AlterKnits: Imaginative Projects and Creativity Exercises

PieceWork recommends a needlework book of interest:
AlterKnits: Imaginative Projects and Creativity Exercises by Leigh Radford
If you want to expand your knitting horizon, get this book. Yes, there are projects and instructions, but there is so much more: thoughtful and thought-provoking insights into both knitting and creativity, conventional and unconventional knitting (with sterling silver wire, for example), and abundant encouragement from the author.
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2005. Hardbound, 128 pages, $24.95. ISBN 1-58479-455-0.
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