Book Review

Fiber Femmes Book Review

Big Girl Knits

Article by Sandra Bennett

Big Girl Knits

by Jillian Moreno and Amy R. Singer

Potter Craft, publisher

Jillian Moreno (former marketing director with Interweave Press) and Amy R.Singer (www.knitty.com editor) have co-authored a book that offers stylish, attractive designer knitwear patterns aimed at the majority of (N. American) women...those who are size 16+. Big Girl Knits shows how to take body measurements and how to calculate and use those measurements to adjust your knitting for your own body. They look at the 3 B's, Boobs, Belly and Butt, and give a workable system to design personal knitwear that not only looks attractive...it FITS.

Big Girl Knits has taken all the angst out of knitting for those who are

math challenged. Really, it's true! For those who prefer to use their little

gray cells and think about color, yarn, pattern, needles this book is a

blessing. After reading, it's plug and play and you're on your way to

beautiful knitwear that looks like it was hand-crafted for YOU...because it

was handcrafted for you BY you. OMIGOSH, how revolutionary!

From the book, "If you learn only one thing from this book, this is it: Big Girl Knits should use yarn four stitches to the inch or finer, period. Do

not put bulky, super-chunky-monkey garment son your Big Girl body. Thick yarn doesn't add inches...it adds feet..."

OUCH! Okay, so most Big Girls already know that but did you know there are ***pants*** designed for Big Girls? How about ***skirts***?

And they Look Great...not just good, GREAT.

Now Ms Moreno and Ms Singer have to come up with a Big Girl Crochets just to keep Fiber Femmes jealously levels at a minimum.

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Sandra is Shepherdess and Farmer at Thistle Cove Farm in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains of southwest VA. She raises and breeds rare, hypoallergenic American Curly horses, Shetland, Romney, Merino and cross bred sheep. Appalachian Wool Works where Happy Sheep Make Beautiful Wool is Thistle Cove Farm's own line of specialty blended yarns and handcrafted woolens.

Sandra teaches in the areas of Agri-Tourism, -Education, -Tainment, -Culture and Rural Tourism Development. Her most popular workshops include How To Increase Farm Income and helps others increase farm income using non-traditional methods. For more information about farm products or her teaching schedule, please contact her at Thistle Cove Farm or thistlecovefarm.gmail or 276-988-4121. Sandra blogs at Thistle Cove Farm and is co-editor of Fiber Femmes.