Sensational Sprial Binding
Have I sung the praises of spiral binding lately? I “heart” spiral binding - especially on tightly bound, really good sock knitting blooks. There are a couple of ways to accomplish spiral binding on these books - one way is for the publishers to produce the book that way, as did, for instance, Interweave Knits in their Favorite Socks: 25 Timeless Designs from Interweave
I appreciate being able to lay the book flat open, rather than book-mark and continue opening to the page. For another thing, the spiral-bound book will also fit nicely onto a flatbed scanner (perhaps the reason some think it’s not good to spiral-bind their book??) for copying. No - not for re-distribution, but so I can have the pattern stuffed into my traveling sock bag.
I can then constantly refer back to it. I use the word constantly literally here, since apparently my brain is no longer capable of memory. So, a simple little “seeded ribbing check” pattern I have printed and now I can “remember” the next step in the pattern, as well as keep track of my progress/repeats by making notations on the chart included with the pattern for PinkSock4 (which, I believe, is going to have 4 repeats of the entire pattern before I start the heel flap).
But anyway - back to the spiral bindings. I think it might be a good idea for publishers to think again about using these. That way, they have control over how the final product looks - you can have your book title/publisher name on the spiral binding - or you can just leave it to chance that your book is going to appear on someone’s book shelf with your name showing. Interweave Knits - brilliant folks, don’t you think?
- that the ball-of-yarn-that-refuses-to-become-a-sock seems content with so far.
