Victorian Lace Today

My one word review:

SQUEAL!!!!

More in-depth:

This is one of the most beautiful knitting books I own. As a fan of vintage knitting, I've been interested in this book for a while, and when Ima checked it out of the library I riffled through it and decided I had to have it.

It arrived today from Amazon and I am thrilled to pieces. I ordered it at the same time as the last Harry Potter, and truthfully this is the one I was looking forward to.

Anyone who's ever fiddled about with antique knitting patterns knows they are vague at best and riddled with errors at worst. So getting a book like this, with all the mistakes corrected and the vagaries sharpened and the materials translated into modern language--it's invaluable.

In these covers you'll find simple items and truly expert items, in a variety of weights and sizes from little fichus to enveloping, dainty, spectacular shawls. I mean, SPECTACULAR.

I have never been much of a lace knitter. But as I get older and my mad knitting skillz mature along with the rest of me, I find myself drawn more and more to lace. I'm currently on the last few feet (sigh) of a feather-and-fan oddments shawl, and I want my next project to be lace. And it will be a project from this book. Possibly modest, possibly spectacular. We'll see.

If you're at all interested in lace knitting or vintage knitting or the Victorian look or in beautiful books, get "Victorian Lace Today."