Strip & Knit with Style: Create Fabric-Yarn Use Cotton, Wool, Fleece & More Knit 16 Projects for You & Your Home [Paperback]

Mark Hordyszynski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2008

Knit 16 fun, fashion-forward wearables and home accessories with strips of cotton, wool, fleece, and other fabrics.

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About the Author

Mark Hordyszynski is an award-winning fabric designer and art director.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: C&T Publishing (October 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571204547
• ISBN-13: 978-1571204547
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #354,976 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born and bred in New York City, Mark graduated from both The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY and the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. He has worked in both the front of the house and in the kitchen of restaurants, hotels and an affluent Westchester NY country club; he has designed menswear, runs his own small business, and is an artist, author, award winning photographer and fabric designer, accomplished knitter and recently, the dedicated sales rep for Blank Quilting in Hawaii, where he now resides on the island of Maui.

SHAG is his first novel, and STRIP and KNIT with STYLE is his first how-to book. You can follow his progress on his blog http://cre8ive-chaos.blogspot.com/ and his Facebook business page, cre8ive chaos.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I'll stick to yarn, October 29, 2010

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This review is from: Strip & Knit with Style: Create Fabric-Yarn Use Cotton, Wool, Fleece & More Knit 16 Projects for You & Your Home (Paperback)

Strip & Knit with Style: Create Fabric-Yarn Use Cotton, Wool, Fleece & More Knit 16 Projects for You & Your Home by Mark Hordyszynski, published by C&T Publishing, is a book that marries knitting and woven fabrics. Hordyszynski uses fabric to create strips and then proceeds to knit with them. He talks about the properties of different fabric materials; silk, wool, cotton and man-made. Then he proceeds to discuss how to treat fabric by painting, dyeing or discharging (which is when you actually remove the color from the fabric). From there is a discussion of how to cut or tear your fabric into strips, join the strips together, basics of how to knit and then finally how to knit with the strips acknowledging their specific properties (will they ravel or not for example).

The results are often lovely and always interesting, but I'm not sure the effort to create them is worth the time required. Knitting is a process for me and I will admit to being a person who does not enjoy sewing so that could have something to do with my less than enthusiastic response to Hordyszynski's methods. But if you have tired of knitting with yarn and are or have access to fabric that you are interested in striping this is the book for you.

The book has sixteen different projects and they may inspire you to greatness or at least a new burst of creativity. Hordyszynski includes pillows, scarfs, a simple tank top, and more. The preponderance of pillows in the book would allow you to experiment with a small project to see if you even like it and you have the opportunity to purchase new gadgets to make cutting the fabric easy. They all follow the basic steps he has laid out and if this is your cup of tea you will find it well organized and fun. But this book is definitely for the specialist, the person who likes to knit, but also loves to work with fabric and is in need of a challenge or something different. I think I'll stick to the knitting basics or at least knitting with yarn.