Woo hoo! My first proper book by me, rather than by Deadly Knitshade (that Deadly Knitshade always gets the kudos).
I buried myself in yarn and words at the end of last year to conjure up my very first knitting pattern book, Stitch London. You can read all about how it came about here, but now it’s time to celebrate.
Stitch London the book fluttered into bookshops across the UK, US and Canada last month and my publishers, David and Charles, thought it was about time we celebrated after all the hard work.
In case you missed it here’s a peek at the night of purled pigeons, little knitty cupcakes and Plarchie, the giant knitted squid, stealing the limelight as always.
You can see Momtaz’s lovely review of Stitch London here.Â
HUGE HUUUUUUUGE woolly hugs to everyone who came along and made the Stitch London book launch so fantabulous. It was a pleasure to party with you all.
And if you’re desperate to hear the book launch speeches then you’ll be pleased to know the lovely Sarah McIntyre (who also drew the lovely image of me at the top of this post) sneakily filmed it. Eek!
You can watch them here and pretend you were there. You can read Sarah’s fabulous post on the night over at her Jabberworks blog:
Thanks to Laura Babb and Gary Northfield for the pictures. Laura takes very lovely photos of weddings and all sorts. Check out her snaps and find out more here.
Massive thanks to Foyles at the Royal Festival Hall for hosting us too. Sorry if Plarchie ate some of your customers.
Sugar-coated thanks to Love Cakes London who made those amazing knitty cupcakes.
Woolly thanks to my pigeon-knitting pals Clare, Amy, Toria, Curlyminx (Deb) and my mum.
And hooray for David and Charles for organising my idea of book launch madness into some kind of order.
congratulations!
and here’s to many more successful book launches.
loving the octopus too đ
Thanks! More books would be fabulous. Especially if it means more cake and parties. đ
Plarchie has two more legs than an octopus, so he’s officially a squid. He says to tell you that he loves you too. Run for the hills!!!
Stitch London is awesome I got my copy way down here in Oz i love Cooey and Toerag and Fleabag which ive already conquered i hated with avengence dpn’s but i simply had to persevere cause i love them oh i love the umbrella fellas and the mug huggers shall i go on nope your book is wonderful
Even tho im no londoner [my ancester’s were but they got a free ride to Oz thanks to the gov… fancy stealing a little piece of cow to feed 9 kids and you get 14 years …] i shant go on my friends are fed up with my rambelling thanks for an awesome book
Hee hee! I’m so pleased you like it. It makes my day to know that after all my hard work someone is knitting! đ
I hate DPNs too, hence the instructions for using magic loop in the book. Magic loop is your friend.
I’d love to see some pics of your little knits if you fancy uploading them to the Planet Whodunnknit page.