Customer Reviews

Picture Perfect Knits

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I wanted to learn how to knit and with all the books out there I didn't know where to start. I bought this book and couldn't be any happier. It has great pictures and easy to understand instructions. I thought knitting might be difficult to learn, but she makes it easy for beginners. Even if you have been knitting for years you will miss out if you don't buy this book.

I bought this book for the lesson on intarsia, its the best I've seen so far, however, I found I still needed a lesson from a teacher to get started. I discovered there are a few important things that are helpful to know that weren't covered in the book. Many of the charted designs looked like clip art to me, but might be good to practice with.

When you shop for knitting books from online knitting stores, you can preview the images of the completed projects rather than an introductory note. Most are willing to pay more for a book if it also contains patterns they may wish to actually use. Sadly Amazon has yet to embrace this concept when giving previews for pattern books.

Reading customer reviews, I took a chance and purchased this book since I have an intarsia project I wish to do. I am very pleased with the patterns contained. (Pocket scarf, Felted Bag, Dog Sweater, Throw Pillows, baby sweater, Kitty hat and mittens (child), Vest and Crop Cardigan. Each is made with suggested intarsia images and images of the completed project is in the book. The most exciting thing is multiple intarsia charts are included in the back portion of the book, so you could change the design to something you prefer. It is easy to look at those charts and learn how to convert other images to intarsia charts.

I am excited to use this book. The patterns appear easy to follow.

I found this book really helpful! I have never done intarsia before and thought the author did a really good job of explaining it and made it much more simple than I had previously thought:)
I also loved that she had numerous artists submit their designs for the book, so there is a nice array of all different projects to work on!