Slave to the needles
By: Aimee Hagerty
Publisher: the editor
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Seattle, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Knitting; Handbooks, manuals; Comic books, strips
Description: Seattle-based Slave to the Needles is about knitting and feminism. Issue 1 includes comics explaining basic knitting techniques and patterns for legwarmers, mittens, and thongs. There are interviews with women who make things like crotched BDSM gear and vibrator cozies, and indie band members who knit, along with reviews of knitting books, thoughts on knitting as a feminist act, and a comic about finding Mary Thomas's Book of Knitting Patterns comic finding in second hand store.
Notes: Cover title.

Gift of Marie Penny, donated in 2012.

Gift of Keight Bergmann, donated in 2012.
Table of contents: title: FEATURES --; title: Hand-stitched unmentionables : vibrator cozies, bondage, & more! --; title: Reviews of knittig books : there are suddenly a bazillion knitting books available  --; title: K is for knitting : knitting-themed books for kids  --; title: On knitting and feminism  -- by Amy Singer; title: Indie rock knitting : Rainer Maria, Rosie Thomas, and others who give knitting cred --; title: Lists : records to knit by, people who came to brunch on Sunday and what they brought, badass knitting nicknames, seven good places to knit in Seattle, my favorite zines, and other miscellany --; title: "I don't knit, but my _____ does' : testimonies from non-knitters --; title: HOW TO / PATTERNS  --; title: How to cast on : illustrated directions for getting this party started  --; title: Make a thong! : not my thing, but some women and men swear by them  --; title: A cozy for yr birth control pills : and it has a zipper!  --; title: Learn to knit : a whole world will soon be open to you --; title: Mittens : for kittens like you  --; title: Bachelor tea cozy :  -- by Lola Rogers. Before the cell phone cozy, the vibrator cozy, and the birth control pill case cozy, there was the tea cozy!; title: How to make a tassel : for hats, scarves, & the graduate caps of kindergartners  --; title: Flared legwarmers : to fit over your punk-ass boots  --; title: COMIX  --; title: Out of control --; title: Sticky fingers  -- by Marie Penny; title: Catty  --; title: Sequitur  -- by Gloria in Prague; title: Frogmo  --; title: Knitting lessons : a pedagogical comic  --; title: When you know, you know --