I blame Julie and Julia. After reading Julie Powell’s book (New York: Little,Brown, 2005) describing how she made—and blogged about—every recipe in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Volume 1, 40th anniversary ed. New York: Knopf, 2001), I became interested in blogging about a similar project—in knitting. But what knitting manual would keep me interested for an entire year?