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A review by a_h_haga
Faerie Knitting: 14 Tales of Love and Magic by Alice Hoffman, Lisa Hoffman
2.0
I discovered Alice Hoffman in 2020, and I have been a knitter for most of my life, and so I thought that this book would be just right for me. I loved the idea of knitting something inspired by fairytales, and I thought the Hoffman-ladies must make a great creative team!
Unfortunately, that was not my experience of this book. The cover is beautiful, and there are some nice patterns in this book, but nothing amazing. All the patterns were rather pedestrian, if you ask me, and some even seemed un-finished or rushed. Like the hood, that was just a random hood but nothing more. I think if you combine some of the patterns, they might make a good, wearable piece, but alone, most of them seemed… well, as I said, unfinished.
Then there were the stories. They were rather repetitive and uninspiring, as well, not to mention they felt rushed and some of them didn’t make any sense at all. And some were the same stories but with new elements. Or the same elements but just a new setting/thing to knit.
I was left rather uninspired by the whole book, unfortunately. There were so many possibilities for them to make something amazing, and instead it was just filled with boring things.
The only reason I’m not giving this book a 1/5 star rating is because some of the patterns were ok. I made the Lilac Tree Scarf for my bonus-mother as a Solstice gift, and am considering making it for a lot of other family-members for next Solstice. Part of that is that it is very simple, even if it looks pretty, which is the general mood of this whole book, to be honest!
Unfortunately, that was not my experience of this book. The cover is beautiful, and there are some nice patterns in this book, but nothing amazing. All the patterns were rather pedestrian, if you ask me, and some even seemed un-finished or rushed. Like the hood, that was just a random hood but nothing more. I think if you combine some of the patterns, they might make a good, wearable piece, but alone, most of them seemed… well, as I said, unfinished.
Then there were the stories. They were rather repetitive and uninspiring, as well, not to mention they felt rushed and some of them didn’t make any sense at all. And some were the same stories but with new elements. Or the same elements but just a new setting/thing to knit.
I was left rather uninspired by the whole book, unfortunately. There were so many possibilities for them to make something amazing, and instead it was just filled with boring things.
The only reason I’m not giving this book a 1/5 star rating is because some of the patterns were ok. I made the Lilac Tree Scarf for my bonus-mother as a Solstice gift, and am considering making it for a lot of other family-members for next Solstice. Part of that is that it is very simple, even if it looks pretty, which is the general mood of this whole book, to be honest!