Occasionally books are mentioned during our meetings, or Guild members email in with book recommendations they think the rest of the group will enjoy. If you have a book to recommend to our group, you may email it here for inclusion in future newsletters and to add onto our list below.


The Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter
 by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen

Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes

Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World by Clara Parkes

Unravelling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Ornstein

A Life in Stitches: Knitting My Way Through Love, Loss, and Laughter by Rachael Herron

Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting edited by Ann Hood

Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing About Knitting edited by Ann Hood

Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

People Knitting: A Century of Photographs by Barbara Levine

Kaffe Fassett In The Studio: Behind the Scenes with a Master Colorist by Kaffe Fassett

The Knitting Circle: A Novel by Ann Hood

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Madame Defarge's knitting)

A Crochet Mystery series by Betty Hechtman (#1: Hooking for Trouble)

A Knitting Mystery series by Maggie Sefton (#1: Knit One, Kill Two)

A Quilting Mystery series by Mary Marks (#1: Forget Me Knot)

A Weaving Mystery series by Carol Ann Martin (#1: Looming Murder)

The Seaside Knitters mystery series by Sally Goldenbaum (#1: A Finely Knit Murder)

At Knit’s End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

It Itches: A stash of knitting cartoons by Franklin Habit

The Mitten String by Jennifer Rosner (picture book)

The Mystery of the Missing Red Mitten by Steven Kellog (picture book)

101 Designer One Skein Wonders by Judith Durant

A History of Hand Knitting by Richard Rutt 

Casting Off by Nicole R. Dickson (fiction) 

Knitting America by Susan M. Strawn 

Knitting Around the World by Lela Nargi

Knitting in the Old Way by Priscilla Gibson-Roberts 

No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting by Anne L. MacDonald 

Seaside Knitters Series (4 books) by Sally Goldenbaum (fiction) 

SweaterQuest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously by Adrienne Martini

Trafficking in Sheep by Anne Priest 

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