Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously Review

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Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously ReviewI was so looking forward to this which makes my disappointment that much more painful.
Martini starts out with a bang. The history of the legal bits on Starmore are interesting - However if you want the real scoop in more riveting detail check out the girlfromauntie[...] blog. Martini describes herself as knitter ready to move beyond intermediate to advanced projects and instantly identifiable to a lot of us. She blows this by chapter 4 and lost us all completely by chapter 7 when she hits the sheep & wool festival. How?
First of all, Martini is an English/Creative writing professor first and a knitter in the very least/last. In the forefront she is primarily seeking to get published. She has chosen her topic: a Starmore, Mary Tudor sweater and proceeds to dissect, analyze and deconstruct Alice Starmore until she ultimately declares the sweater itself "easier than it looks" and Starmore is regarded in a rather insultingly dismissive attitude. When it is apparent that the sweater will not entirely be a Starmore due to a few yarn switches Martini than loses steam and lobs off in a different direction. Traveling all over the South to North of the Eastern U.S. Martini ingratiates herself to every big name Knitting Blog-stars beginning with Ann Shayne and Kay Gardiner (the Masondixon knitters[...]) to Canada's Amy R. Singer ( knitty [...]) to the Knit-blog Queen herself, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (yarnharlot.ca/blog), with a slew of knitters in between.
Martini uses this time spent with other knitters to mostly discuss why people (specifically women, she's a feminist after all.) knit. Despite the responses collected, I felt that she was not only missing the point but merely using the words of The Greats as filler for her own book. When more than half of the content of your book relies on the insights of others, well that is NOT good writing. Worse, Martini is so self-congratulatory on her time spent in the presence of these women she begins to assume that she is as great as they are ( short answer: no.) with the exception of the Canadians in whose presence she feels an uninvited need to be apologetic for being American. When Martini does employ her own verbal skills there is no true wit or individualism, in fact her tone and use of slang was most likely lifted from her much younger & possibly hipper students. I found it remarkable that she was so tone-deaf in the literary sense that she clearly felt that the status of being a writing instructor must automatically make her a 'good' writer. *ugh*
By the end Martini's constant name-dropping and preening will inspire revenge fantasies with Ms. Starmore standing triumphantly over a smoldering pile of yarn, sneering to a quavering Martini: "THAT is NOT MY SWEATER."
I will give this 2 stars for being a passable tour-guide of sorts, to better knitters, better writers, etc. However Martini needs to take a reality check and learn to drive with her ego in the backseat, until then she is a moderate turkey at best.Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously Overview

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