New knitting books are about as much fun as new yarn. Last week at knitting night, Kathy brought a big stack of books for us to flip through. The two favorites that emerged were "Knit 2 Together" by Tracey Ullman and Mel Clark, and "Museum of Kitschy Stitches: A Gallery of Notorious Knits" by Stitchy McYarnpants.

This book is seriously laugh out loud funny. I only recently came across Stitchy's blog (I know, I'm soooo behind the times!). But let me tell you, this book is so funny that Kevin actually picked it up and read it all on his own! His favorite is the helmet guy on page 71. If you have the book (and you should!), you'll know who I mean. I wasn't too sure about this book at first. I read a review/article about it in Interweave (or Vogue?, I don't remember). But I remember thinking, "that sounds ok, but it is probably just another Hollywood over the top knitting book". Kind of like Celebrity Scarves or the Hollywood Knits books (ok, yes I do own all 4 of those, but no one said I wasn't a little hypocritical here!). I really liked this book; it is cute and funny, and the patterns are interesting. Although, I have to second Nona's review and that I too wish some of these patterns were available as single patterns. I like the book, but there are several items that just don't interest me at all (that's never stopped me from buying a knitting book before, but I'm not feeling the "I must have this book vibe" from this one). I plan on knitting the Grownup Bonnet and maybe the Rowena Cardigan, but there isn't much else I'd actually knit.

But overall 2 good books to check out if you haven't already!

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