Knit One, Stripe Too: Making the Most of Self-Striping Yarn [Paperback]

Candace Eisner Strick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2007

Looking for a magic yarn? Try self-striping yarn--and watch the fibers perform knitting miracles! This incredible variety of projects is specially designed for striped yarns. See amazing colors and patterns show up naturally as you knit.

* Packed with 27 projects for self-striping yarns, most easy enough for novice knitters

* Choose from sweaters, skirts, socks, mitts, slippers, scarves, bags, and more

* Start with horizontally and vertically knit designs, then move on to diagonal, mitered, and circular techniques

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About the Author

Home: Mansfield Center, Connecticut

Six-time author Candace Eisner Strick runs Strickwear, her yarn and pattern business, from her home. She has also written books on quilting and crochet.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Martingale and Company (September 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564777553
• ISBN-13: 978-1564777553
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #641,825 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Learning both music and knitting at the age of three, Candace Eisner Strick has followed these two loves all her life. She was co-director and cello instructor of the Suzuki String Program of Mansfield, CT for 16 years. Her latest book, Strick-ly Socks, features a revolutionary and amazingly simple way of knitting socks.

She is the author of Sweaters From a New England Village (Down East Books, 1996), a book about Harrisville, NH which features twenty original designs using Harrisville Designs yarn. Her second book, Sweaters From New England Sheep Farms (Down East Books, 2000) is a series of portraits of eight New England sheep farmers who hand-dye the wool they produce, and includes over 25 original designs using their fiber. Her third knitting book, Beyond Wool (Martingale and Co., Feb. 2004), uses a variety of fibers other than wool. There are chapters about the fibers as well as 25 original designs. Her fourth book, The Quilter's Quick Reference Guide, was released in June, 2004 by Martingale and Co. Her fifth publication, Little Box of Crocheted Bags, was released in March 2006 by Martingale and Co. Her sixth book, Knit One, Stripe Too, was released by Martingale and Co. in October, 2008.

Her designs and writing have appeared in Knitter's Magazine, Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting, Knit It Magazine, Wild Fiber Magazine, Cast On Magazine, Vogue Knitting books and Interweave Knitting books. Candace designs for yarn companies while she and her husband run their internet based business, www.Strickwear.com, which features her exclusive designs, and her new line of yarn, Merging Colors.

Candace teaches workshops internationally at major knitting conventions and guilds. Her other fiber related interests include spinning, weaving, dyeing and quilting. When not doing the above, she is riding her bicycle. She lives in rural Connecticut with her pianist/knitting husband Ken, wonder-bunny Abraham, and 2 birds. She has three grown sons, all of whom know how to knit but refuse to do so.

You can follow Candace by reading her blog at http://candaceeisnerstrickknitting.blogspot.com/2010/06/im-here.html

Videos of knitting techniques can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/user/Strickwear

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars for beginners, November 5, 2007

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This review is from: Knit One, Stripe Too: Making the Most of Self-Striping Yarn (Paperback)

The 27 patterns using self striping yarns (most familiar to sock knitters) break down into mitered blanket, jumper and baby bunting, socks, beaded mitts, felted adult slippers, shetland scarf, short row hat, 5 sweaters and jackets, 2 skirts, 5 shawls or stoles, 3 summer tops and 2 bags, set of bowls and felted basket. Each pattern has helpful schematic and easy written instructions. Author's introduction to this type of yarn is quite interesting. Book concludes with 3 pages of basic techniques, abbreviations page, other helpful information such as skill level and list of yarn companies who have donated the yarns. Each pattern has full page picture in color which I did not find very attractive. I liked two of the projects: circle stripes stole and paintbox stripes knit from side to side. I have all of this author's previous books many of which were excellent so I recommend looking for them especially Sweaters from New England sheep farms and Sweaters from New England village and Beyond wool using unusual yarns.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Any library including knitting project guides will welcome this., May 9, 2008

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This review is from: Knit One, Stripe Too: Making the Most of Self-Striping Yarn (Paperback)

KNIT ONE, STRIPE TOO: MAKING THE MOST OF SELF-STRIPING YARNS promotes the new colors and combination opportunities of such yarns, using nearly thirty projects designed especially for self-striping yarns and including socks, slippers, scarves, bags and more; many most accessible to beginners. Full-page colorful photos of finished products accompany knitting directions, materials lists and notes on project attributes. Any library including knitting project guides will welcome this.

Diane C. Donovan
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5.0 out of 5 stars knit one, stripe two review, August 14, 2010

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This review is from: Knit One, Stripe Too: Making the Most of Self-Striping Yarn (Paperback)

Very good book, good buy. More advanced projects. Do not recommend for novice knitters.