Faerie Knitting Has Arrived!

The imaginative, collaborative book, Faery Knitting 14 Tales of Love and Magic   by Alice Hoffman and Lisa Hoffman has finally arrived. Look how lovely it is!

Here, in steamy Savannah, leaves are falling from dogwoods, mornings are crisp, autumn tea is brewing, and the primal urge to bake something with cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg is reawakening. It’s the perfect time to travel into author Alice Hoffman’s inspired faerie tales.  It may be wise to steep some of her Courage Tea, because faery tales are not for the faint of heart. Deep, dark, snow-covered, forests await. But don’t be discouraged; clever, persistent, female heroines lead the way. When you’re ready, turn the page, and her cousin Lisa Hoffman’s beautiful knitting creations tempt us to dream.

To be a writer or a knitter, one has to be willing to take things apart and put them back together again.

— Alice Hoffman, Faerie Knitting

Here’s my post from the summer of 2017 about traveling to New York to attend a writing workshop with Alice and knit wear designer/teacher, Lisa Hoffman. Alice spoke about taking one’s writing and knitting apart and her insight on the process continues to sustain me as a writer. If something I’ve written doesn’t please me, I can cut and paste, re-work, even delete.  Faerie Knitting arrived as I completed the first draft of my forthcoming novel and cast off the final stitches of a cardigan. Soon I’ll pick up my novel and begin revising.

Since meeting the Hoffman’s, I knit every day. I’ve taught my daughter to knit, there are always three projects on needles around my house, and although yarn baskets seem to reproduce in the middle of the night, they’re not keeping up with my ever-burgeoning stash. But, tearing out rows of knitting frustrates me. So, the following words written by Lisa Hoffman encourage me:

There is sometimes a decrease leaning the wrong way in a lace pattern that I did not notice or an extra row in one glove so it’s just a smidge longer than the other. It is a little imbalanced, but I still appreciate what I have achieved.

— Lisa Hoffman, Faerie Knitting

Settle back, get cozy, and enjoy this enchanting book — they’ve spun straw into gold for us.