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Hip Graphic Knits: Unique Patterns and Techniques for Adding Stylish Graphics to Your Knitted Designs (Domestic Arts for Crafty Gals) [Spiral-bound]

Rochelle Bourgault (Author), Lisa Evans (Author)
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Domestic Arts for Crafty Gals November 1, 2006
25 clever and unique graphic knitting patterns and designs for young knitters

Graphic knits have a long history, and this type of knitting is quite popular though typically, the designs have been based on traditional old style motifs like snowflakes, leaves, and flowers. This book gives a growing, younger, experimental audience of knitters a great resource of stylish, contemporary graphics, and shows them how to integrate patterns into knitted sweaters, tanks, bags, hats, legwarmers, and more. The book will show how you can convert any design an 8 ball, a palm tree, an Elvis, a heart with an arrow into a knitting pattern, and translate it into a project. The book covers basic techniques, stripes, intarsia, fair isle, duplicate stitch, embroidery and embellishments, and includes a gallery of graphs for cool projects.


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This book is all about using color-lots of it. Knitters Bourgault and Evans cover four principal methods of working with color in knitting: stripes, intarsia (picture knitting), Fair Isle (stranding different colors across the row), and surface embellishment. They illustrate these methods with 25 "teaching pieces." Budding graphic knitwear designers will appreciate the sections devoted to embellishment ideas, converting photos to graphic knits, and design and pattern sources, while knitters with basic skills will be able to take their craft to a new creative level. An excellent choice for large public libraries and art textile collections. - Library Journal December, 2006

About the Author

Rochelle Bourgault works in publishing, is a freelance writer, and an all-around crafty gal. She graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. She attempted her first knitting project at the age of eight, and has come a long way from that first ill-fated slipper. Rochelle lives in Cambridge, MA.

Product Details

  • Spiral-bound: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Quarry Books (November 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1592532624
  • ISBN-13: 978-1592532629
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 9.9 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,915,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hip Graphic Knits: Unique Patterns and Techniques for Adding Stylish Graphics to Your Knitted Designs, August 16, 2011
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WONDERFUL! 5STAR review. Beautiful patterns all through the book and good instructions. I am really really happy with my purchase. WOW!
It is like new and the price - you practically gave this book away.
I may just purchase another book 4 the liking heck of it. Again, WOW! and thank you.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Hip Graphic Knits: Unique Patterns and Techniques for Adding Stylish Graphics to Your Knitted Designs, March 6, 2008
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This book LOOKS really cool but I was sorely disappointed with the ho-hum graphics. I thought they were a bit boring; I had really hoped to see some funky designs. There were only 2 or 3 HIP and FUNKY designs in the book and the rest were very mainstream. Yawn.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
graphic knits, caliper cables, sts rem, rnd marker, duplicate stitch, dec rnd, intarsia knitting, check your gauge, circular needle, working yarn, tapestry needle, correct gauge, rem sts, straight needles, turning row, purl row, purl side, piece measures, last needle, stockinette stitch, knitted piece, extra wrap, armhole edge, wrapping yarn, chart sequence
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Finished Dimensions, Needles One, Materials Yarn Medium, Notions Stitch, Finishing Weave, Audrey Hepburn, Materials Yarn Light-weight, Finishing Block, Moon Day Yoga Tank, Peruvian Lovebird Hat, Rep Row, Armhole Shaping, Ella's Argyle Dog Sweater, Evans Sizes Small, Nashua Handknits Creative Focus Worsted, Notions Tapestry, Shape Armholes
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