I like big books and I cannot lie…
There’s something about a giant book that just feels deeply satisfying. It’s solid and substantial and reassuringly permanent. And this? Well this totally qualifies!
It’s Interweave’s new 100 Knits (as always, amazon links are affiliate links), and they were kind enough to send me a copy (I’ve got a sock pattern in there) plus an extra to send off to one of you.
The book brings 100 of Interweave’s most popular adult garment and accessory patterns together in one giant collection (seriously, it feels like a textbook…which makes my little book nerd heart happy). Inside you’ll find ten hats, six socks, two scarfs, twelve cowls, twelve shawls, twenty one cardigans, twenty six pullovers, and eleven tanks or tees. The accessories are generally unisex, and the sweaters seem to be almost exclusively shown on (and mostly sized for) women (I think one of the 58 garments is shown on a man), though many of them are likely to appeal to everyone.
With 100 patterns, you probably won’t fall hopelessly in love with every pattern in the book, but there are probably plenty that will catch your eye, especially if you knit a lot of women’s sweaters! You can browse the complete list of them on ravelry.
I’ve got a copy of the book to give away here (and another on instagram). If you think it might want to come live with you, just leave me a comment telling me about the biggest book on your bookshelf (how you interpret biggest is up to you…longest? tallest? most important? there’s no wrong answer). In a few days, I’ll pick a winner and get in touch to mail the book your way!
Comments left between now and the end of the day, eastern time, on Saturday, October 27 are entered to win. Open to adults with a US mailing address). There’s another giveaway over on instagram if you want to enter there as well!
Probably one of my 1000lb scrapbooks circa 2006. I was deep into scrapbooking before knitting and crochet!
This book looks amazing!! My tiniest book on my book shelf is The Pocket Pena Chodron. Big influence for such a tiny book. I’m a huge book nerd too & love the idea that this one feels like a textbook!!
I have a hardback knitting book from the 70’s that I bought at a book shop because I liked the handwritten inscription that clearly indicates someone understood and loved this Knitter I keep it because there is a full length wedding coat pattern I want to knit one day in it. And then dye black. Because I’d want it black and cannot knit a floor length coat with black yarn.
It’s pribabjy 12 inches tall, an inch thick and maybe 9 Inches wide.
I have a super BIG book on big data! My biggest knitting book is Vogue Knitting – The Ultimate Knitting Book (a recent purchase).
My largest book is the Step by Step cookbook, a nice compilation of recipes.
Well that’s a no-brainer. I don’t even have to go look at my shelves. It’s Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (unabridged). I used to hope that some day I might find a used Webser’s Second, but since I’ve retired from editing I’ve given up that dream.
I’m so excited about this…I entered on instagram as well! The biggest book on my bookshelf is probably going to sound a little odd, but it’s a poster that creates a picture from the text of a novel/novella, but it includes all of the text from the book. To continue to showcase my clear obsession with The Great Gatsby, the biggest (size wise) is a 24×36 poster book of the entire text of the novel shaped like Gatsby leaning against a car.
I have an old Time Life book “The Encyclopedia of Things That Never Were” that is over a foot long. I love it!
The biggest book I have is The Book of Exodus by Sam Fink. It’s technically a book, but I don’t know of any bookshelf it would fit on. Sam Fink painted a sky for every chapter of the book of Exodus and wrote for the Hebrew and English text on it. It really is lovely.
I have a lot of books but the biggest one in actual size is the Pete Souza “Obama, An Intimate Portrait” book that I found on my library’s sale table for $2! Deal of the day!
My biggest (thickest and heaviest) is a Bible Dictionary. I rarely use it because answers are so easily sourced online. Biggest impact would be my Bibles, and the sentimental favorites would be my family cookbooks which combine family history with heirloom recipes.
My biggest book is a giant book of poems written by my students! It’s actually a binder, and I add to it each year after our poetry unit. It’s hundreds of pages!
I love books! (especially knitting books…) The biggest book at my house right now is just a temporary visitor. It is a plat book for Perry County, Missouri from 1915. It isn’t very thick, but it is probably 20 to 25 inches tall and 12 to 14 inches wide. It will be heading off to a museum in a few days, but it has been fun to read through while it has been at my house. I even found the farm my great-grandfather owned on one of the maps. It also has a history of the world in the back. I found that to be very entertaining too!
I’ve knit several of the patterns in this new book and had misplaced my favourite cardigan pattern. I’m sooooo excited to see that it’s made it into the new book. I love Interweave and can’t wait to get a copy of this gorgeous book. I too am a book nerd who loves big books 🙂 My biggest book is an encyclopedia of animals that my uncle gave me when I was just a girl. That Christmas was amazing when I opened up the gift to find pictures and information on any animal I could think of. I still have it today and my daughter thinks it’s great too!
The biggest book on my shelf is Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Though I do have some fine art books that are taller, that one is the thickest.
My biggest book is La Varenne Pratique, a cookbook I bought over a dozen years ago. It’s a reference book more than a recipe book, and I taught myself to cook from it!
I sprained my ankle and nearly all my books are down a flight of stairs, so I’m going to take an educated guess and say my largest book is my complete works of Shakespeare. It’s massive ands cannot be picked up with one hand. The leafs are that super thin paper that you’re so likely to tear if you’re not careful. So I think it has a few thousand pages too!
My biggest is also a dictionary–The New Shorter Oxford (which is actually two huge books). I still use it to look up words and their origins, and also to press some fall leaves! Thanks for offering the give-away of the Interweave 100 Knits.
The biggest book on my bookshelf is a huge handmade scrapbook that I bought from an estate sale. It’s cover is made out of fabric over cardboard and it’s full of news paper clippings from the beginning days of WW2.
The biggest book I’ve got is probably The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook by Carol Ekarius and Deborah Robson. I have a wonderful fleece habit and love to buy fleece from mixed breed sheep (I own around 100lbs of fleece that I’m working through). This book helps me to identify the source of the more prominent features of the fleece so I can get an idea of how it will behave in spinning and garment construction.
The biggest book I have? It is only a book in the technical sense; but it is my deceased dad’s first stamp collector album from when he was 12 years old. My sister and I found his forgotten collection when we were clearing out the house after our mom died in 2015. It is one of the sentimental items I kept.
A binder from my grad student days – professor hadn’t had it published it yet, parts of it were handwritten, it’s about Chinese research methodologies. It’s about how to use Chinese research tools and Chinese libraries – there was a whole chapter about Chinese-language dictionaries and how to use them. I still use it!
My biggest book is a big book of folklore from all over the world about local magic spells. There’s a lot in there that involves getting absolutely hammered.
We have an old unabridged dictionary that’s BIG. My personal biggest book is the “red book” of tapestry — comprehensive French tapestry that has its own box (red).
My family’s OED (the version that comes in two volumes, with a magnifying glass included in the slipcase) lives with my parents, so I guess that doesn’t count for me anymore. But I do have a five-volume-plus-kitchen-manual set of Modernist Cuisine, which I absolutely adore!