Links to the Library
Favorite Knitting Help Sites
- Knitting Help Videos
Knittinghelp.com has great videos to help you get started knitting or learn a new technique. Most videos are in both continental and english. - Ravelry
Although you have to become a member, the signup time may be worth it. Ravelry is a social network where people share patterns and resources with each other. Look up a pattern name or type and find photos, tips, and more from knitters like you. - Knitty Knitty is a quarterly, free, online magazine for knitters of all gauges. The free patterns range in difficulty from mellow to extraspicy.
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KNITTING
Learn what San Antonio Libraries have to offer knitters and those looking to get started.
Our favorite knitting books
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Call Number: 746.43204 Hoverson
Full of patterns and inspiration for quick last-minute knitted gifts. Some are quicker than others, but they all include an estimate on how long you'll need to finish.
Call Number: 746.43 Carron
This is this librarian's favorite hat book. Hats of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Hats are the perfect last-minute gift -- pick up this book for inspiration for yourself or a loved one.
Call Number: 746.43 Stanfield
Okay, so it's a knit and crochet cross-over. This is still a stunning book with (literally) a hundred ideas. If you're new to crochet, flowers are an easy way to start, and they can beautifully enhance any basic knit item.
Call Number: 746.43041 STANFIELD
Useful as decorations or cute little tokens, Stanfield includes patterns with step-by-step directions to creating your own butterflies, buzzing bees, metallic-thread dragonflies, miniature birds, and more.
Knitting Fiction
Hands getting cramped, but not finished dreaming about knitting?
Knitting Fiction is the cure.
Call Number: Fiction Macomber
A knitting circle learns the true meaning of friendship through this heart-warming 5-book series by Debbie Macomber.
Call Number: Pbrack Mystery Sefton
Members of a close-knit circle of friends band together to solve crimes in this 7-book series of knitting mysteries.
Call Number: Fiction Jacobs
It is rumored that this very popular budding series of books is being made into a major motion picture. Read the book first, and learn about the power of friendship in a Manhattan knitting shop.
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Central Knit-Out (& Crochet too!)
Once a year, the Alamo Rows Crochet Guild in partnership with San Antonio Public Libraries hosts a "Knit Out and Crochet Too" event at the Central Library.
Hundreds of knitters and crocheters join in this annual celebration of craft.
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