![]() ![]() Lately I read downloaded books on my computer screen as I knit. Walker and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. * 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 Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns (9780684169385) 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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