Can you believe that the KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook is ten years old this month?
This is your last chance to buy it. I’m celebrating with a 10% discount across all KNITSONIK titles in my online shop which should be automatically applied.
A decade ago I was between Shetland where I’d been teaching at Shetland Wool Week and Reading, where 2,000 copies of the freshly-printed KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook were due to be delivered to our house. Here are me and Nic at Williams Press in Maidenhead where the first print run was printed.
I was set to post out 447 copies to my Kickstarter backers AKA KNITSONIK COMRADES; hopefully sell the remainder of my stock; pay myself for a year of work; and move onto my next project.
I was unprepared for the amazing response to my book. By early 2015, the first print run had completely sold out and I was onto print run #2. I reprinted in 2016 and again in 2018. There are now almost 8,000 copies of The Sourcebook in the world – all packaged and sent by me.
I’m now down to the last few boxes with no plans to reprint. This winter is your last chance to own a copy of the KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook; when they’re gone they’re GONE.
I wrote this book because I wanted a concrete set of steps for translating things I saw in daily life into stranded colourwork. Because I wanted to give space to the messy creative process and to celebrating the ordinary in knitting. Your response reveals that you wanted these things, too.
The KNITSONIK Stranded Colourwork Sourcebook is the only book that shows you the whole imperfect process of turning weeds, factories, biscuit tins and battered old audio recorders into stranded colourwork; the only one that shows you how to knit fruitcake.
Many people have written to say this book has changed how you look at your knitting and also how you see the world. Writing for the Guardian Newspaper, author Sarah Moss described it as “a sermon against despair as well as a book about knitting”.
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So happy I stumbled into your world and nabbed my copies of these before they were GONE!
It will take a wee while for them to wing to me, here in Australia…
I await them with excitement
Thank you
Cheers
Karin
HI Felix,
I purchased the Sourcebook as well as the Playbook and Colouring Companion earlier this year. Other knitting projects have taken over my calendar till year end. Reading and experimenting with the books will be part of my 2025 knitting plans. Can’t wait! Still having fun getting through the Bullet Journaling course and using my bullet journal every day.
One of the most joyful books in my library, a woolsome carrot that tempts and inspires. Each page encourages, and helps open my eyes and getting me to look anew at colours around where I live, whether that’s a drift of leaves at the side of a pavement, lichen on a stone wall near a local watermill, or the little vintage pin tin from Nanny’s workbasket. Thank you always Felix for the colour exuberance you’ve gifted and shared with us all through this smile inducing book.
Aw, thank you so much for your very kind words, I appreciate you! XxX