Tuesday,
April 4 at 6:00 pm
Ann
Shayne and Kay Gardiner
Mason-Dixon
Knitting:
The Curious Knitters’ Guide
Talk• Q&A • Signing
What began as a lark by two women who had never met in person evolved into an online community that now stretches from England to Hong Kong to Australia. With more than 15,000 readers a month, New Yorker and former attorney Kay Gardiner and Tennessean and former book editor Ann Shayne discovered a new online world. In fact, after two years of friendship and a successful blog, Ann and Kay committed to writing their first book, Mason-Dixon Knitting, without ever having met in person. Before long, they discovered that thousands of readers shared their fixation, their knitting victories and defeats, and their life stories.
Mason-Dixon Knitting is at once a collection of more than 30 patterns, a how-to manual, and a crazy quilt of hilarious narratives. Drawing creative inspiration from their surroundings, Kay and Ann present colorful blankets, sassy nightgowns, delicate curtains, and much more—revealing that knitting can weave its way into just about every aspect of life.
“Mason-Dixon
Knitting is a song
about the sheer fun of knitting and conveys the camaraderie of
the online knitting community. The text is peppered with humor
and spiced with projects that are accessible to beginners and
urge knitters at any level to experiment."
—
Debbie New, author of Unexpected Knitting
“To read Mason-Dixon Knitting is to find yourself surrounded by
a world of smiles; it is to remember what's really important
in this world…and to discover some amazingly good, exciting
knitting!”
— Nancy Parsons, Knitters’ Bookshelf
Ann
Shayne is an editor by trade. She is a graduate of Davidson College
and the Radcliffe Publishing Course. She worked in New
York in book publishing, then returned to her home town of Nashville
where she edited BookPage..
Kay Gardiner has a law degree from Columbia Law School and spent many years as a federal court trial lawyer. Prior to 2001, when she left the legal profession to spend more time with her two young children, Kay had served as an assistant United States attorney in Manhattan for thirteen years.