Ribbon Style: Knitted Fashions And Accessories [Paperback]

Cheryl Potter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 12, 2006

Any knitter will feel like an instant designer when she plays with stunning ribbons! Wide or narrow, tubular or flat, shiny or matte - today's dazzling array of ribbon yarns will give you gorgeous results with these expert techniques. This work includes: twenty-five luxurious projects include scarves, shawls, tanks, tees, knapsacks, and ponchos. Find dozens of tricks for successfully working with hand-dyed, solid, and multicolored ribbons. Learn how to choose the right kind of ribbon to get the perfect texture and drape for any project.

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About the Author

Cheryl Potter is a fiber artist who has written and designed for Vogue Knitting, Knitter's Magazine, Family Circle Easy Knitting, and Interweave Knits. As the owner of Cherry Tree Hill Yarn, she has published dozens of knitwear patterns. Cheryl has also designed yarns for Cashmere America and Lion Brand Yarn.

Product Details

• Paperback: 111 pages
• Publisher: Martingale & Co Inc (June 12, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564776689
• ISBN-13: 978-1564776686
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,154,936 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Cheryl Potter's love for knitting began at age eight when she created a lime green-and-yellow striped T-shirt with a sparkle yarn called Dazzle Working part time for various yarn shops, she knit her way through Middlebury Collage in Vermont. In graduate school she was heavily influenced by Kaffe Fassett, who inspired her first set of hand-dyed colorways.
After earning her master of fine arts degree at the University of Arizona, Cheryl returned to Vermont and founded a hand-painted yarn company called Cherry Tree Hill, the name of her mountaintop farm. In an old milk house, she dyed and designed wearable art garments until she was discovered by Interweave Knits magazine in 1997. Cherry Tree Hill yarns are now sold in hundreds of stores all over the world, and Cheryl's work regularly appears in magazines and catalogs, as well as on television. Today she is best known for her innovative colorways, painted on a variety of natural and synthetic fibers.
During her years as a fiber artist Cheryl has been a prolific writer and teacher of workshops that focus on fiber, color and texture. Her first published book in the field is called Handpaint Country, and was done with the photography skills of Alexis Xenakis. The most recent, Skein for Skein is her sixth book. She's working now on an E-book Called Potluck yarn that's free to read online at www.potluckyarn.com. Come to www.cherryyarn.com to see her work or read her blog.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful but hard to duplicate, August 25, 2006

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I should have realized that a book by Cheryl Potter would focus on her yarns -- which are stunning, but quite expensive. The book offers some beautiful designs, but does a good job of convincing you that mixing types of yarns requires a lot of experimentation and can be prone to much disappointment. Of course, they want you to use the ones that they list. But now I'm a bit wary of using the yarns I have instead of the ones they're selling. I'll probably get over this and try my own combinations, since the end results ARE very enticing! But I'll have to keep looking for a more generic discussion of how to approach mixing yarns, both from the standpoint of how they look and also how to adapt gauge, needle size, etc. -- this one doesn't do that.