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Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kay Gardiner, Ann Meador Shayne
Publisher: Potter Craft
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $18.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 783
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0307381706
Dewey Decimal Number: 746
EAN: 9780307381705
ASIN: 0307381706
Publication Date: September 16, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Dear Fellow Knitter,
Welcome! Come on in. Have a seat—we’ve been waiting for you.
Ever since our first book, Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters’ Guide, we’ve been exploring techniques and ideas that we once thought were the sort of thing that only brilliant knitters could do.
Our conclusion: We are all brilliant knitters!
None of this is rocket science! If you can knit a garter stitch scarf, you’ve figured out the hard part. Now it’s time for the fun to start. You hold in your hands the result of our odyssey. It’s a new collection of 30 delicious projects that we hope will take you on your own knitting adventures.
Decorating Yourself: A collection of beautiful things to make for your most demanding (and forgiving) client.
The Fairest Isle of All: A simple, quick introduction to a sort of knitting you may not have considered, with surprising, modern projects.
Covering the Small Human: Pint-sized knits, including baby hats, dreamy dresses, and a cool pullover for the ultimate challenge: the Older Child.
Occasional Knitting: Projects for the special occasions in life—holidays, housewarmings, picnics.
The Sophisticated Kitchen: New uses for one of our favorite yarns: kitchen cotton.
We have filled this book with luscious photographs, stories, tips, rules, and hints. You’ll read how we arrived at these projects and the discoveries we have made along the way, and you will discover shocking things about us.
At all times, we have kept in mind Mason-Dixon Knitting Rule Number 1 : Knitting is spoze to be fun. Fasten your seatbelt—it’s going to be a fabulous ride!
Love,
Kay and Ann
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 I Don't Even Knit! October 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't even knit but I read this book cover to cover! It is cleverly written and beautifully photographed. I intend on giving it as Christmas gifts to the knitters in my life.
 Loved book 1, returned book 2 October 3, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I really loved the first Mason Dixon knitting book- I read every page and have plans to complete many of the projects.
I purchased the second book from Amazon and sent it back the next day. There is only one pattern I would knit- the dishcloth.
I live in Miami- sweaters, scarfs and socks are out and I would never knit pants for a toddler! I found most of the projects bordered on "weird knitting". The kind made my husband cringe when I told him I was learning to knit.
I would have loved to have read the book cover to cover they are such clever, funny women and their commentary is great.
If you are a practical knitter- check this book out at the library before you purchase it.
Great second effort..... September 29, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you have not seen the first Mason Dixon book, you are missing out on a treat. As fun to read as the projects are fun to make. I just got this and found almost every project enticing, but will start first with the Fair Isle afghan inspired by a wallpaper in England. Her is blue and red, while mine will be chocolate brown and red.....
These ladies to do not take themselves too seriously except about knitting. However, for a rare treat, read the fine print and you will find yourself giggling over their thoughts. The projects and directions are great as well. Buy and enjoy both their books!
Just a little south of perfect September 29, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
How do you follow up a fascinating, outside-the-lines tome like the first Mason-Dixon book? (A book, which, by the way, got me knitting again after a 10-year case of Fear Of Huge Hats.)
Ironically, Kay and Ann are much more in-the-lines this time, compared to other knitting books out there. A lot more garments (most for grown-up-ladies), a lot less garter stitch. Holiday/religious accessories, like stockings and kippot, make an appearance. They're still working the rugs like maniacs, and although there aren't any slam-dunk start-a-craze patterns like the original Baby Kimono, there is much to enjoy in these pages.
Where they still stand head-and-shoulders above the fray is in the writing. Mini- (and not-so-mini-) essays on the creative process, the power of knitting to soothe, craze, and otherwise preoccupy fill the pages. Try new things, don't be afraid, buy good yarn, and, above all, enjoy what you do. That message hasn't changed. Their good humor, small egos, and sensible attitudes reign supreme.
If you're a fan of the blog and/or book 1, you will be satisfied with this book. You will probably knit a few projects from it, and you'll certainly laugh out loud while you read. Will you love it as much as book 1? Depends on how much you like garter stitch.
A book to hug and hold, to read and knit from . . . September 21, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I really wondered if Ann and Kay could write another book as satisfying and engaging as their first, which spent as much time in my lap as a favorite grandchild. So I am both delighted and a bit astonished to find that this new book is at least equal to, and perhaps even much better than the first!
Ann and Kay have a way of making you feel like you're in your pajamas sitting next to them in their pajamas on the third floor of a creaky white-washed house by the seashore knitting in the wee hours after all the boring people have gone to bed, and in between sips of cocoa, you're laughing, learning, and happy as a child. They weave charm, humor, and comaraderie with wisdom and technical insights like no one else.
There are some designs in this lovely book that I predict will become legendary: The Mystery Sweater, which in itself is a stunning design, given in sizes from small to extra large, which I think would flatter anyone. The knitter chooses words to write around the bodice using chain stitch, for an effect that has literary value, yes, but which is also absolutely enticing to the eye, since the words are worked in the same color as the background, making them subtle and mysteriously decorative, yet fully readable. I'll bet this sweater will be worked in many different languages, by mathematicians writing favorite formulas, on and on - I can't wait to check it on Ravelry in about a year to see the thousands of variations. I wish I had time right now to start one myself.
There's a new dishcloth pattern which also made me want to stop everything and knit dishcloths . . .
And a great pair of socks - "Errant Socks" - which invite the reader to either follow the cable charts or use them as a springboard and let those cable branches dance with the spontaneity of jungle vines - all supported by clear instructions which give a knitter with no cable experience such clear understanding and practical experience that cable liberation becomes possible. This pattern is a great example of how Ann and Kay succeed in carrying new knitters to new horizons, building confidence and trust and then declaring - "Now look what you can do!"
This is a book to be read, and reread, and knit from again and again. Ann and Kay are providing today's knitters with incredible support, inspiration, instruction, and happiness, and I am grateful to them for nourishing our enormous population of knitters to harness their joy and intelligence.
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