Beck performing at the Petra Haden Benefit at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles on 11/26/2000. Other performers were: Tenacious D and a makeshift combo the Go-Go's, X singer Exene Cervenka, Victoria Williams, a former Jayhawk Mark Olson and his band The Original Harmony Creek Dippers, Keith Morris (end of the Circle Jerks, now in Midget Handjob) Stephen Perkins, Abby Travis, the brother Josh Haden (of the group Spain), Nels Cline, Mother Superior, Solid Eye, Waco, sometime HadenMiss Murgatroid employees, Cal Tjader Memorial BBQ Band (with husband Danny Frankel and DJ Bonebrake), RadioBemba (featuring Ry Cooder's son Joachim) and Vincent Gallo's Band Bunny. Besides music, there is a puppet of Haden's sister Tanya and a magic show from Possum Dixon singer Rob Zabrecky will be.
This is a great book to flip through when you want a chuckle, or read cover-to-cover to relax and laugh with, whether you are a knitter yourself of have one in your life.
I never really thought about just how much of our own language we really do have - every knitter should have a copy of this for their loved ones.
I've met Ms. Temple at a couple of fiber events, and I think this book succeeds particularly because her personality and humor shine through on every page.
The Secret Language of Knitters Feature
ISBN13: 9780740768736
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
From the 25-year-old hipster to her 85-year-old grandmother, more than a third of the women in the United States knit. For the yarn-obsessed, Mary Beth Temple offers a glossary of knitting jargon and terminology in The Secret Language of Knitters with entries like: Mistakes. As in "The fact that one sleeve is five inches longer than the other is not a mistake, it is a design element." When the going gets tough, the tough get knitting. With a universal affinity for cashmere and an absolute abhorrence of moths, veteran and beginning knitters alike will be certain not to cast off this humorous lexicon compendium.