Cal’s Reviews > Knitting for Anarchists: The What, Why and How of Knitting > Status Update

And another absolutism: this thing that I vaguely described is the only other common cast-on.

Um, no. That sounds very like cable cast-on, which is less common than knit. Provisional chain is also widely recommended to absolute beginners who start too tight, and there's at least one more though I can't remember more distinctly. Don't take absolutism literally, kids

I find the absolutism creeping in distasteful. Wool is not the only worthwhile yarn, there are times when you have to sacrifice fun for the desired result, not all bamboo needles have a finish (mine have all been carbonised) are what I caught in just the last three pages

Ah yes, I don't like the forceful bias for wool here. No mention of the benefits of other fibres at all, so quite unbalanced. And then there is a return to the implication that wool is the only valid yarn on this page

As someone who failed to learn knitting for decades simply because I didn't know that there was more than one way, I love the book so far. I previously got a bit further, and dimly recall not liking her attitude to wool, but an essential read for those who work and/or think a little differently or are failing to start knitting