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Colorful Knitwear Design (Threads On)

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If you love looking at beautiful original knitting, then you will love this book. Despite never having knit anything from its pages, it is a book I come back to again and again.

The book is arranged into short articles, and each provides its own brand of inpiration. Most of the authors seem genuinely in love with their subject, and there is a lot of valuable information on color choices, patterned knitting, 3-dimensional knitting...almost anything to do with yarn and color.

While almost none of the pieces demonstrated are anything I will ever knit, many of them have provided springboard ideas for my knitting, and occassionally some valuable techniques. Generally speaking though, if you're looking for instruction, look elsewhere - this is inspiration.

This book is one I couldn't put down, kept up my interest throughout. Explains in full detail while also providing great photos and drawings in color that are simple to follow. You will be amazed at the wonderful results. This undoubtedly will be a classic in the years to come. It teaches all you need to know in learning how to utilize different colors and yarn for your knitwear. I would love to rate this higher than 5 stars.

Included among the chapters are many various styles of sweaters, sweater coats, children sweaters, Norwegian Sweaters, and even cardigan borders in detail, or knitting without patterns at all, and even knitting your own color picture graph without any difficulty. Color blending so easy, you will find it hard to believe that you can do it as quickly as you do.
Also included, Embellished Children's Sweaters, an elephant, a ghost, a dinosaur and believe it or not, a "cute" snake.

Also included, a great section on Charting Lace, picturing Alice Starmore's design "Flying Birds", and how to accomplish the task of charting lace.

Terrific chapter by Nancy Marchant teaching the three basic techniques of Intarsia knitting, including wonderful photos and diagrams showing how to do perform this amazing art.

Ribbing that holds it shape, hems and pockets, and much,, much more.
This is a wonderful knitting book that should be in every knitter's library. This one is a keeper.

Threads Magazine used to publish an occasional knitting article. After much hemming (!) and hawing, they decided to concentrate on sewing only. This was a loss to knitters but the Threads publishers have collected the articles into a series of books. Thanks, Taunton Press!

This particular volume has articles on techniques such as strip-knitting, which is back in vogue right now. You make a garment in a series of knitted-together strips that form the shape of the garment by varying their lengths. Each strip can be a different pattern or offset patterns and lends a very nice ethnic look (think mudcloth or other handcrafted textiles.)

There are articles about design techniques such as symmetry, texture stitches with colorwork, some lace and a few intarsia things that look a lot like Kaffe Fasset style knitting. Mostly this book is ABOUT the design and not about the patterns, so if you like to design this is for you. If you are looking for a book of models to knit from patterns, you might be disappointed.

This knitting book is unlike any of the others that I own. This one deals with color combinations. There is a beautiful coat sweater they show but do not give the direction on making it which I wish they had. Just seeing that made me want to make one in the future my own way. Its a beautiful book.

Since it is an inspirational book full of colors and techniques, my mind relaxed into a creative mode.

Beeeeautiful, Wonderful, easily read and Understood....and at my age that's not always done. Arrived in great condition...just wish they could tell me how to make time to do everything it's got clicking in my brain.

It's a spectacular collection of articles, and if color is your main interest in knitwear, you'll love it. That the articles are dated is of no real importance compared to the dazzle of the techniques and ideas... exactly what we expect from Threads books. I wouldn't let it out of my sight. Only the Tone Takle books even come close for inspiration and appeal, in my opinion. Get it. Get it. : )