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This book is all about using color-lots of it. Knitters Bourgault and Evans cover four principal methods of working with color in knitting: stripes, intarsia (picture knitting), Fair Isle (stranding different colors across the row), and surface embellishment. They illustrate these methods with 25 "teaching pieces." Budding graphic knitwear designers will appreciate the sections devoted to embellishment ideas, converting photos to graphic knits, and design and pattern sources, while knitters with basic skills will be able to take their craft to a new creative level. An excellent choice for large public libraries and art textile collections. - Library Journal December, 2006

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25 clever and unique graphic knitting patterns and designs for young knitters

Graphic knits have a long history, and this type of knitting is quite popular though typically, the designs have been based on traditional old style motifs like snowflakes, leaves, and flowers. This book gives a growing, younger, experimental audience of knitters a great resource of stylish, contemporary graphics, and shows them how to integrate patterns into knitted sweaters, tanks, bags, hats, legwarmers, and more. The book will show how you can convert any design an 8 ball, a palm tree, an Elvis, a heart with an arrow into a knitting pattern, and translate it into a project. The book covers basic techniques, stripes, intarsia, fair isle, duplicate stitch, embroidery and embellishments, and includes a gallery of graphs for cool projects.

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Spiral-bound: 160 pages
Publisher: Quarry Books (November 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1592532624
ISBN-13: 978-1592532629
Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 9.2 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,007,438 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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graphic knits, caliper cables, sts rem, rnd marker, duplicate stitch, dec rnd, intarsia knitting, check your gauge, circular needle, working yarn, tapestry needle, correct gauge, rem sts, straight needles, turning row, purl row, purl side, piece measures, last needle, stockinette stitch, knitted piece, extra wrap, armhole edge, wrapping yarn, chart sequence

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Finished Dimensions, Needles One, Materials Yarn Medium, Notions Stitch, Finishing Weave, Audrey Hepburn, Materials Yarn Light-weight, Finishing Block, Moon Day Yoga Tank, Peruvian Lovebird Hat, Rep Row, Armhole Shaping, Ella's Argyle Dog Sweater, Evans Sizes Small, Nashua Handknits Creative Focus Worsted, Notions Tapestry, Shape Armholes

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2.0 out of 5 stars Hip Graphic Knits: Unique Patterns and Techniques for Adding Stylish Graphics to Your Knitted Designs, March 6, 2008

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This book LOOKS really cool but I was sorely disappointed with the ho-hum graphics. I thought they were a bit boring; I had really hoped to see some funky designs. There were only 2 or 3 HIP and FUNKY designs in the book and the rest were very mainstream. Yawn.

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