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Best knitting books to buy for beginners or advanced knitters

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Knitting is perhaps one of the most underratedly difficult hobbies of all time. Unlike learning how to master the art of oil painting, or exploring how to develop photographic film from scratch, the dexterous and detail-orientated skill is made to seem falsely simple due to its repetitive and often speedy nature.

What’s more, the stereotypical knitter is usually considered to be a grandmother of sorts. We, for one, are frankly dumbfounded by the fact that grannies are only considered capable of mastering ‘easy’ hobbies. A skill made to look simple by years of experience and a very

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