—it’s going to be a fabulous ride!
Love,
Kay and Ann
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Average Customer Review:
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Fun and friendly knitting , 2008-11-02
I really like this book - it proves there can be a lighter side to serious knitting. There is much more to this book than found at first glance. Every time I pick it up I learn something! I immediately made up 4 of the Metered Hanging Towels as a wedding gift. Then I had to make one for ME! There is a wonderful coat in my knitting que on page 23! Encorporating a few tricks, this is a garmet that LOOKS & FITS like what its supposed to be. I'm ready for the enlightenment!! This is not just a book full of patterns. Its filled with humorous narration that will fan your fire of inspiration. These ladies encourage and empower knitters with practical info. that REALLY helps us NORMAL knitters to create fabulous garments. The Daily Sweater, for example. Well, heck, just knit it and you'll see what I mean!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines, 2008-10-29
I like this book for its innovation and sense of fun. The authors share their great love of knitting with the reader in such a genuine way. In reading this book, I feel as if I belong to a special group of people--knitters! This connection knows no boundary of age, class, or level of experience. It just IS, and these autors "get it".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Knitting books for reading!, 2008-10-28
I love it when I find a knitting book that I want to sit down and read. Ann and Kay are a fun pair. I've spotted two patterns I want to do immediately, two more for when I have time for full sweaters, and another I'll borrow a chunk of for similiar project. I ended up coming back to the first book time and time again, and it looks like this will be the same.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
I want to knit 'em all, 2008-10-24
This is a great addition to my knitting library. I found that I want to make many of the designs in this book. Highly recommended.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
 I LOVE Mason-Dixon knitting, but...., 2008-10-22
Well, I absolutely adored the first book, I love Ann and Kay, I read the blog religiously, but I just didn't like this book that much, I think because I just didn't like most of the projects in it.
I think the problem was that this book wasn't all Ann and Kay; they followed the same format as book one, but they had other people designing the projects. And the projects were kind of weird and strange. I mean, who wants to make cuffs for rubber gloves? Or dishcloths that you have to button onto something? Huh? And I guess I wouldn't want to use a shopping bag with holes in it either. As a kitchen project, I would have preferred something like a bag bag pattern instead of the mop cover.
The only things I liked in the book were the felted rug and the felted bag with the blue bird on it, but I don't really want to buy a book that only has two things in it I like. The green pea coat sweater was OK, but it needed to be a LOT shorter. All of the sweaters seemed really long. The purple sweater with a quotation stitched onto it was interesting, by virtue of the quote, but that sweater would only look good on someone with no chest and no hips. I guess that is the style now, but I don't think I would make it. I liked the denim skater sweater, but it was only featured in kids' sizes.
I was hoping the book would have more of the things that I like on the blog, like maybe some of the dishcloths, maybe the blanket that was made out of giant miters, some of the edgings Kay explains for blankets and dishcloths, or some of the other creative blankets that Kay makes, based on quilt design. The strength of the first book was learning a technique and then applying it creatively, often without patterns.
Ann and Kay have more good books left in them; this one just didn't appeal to me that much. I would like to see them concentrate on one specific area the next time--- a book just on knitting blankets creatively, just on dishcloths, just on sweaters and sweater coats, just on geometric objects and their edgings, or just on how to make felted rugs, perhaps by knitting squares and then sewing them together after they are felted.
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