Books for crafty people

I am a avid book lover as well as a handicrafter so it's only natural that I own some crafting books. I love browsing crafting books in libraries an bookstores as much as the next crafter, but I'm also very picky about which books actually make it to my personal collection. The books I have must be particularly versatile, thorough and inspiring to make it in my shelf.

Some (but not all) of the crafting books I own. Some here are such I definitely want to write about.

Part of why I'm rather picky about what I want to have in my bookshelf is of course the limited amount of money I have. But another very important factor is that I used to be a seamstress earlier in my life and thus have a bit more professional relationship with some forms of crafting. Generally I don't need beginners books or super simple basic pattens. I need something more inspiring or in depth.

But you know, these are not limitations I feel when I'm getting books from the library. Anything that seems remotely interesting goes. So I do read or at least browse through much wider variety of books than my bookshelf shows.

As crafting books are an obvious combination of my two great passions, I want to write about them here too. Obviously I'd like to write about the books I own, but also about nice books I find from the library. I don't quite know what kind of posts they will be, if they'll be some sort of reviews or introductions or something in between. Which would you like better?

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Omistan erinäisiä käsityökirjoja ja lainailen niitä myös kirjastosta säännöllisesti. Olen ajatellut kirjoittaa niistä jotain myös tänne blogiin, mutten tiedä vielä, minkä tyyppisiä juttuja. Lukisitko sinä mieluummin pelkkiä esittelyjä, tiukkoja arvioita vai jotain siltä väliltä?