Naughty Needles: Sexy, Saucy Knits for the Bedroom and Beyond (Potter Craft) [Paperback]

Nikol Lohr (Author)

Book Description

Series: Potter Craft | Publication Date: December 19, 2006

Fulfill your sex kitten fantasies and your crafting jones at the same time: knit naughty! Naughty Needles is a fun and feisty knitting adventure filled with designs that can go from bedroom to costume party and back again. Play it sweet in a Fembot babydoll nightie or sex it up in Hootchie Kootchie pasties. When you’re feeling frisky, knit up the Baby Blue-Ball Gag or play dress-up in the naughty nurse cap or the felted Red Riding Hood cape. New and experienced knitters alike will find inventive and easy-to-follow patterns. And since the garments aren’t exactly full-coverage, they don’t take much time to complete.

With inspiration from retro icons like surfer Gidget, Mrs. Robinson, and cavegirl Raquel Welch, Nikol Lohr pushes the boundaries of the traditional “wifely” crafts into the age of Sex and the City and cuddle parties. Part how-to guide, part peep show, Naughty Needles is a brash, tongue-in-cheek take on an age-old art. From the demure to the bizarre, with a splash of fetish thrown in, these are the projects that will make you smile–and make your partner growwwwl.

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About the Author

Nikol Lohr is the thirty-something creator of DisgruntledHousewife.com and the brand-new ThriftyKnitter.com, as well as the co-queenie of cooking site OutOfTheFryingPan.com and chick site SmileAndActNice.com. She and her websites have rated mention in numerous publications, including Wired, Playboy, The Guardian, Glamour, the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, the Sydney Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, Paper, and Fortune. As a champion of the wifely arts, Lohr can cook, sew, crochet, knit, needlepoint, embroider, decoupage, print, grow things, fix things, and generally craft her ass off. A longtime resident of Austin, Texas, Lohr recently moved to rural Kansas, where she is rehabilitating four old school buildings into a secluded arts retreat.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Potter Craft (December 19, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307337375
• ISBN-13: 978-0307337375
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.4 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #420,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nikol Lohr lives & works at The Harveyville Project, a creative workshop and retreat housed in a pair of former school buildings in rural Kansas. The Harveyville Project hosts Yarn School, Felt School & Mitten School, amongst other intensive workshops. Before packing up her life and moving to the country, Nikol made her home in Austin, Texas and created the now-retired-but-once-smallishly-famous vanity site Disgruntled Housewife. She lives with her partner, tattoo artist & musician Ron Miller, a couple cats & a dog, plus a flock of laying hens & a mixed (Merino, Shetland & Romney) spinners' flock known collectively as Cupcake Ranch.

Nikol is cupcake on ravelry, QueenieVonSugarpants on flickr, and thriftyknitter on twitter.

She's currently working on a new knitting book for Wiley, due out next fall.

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars So close!, February 21, 2007

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Corinne R. Wooster "craftista" (Fort Hood, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Naughty Needles: Sexy, Saucy Knits for the Bedroom and Beyond (Potter Craft) (Paperback)

I just received this book in the mail, and I am very excited to try out several of the patterns. As several reviewers have stated, this isn't your mother's knitting, more of a Bettie Page + Raquel Welch debauched craftnanza. Although assuming that the reader knows the basics of knitting, the patterns seem simple enough for an adventurous beginner (and this book is certainly aimed at the adventurous), while remaining fun and interesting enough for a more intermediate level stitcher.

The concern I have is the lack of finished dimensions for any of the projects outside of the painfully vague "Women's S/M/L". If the patterns were for bulky sweaters this could be overlooked, but the body hugging styles require a good fit, and without finished dimensions choosing the appropriate size requires a certain amount of math. This book could have gotten five stars if the pattern writers had saved me the effort of figuring out what "Medium" actually means!

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The title says it alll..., February 5, 2007

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Armchair Interviews (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Naughty Needles: Sexy, Saucy Knits for the Bedroom and Beyond (Potter Craft) (Paperback)

The past few years have seen knitting rapidly expand beyond a granny craft. With the explosion of knitting blogs, knitting has come out of the closet with a variety of designers creating racy lingerie and adult garments. Nikol Lohr's recently published book of knitting patterns Naughty Needles: Sexy, Saucy Knits for the Bedroom and Beyond, invites knitters to "knit naughty" and explore their inner sex kitten.

Channeling classic 1940's Fredericks of Hollywood, Lohr's patterns can be knit in playful and vampy versions. Those aiming for the "Austin Powers'" Fembot look can knit their nighties in feminine pink while the bad girls can go for racy black. Bikinis come in several dress-up styles ranging from "Gidget" to B-movie cave girls, and the various patterns aim to provide something for all skill levels.

The later half of Naughty Needles contains patterns for adult dress-up and games. As Lohr states, her Baby Blue Ball Gag "is a dandy stash-buster and a wonderful short-row primer." Her knitted straitjacket can be knit in a compos mentis version for those who are no longer a danger to others or themselves.

Note: There is partial nudity and adult activity shown in some of the photos, as well as some "explicit" illustrations. Knitters may wish to keep this stashed safely out of reach of young children.

Visit the official Naughty Needles website for some free patterns and wonderful wallpaper for your computer.

Armchair Interviews says: Hmmmm, you may never again look at knitting needles the same.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Will have you in Stiches!, January 30, 2007

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D. Matlack "Guidedog" (in Wild Wyoming) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Naughty Needles: Sexy, Saucy Knits for the Bedroom and Beyond (Potter Craft) (Paperback)

This book is hilarious! It's always fun to see what kind of knitting patterns are out there and who is creating what and these are legit knit patterns, albeit very specialized ones (strait-jacket, anyone?) I don't know if I will actually make any of these, but I will treasure this for it's entertainment value and as a unique addition to my knitting library.

I especially got a kick out of the models, it appears that Ms. Lohr relied on extensive use of her knitting circle friends and if I am not mistaken it is Ms. Stafford, the Domiknitrix herself who is wielding the knit-whip on page 102. A nice touch and a nice use of your friends!

A fun book and highly recomended for the unconventional knitter. [...]