I like to listen to knitting podcasts while I knit, especially when it’s something that needs attention and TV will only distract me. But recently I’ve become tired of the podcasts I used to listen to, and wanted something else.
So looking through the audiobooks on iTunes, I found that The History of Hand Knitting was only £3.95 and decided it was well worth buying as it’s considerably more on CD (the book itself is currently out of print).
I listened to about an hour of it last night. The reader, Melissa Hughes, has a nice soothing voice, although she does have a habit of putting on a gruff voice when quoting sources written by a man which seemed a tad unnecessary and made her sound like Sir John Middleton in Sense and Sensibility (1995 film version, to be precise!).
The problem is that I kept stopping what I was doing to pay closer attention to the book. There’s a lot of information and it all seems to come very fast. I’m also not sure I like Richard Rutt’s style. Without the book to see where he has found certain information, he comes across very single mined, as if there is no possible way he could be wrong in his assertions. Unless he actually has a time machine, in which case I apologise. 
So what with questioning what I was hearing, it wasn’t really a successful alternative to listening to knitting podcasts. Maybe I should stick to music instead. 
