Not Your Mama's Knitting

This book presents less hand-holding and more hip projects.

Today's knitters spend over $400 million a year. Knitters are eager for cool new ideas and projects. This book gets them clicking on great scarves, sweaters, vests and tanks, purses, home decor items, baby things, knitwear for pets, and more.

New knitters will find everything from saucy shrugs to sexy tanks and can use the dozens of variation ideas to make the projects truly their own!

Heather Dixon (New York, NY) taught herself to knit at the age of six and never looked back.

She studied knitwear design in Nottingham, England, worked as a designer in Italy, and then became the designer for Relais Knitwear in New York.