Saltwater Mittens: More Than 20 Heritage Designs to Knit, by Christine Legrow and Shirley Scott (Boulder Books, 2018, $29.95, 192pp PB) Review by Skye Anderson
First in a series of four lovely and entertaining knitting/touristy wish books, Saltwater Mittens has its origins in Newfoundland, Canada: a lovely collection of colors, photos, history and geography, traditional knitting patterns and even literary extracts. A book you will use but also will simply open and page through, to gaze upon the cliffs as well as the zigzag mittens and caps (instructions are also included).
Colors you never thought would go together, do. Stripes and diamonds, scallops and arrows and squares and wrist ribbing but always in contrasting colors. And, as with the other three books, Saltwater Mittens can stand alone. But, trust me, like potato chips, once you get one of the four, you will want the others.
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We love some of the titles in the bibliography: Don't Have Your Baby in the Dory, Fox & Geese & Fences, Flying Geese and Partridge Feet.
Samples of the Writing
"I was late in life learning to knit. I was eight. . . . " (p 13) and "In days gone by, knitters were not unduly worried about the size of the finished product. In large families, any garment was likely to fit some family member." (p 27)
Each of the four books has the same creative levels of difficulty labels (along with abbreviations and definitions): "Easy Does It" for beginning knitters, "Tangly" for intermediate skill levels and "Over the Wharf" for the advanced knitter.
1. Saltwater Mittens: More Than 20 Heritage Designs to Knit
2. Saltwater Classics: Caps, Vamps and Mittens from the Island of Newfoundland
3. Saltwater Gifts from the Island of Newfoundland: More than 25 Fashion and Home Styles to Knit
4. Saltwater Socks, Caps, Mittens and More
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