Open, peek-a-boo stitches are all the rage with knitters and fashionistas. So isn’t it great to know that you can achieve that lovely lacy look without all the complicated patterns? Bestselling author Iris Schreier reveals her clever tricks for using simple, accessible techniques to mimic lace beautifully. Each of these 25 garments features gorgeous lightweight yarns, and their sensuous cling and drape evoke an aura of romance and sexiness. Wrap yourself in a luxurious pretty-in-pink Turkish Shawl. Play the role of a retro starlet in the Seashell Hat in ultra-soft green cashmere. Beat the heat in style with an eye-catching turquoise Chevron Halter. There’s even a show-stopping bridal outfit! Schreier carefully covers all the basics, from an overview of key stitches to picking up stitches in fabric, from creating short rows to adding trim, tassels, and cords.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Lacy Little Knits: Clingy, Soft & A Little Risque (Hardcover)
This collection of mostly tops is innovative and very pretty. I like the different ways the authors uses loose and open stitches in her patterns and the effects she gets without requiring the reader to have much actual lace knitting know how. The cover design is a take off on the "Scribble Lace" technique introduced by Debbie New in Unexpected Knitting. In that book it was cutting edge and altogether new, and this author is able to use the technique very well. It's too bad she didn't give some credit to the person who brought that technique to the table.
My favorite pattern by far is the Diagonals in Flight Cardigan. It's lovely from beginning to end and the models are gorgeous older women. I just love that! However, I have some concerns about the book in general. I am cautious about any book that serves mostly as a brochure for a yarn company. Although I like many of the designs, this book is just that. The yarn company's website is given for further reference after each and every pattern type. To access their free bonus patterns they want to send them to you via e-mail rather than publishing them on their sight. Not for me. I also checked out the prices of some of the author's yarns and found them to be excessively pricey. Not surprisingly, yarn substitution is discouraged by the author. Had I known that these patterns were written for a specific yarn, I would never have purchased the book. For me, any pattern that assumes the knitter will knit only with a certain yarn, and that yarn only, isn't worth looking at. I believe that patterns should be written according to a stockinette gauge in order to finally fit an actual body, not to cater to and show off a yarn which may or may not be around next week. My personal quirk. This brings me to my second concern. In many of the patterns, the gauge is measured over the pattern stitch. That means to me that a knitter either has to knit an alternate small project or two, for which there are no directions, and then calculate the gauge from that, or else has to do a lot of extra knitting with expensive yarn. Additionally, measuring gauge over a pattern stitch, especially an open stitch is incredibly difficult--this in a book that says it's for creating "hassle-free lace designs." The author says that she's thrown out the rules, the line by line directions and charts and will teach knitters how to intuitively understand how to build the next row. I didn't find this to be the case. Indeed, there were no charts, but the directions were actually quite line by line and not at all intuitive. The concept of lining up pattern repeats or offsetting by one stitch every other row isn't intuitive, but simple common sense that nearly every knitter already has. Finally, if you're a lace knitter, know that this book doesn't deal with actual lace patterns, as far as traditional lace patterns go. They're highly repetitive, use yarn overs, and feature very loose knitting with very expensive luxury yarns, but they're not true lace, in the sense of comparison with Shetland lace or classical lace. The techniques used include garter drop stitch, yarn over chevrons and triangles, scribble lace slip stitch, and some simple garter stitch laces. All that being said, the tops are really quite lovely. All stitches are simple, but as stated above, they are used with very nice results. There is simple shaping and the stitches used create a body hugging garment in many cases, thus the "clingy" subtitle. I don't know about the "soft" part, but there isn't anything risque unless they're worn without undergarments. It's a pretty book and it provides some nice inspiration for me. The photography is nice and the models are pretty and normal looking. I especially like that part. Bottom line, if you're not willing or able to use the exact yarns given in the book, some at $20+ per skein, you may be in for a difficult go of it. Even if you do use the exact yarns, the differences in how each person knits could set you up for a failure. The prospect of a flopped project at those prices is horrific to me, but perhaps there are other knitters who are braver than I am about that. As for me, I'll make my own lacy creations loosely based on the photographs and diagrams, but out of my own hand spun yarns, and the tried and true wools and cottons that are so readily available and that I love so much.
56 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
cute, BUT.....,
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totally dependant on artyarns yarns. It will be VERY difficult to sub the yarns here, since the stitches are so simple that most of the effect comes from the actual yarns; many designs seem to use 2, 3 or more of their yarns, and like I said, the effect is mainly from their colours and a few yarnovers.... I'm in Europe, and thus depend on internet shopping to buy their stuff, which not many of the suppliers I know sell. And I am wary of shopping at too many different sites... I tend to stick to my few good suppliers that I trust. She does give amounts and types of yarn at the start of the pattern, then at the end she details which of her yarns have been used. But in the long intro, she says that subbing has to be done very carefully, as weight is not enough indication, the designs may not work unless the yarns are extremely similar.....
So yes, I feel more than a little ripped off. This book should have been called Lacy little knits by artyarns or something to that effect. Exquisite little knits was different. Her designs used a mix of yarns by different manufacturers. Much more user friendly. There are some very pretty things in here, the prettiest is actually the cover look. There's also a ruffly lacey cardi which is cute. But I don't really like some of the designs - there are a tad too many modular thingies.... shrugs, shawls and so on - and I am not a fan of modular knitting, so if that's your thing, you will like this book - taste differs! PS Conservative ladies, don't worry - unless you wear the two cardis mentioned above and a very strange halter top over bare skin, nothing in here is at all risque. Unless European and American meanings differ greatly....
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of winners for American knitters,
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I met Iris once when she came to my town (in Israel) and she was knitting something for this book so I knew I wanted to own it and I am really pleased with it. Many of the items are very appealing to me and most of them are quite simple to make. Instructions seem to be very thorough with all the information I need except for one thing: the yarns called for do not have listed anywhere their weight category in the knitting standards and in addition many of the items call for using 2 yarns together so if you have to substitute and I have to, then I must go by the gauge. This means a lot more work for me. All of the yarns are made by her husband's company and because it is American and the postage has become impossible for international sales, I can't recommend this book to anyone outside the western hemisphere. Five stars anyway because it's a lovely book.
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