I adore knitting/craft/cooking books and magazines, and I have plenty, so I thought I would start re

I adore knitting/craft/cooking books and magazines, and I have plenty, so I thought I would start reviewing them now and again.  Here is the first one: Doomsday Knits I was a Kickstarter backer for this book, because the premise made me happy.  Amongst several of my groups of nerdy friends, it is widely believed that my crafty arts will be my ticket into a position of honor and value in any post apocalyptic society.  I can knit, spin, crochet and weave if I have to, garden, bake, can, etc.  I’m also good with circuits and machinery.  So this seemed like a book written for me. I have many projects from this book that I want to make:  Apocketmitts are first on my list, but I love Baby’s First Principles because it is a baby blanket with skulls; I want to make Circuit for me too with some conductive thread for touch screens; Ditch the Tech looks super comfy; Fennec just looks cool and would be awesome for my sister-in-law; I want 10 of Fatigued in different colors; Fission looks fun and would make a great gift; the Grom-mitts are way bad-ass; I would wear Ozone all the time; I want 20 Technologicas in different colors; who wouldn’t want a Utility Corset or five? Wayfarer is so pretty; and Thrumviator would be great for all of our cold-weather-living family. The writing in this book is fantastic.  There are great doomsday themed extras and the patterns are arranged by the type of apocalypse. :-D  This is definitely my kind of book. The only negative I have would be that some of the suggested yarns are quite pricey.  Now, I’ve at least felt most of the yarns, even if I haven’t knit with all of them, and damn are they nice yarns.  That being said, unless I win the lottery soon, I’ll have to make some yarn substitutions to make all of the patterns I want to knit from this book.  I will definitely be stash shopping first to see if I have things that will work.  If an apocalypse does come, I will be raiding yarn shops first to get all of the yarns for the projects in this book. -- source link

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