Stitch 'N Bitch Page-A-Day Calendar 2008 (Page-A-Day Calendars) (Calendar)

~ Debbie Stoller (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The Stitch 'n Bitch Calendar is back with a lively year of knitting, wit, and attitude from "knitting superstar" Debbie Stoller, author of the bestselling Stitch ’n Bitch series. In full color, here's a wealth of material for chicks with sticks: helpful tips, cool techniques, and ingenious fixes. Yarns of the week, silk to alpaca to linen to mohair. Plus quotes, knit wit, encouragement, trivia— did you know that in the Peruvian Andes, knitting is traditionally a men's craft?— and, of course, lots of hip, edgy patterns, from snug scarves to bikinis to MP - player cozies.

About the Author

Debbie Stoller is the bestselling author of the Stitch'n Bitch series of knitting books and calendars. She comes from a long line of Dutch knitters, has a Ph.D. from Yale in the psychology of women, and is the editor-in-chief of Bust magazine. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Product Details

• Calendar: 320 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; Pag edition (June 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761145737
• ISBN-13: 978-0761145738
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #599,173 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing--not enough patterns, January 9, 2008

By	ReadNReVu - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

I enjoy the Knitting Pattern-a-Day calendars, even though if you're online any amount of time perusing knitting websites you've probably seen many of the often-freebie patterns before (but it is always nice to have them printed in a smaller format), so I took a chance on this calendar, since it happened to be 75% off retail price at the mall.

Boy, was I disappointed! No index to the few patterns (approximately 1 per week, and quite a few of those were socks) and the tips, while useful, had cute titles that rendered them annoying as far as ease of use. As far as the descriptions of the often novelty yarns, well, that's nice advertising for the yarn seller, but we all know how fast these yarns come and go, and good patterns need to be useful beyond the current novelty yarn. As far as writing about other S 'n B groups, this was a repetitive waste of space.

Bottom line, only about a third of this calendar is useful, and that's if you include all of the patterns (which may or may not be to your liking) and the tips. The rest of this calendar is very expensive scratch paper.

The Knitting Pattern-a-Day calendars are a much better value for money. Many, many more patterns (though several go over two days) with greater variety, an index to the patterns so you can find them again, cards with a monthly calendar below so that you can list important dates and/or projects for that month, and the box is constructed better.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stitch'N Bitch back for another good year!, December 12, 2007

By	KnitTuck (SD, USA) - See all my reviews

The 2008 calendar has a plethora of information similar to 2007, however there has been a few changes made such as:
*Wednesday is now SNB Profiles
*Thursday is now School Day, History and Facts
*Weekends are now miscellaneas (2007 was a quote on the weekend)
Another new addition is the Sock of the month pattern. The calendar holder is sturdier and rather than tearing off the page, it can be placed to the back of calendar. My only complaint is that web sightings no longer has a day. If you enjoyed 2007, than this is a must-have for you!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great resource, October 5, 2007

By	A reader (Litchfield Co., CT) - See all my reviews

I received this desk calendar as an early Christmas gift yesterday. I have only looked through May and already love it!

It's packed with all sorts of information about yarns and the creatures who grow them. Knitting hints and techniques and of course, patterns. The pages are loose so it's easy to slip a page into a knitting bag.

A great thing to give and/or receive for a knitter of any experience. I've been knitting for 44 years and have learned things I didn't know!