Bend the Rules Sewing
by Amy Karol
published by Potter Craft (Crown/Random House)

Author Amy Karol, whose Angry Chicken is one of the best-loved craft blogs on the Web, brings stitchers everywhere a down-to-earth introduction to sewing, including thirty projects so adorable and cool they’ll inspire anyone to pick up a needle and thread.  With its best-friend tone, solid reference section, and supercute projects, this is the introduction to sewing that you won’t want to be without.

The Museum of Kitschy Stitches
by Stitchy McYarnpants
published by Quirk Books

Stitchy McYarnpants’s tour de farce! From the testosterone-draining styles of his-and-hers sweaters to the twisted visions of world grannification, Stitchy takes you for a stroll down repressed-memory lane that will make you giggle, make you groan, and leave you asking, “What on earth were they thinking, anyway?”