Scoop!

My bad luck has broken!

Today, I found five lovely knitting books, and paid—-hold onto your hat—-$4. Thank you, library book sales!

Obviously the library decided to clean out their knitting section, and decided that the following were not worth keeping.

1. Meg Swanson’s Knitting: 30 Designs for Hand Knitting

2. The Handknitter’s Design Book: A Practical Guide to Creating Beautiful Knitwear By Allison Ellen

3. Kaffe’s Classics: 25 Favorite Knitting Patterns for Sweaters, Jackets, Vests, And More/ By Kaffe himself, of course

4. The Complete Book of Traditional Knitting by Rae Crompton

5. The Complete Book of Traditional Fair Isle Knitting by Sheila McGregor

The last two are funny little ducks; neither having any color pictures inside, because they are older. Right now, these books are basically eye candy, since I have absolutely no skills to make anything in any of them, unless there is such a thing as a sweater done entirely in garter stitch. Hopefully I will be able to say more about them after browsing them.

You cannot imagine my triumph when I spotted them. Just imagine a rather silly looking person swooping upon a table and randomly begin grabbing books, then creep away stealthily, waiting for the knitting gods to strike with anger and vengeance, and you have a good idea of what I looked like.

Ridiculous, and ridiculously happy and smug.