Books with title The Golden Retriever

Best selling novelist Debbie Macomber, a lifelong knitter, says "Peggy Gaffney has introduced a new idea into the knitting realm. Your're in for a real treat." Debbie Macomber, who often includes Goldens in her novels, is talking about the new idea of creating a whole book that deals with designing portraits in knitting of a single breed of dog. As she explains in her Forward to The Crafty Golden Retriever Knits, "Really, what could be better? Yarn, a pair of knitting needles, a good pattern, and a faithful companion by your side." The concept starts with stories. These stories about the Golden give the reader a broad understanding of all the activities the dogs enjoy. They are written by Peggy Gaffney with the help of those who know and care about the breed most. These stories in turn inspire portraits. These are portraits of Goldens hunting, doing agility, rescuing a child, diving from a dock, and performing a myriad of activities that make these dogs distinctive. Only these portraits are created using knitting stitches. The knitted portraits appear as more than 20 charted graphs that knitters may work into any of the 24 sweater and accessory patterns included. The Crafty Golden Retriever Knits is beautifully illustrated with over 75 photographs of Goldens involved in every possible activity as well as just being dogs. The photographers who illustrate the book are Betty Schmidt, who specializes in photos of dogs competing in field trials or hunting with their owners, and Mary and Joseph MacQueen, who photograph dogs from their own Nitro Golden kennel. Mary shares the experience of her work in search and rescue and drug detection in which she and her dog Ch. Robin are vitally active and the story is an inspiration. The Crafty Golden Retriever Knits is the third volume in the unique Crafty Dog Knits series from publisher Kanine Knits. The concept is to take a single breed of dog, tell about all the things they do that are distinctive to that specific breed, and then turn this information into designs. Author-Designer Peggy Gaffney, also a lifelong knitter has spent the last 40 years breeding and showing purbred Samoyeds. She has insight inot the world of purebred dogs and the passion and loyalty each owner feels for his specific breed. The two previous books in this series are The Crafty Samoyed Knits and The Crafty Labrador Retriever Knits.

Three little golden retriever puppies are forced to leave the family dog house. As they venture out into the world on their own, their mother warns them to beware of the big, bad dog catcher. As each build their own dog house, each experience a different situation with the big, bad dog catcher. Their adventure is exciting, filled with cute, colorful illustrations that enhance the book. This is a book children will lov

Journal with beautiful Golden Retriever as the cover.7" x 9" in size so a really useful sized book.Plenty of room to write and doodle in, but easily stored around the house or to take in a large bag.One plain page for doodling alternated with one lined page for writing on.Over a hundred clean white pages for all your notes and doodles.Softback cover in a glossy finish to really show off the beautiful cover design.Perfect gift for anyone who loves Golden Retrievers, dogs or just a nice cover design. Great as a gift or treat yourself. One of a range of quality books and journals from Dreamflight Publications. Check out our other designs- just search for Dreamflight Publications.