The Art of Shetland Lace

I have finally acquired this book first published in 1981. During this period Sarah Don wrote several books on knitting and needlepoint which I bought at the time, but not this one, as, believe it or not, I was not interested in knitting lace! Of course now it's out of print I have had to pay a premium for it, but at least I have a fine copy.

As befits the time, photos are black and white and patterns are written not charted. The latter suits me as I still prefer written to charted instructions. This is a slim volume and the author states that there is scope for a much larger tome which has been written by Sharon Miller ( "Heirloom Knitting" ). If you don't have Sharon's book I urge you to get it. It's well worth the high cover price. She has also written a book on hap shawls which has very interesting historical detail as well as patterns.

I could happily spend all my time knitting and reading about knitting.