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Colorwork Creations: 30+ Patterns to Knit Gorgeous Hats, Mittens and Gloves Paperback – October 19, 2010

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Create beautiful woodland-inspired accessories

The gorgeous and cozy projects in Colorwork Creations simply beg to be knit. Choose from more than 30 hats, mittens and gloves that pair traditional Sanquhar knitting motifs with birds and beasts of the woodlands. Small enough for a quick-knitted gift, but precious enough to cherish forever, these pieces will, these pieces will delight and inspire for years to come.

Colorwork Creations features:

Over 30 stunning patterns, ranging from ski hats, chullos and tams to flip-top mittens, knit in a wide variety of luscious yarns and colors.
Full-color charts showcasing traditional colorwork motifs and original designs inspired by creatures of the forest: nuthatches, butterflies, reindeer and more.
Detailed patterns, techniques and tips for stress-free knitting. An innovative "finger-to-cuff" construction method for mittens and gloves makes sizing and construction a breeze.
Options for mixing and matching motifs for truly unique and customized creations.

Your adventure begins here: take a journey through colorwork with woodland-inspired knits.

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October 19, 2010
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Susan Anderson-Freed learned to knit at the age of nine from her grandmother. She is a retired Professor of Computer Science from Illinois Wesleyan University with more than thirty years of teaching experience. She enjoys cooking, spinning, dyeing, weaving, and, of course, knitting in her spare time.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Krause Publications; 1st edition (October 19, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1440212422
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1440212420
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.43 x 10 inches

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Bonnie Brody

Beautiful Patterns and Great Resource - WONDERFUL KNITTING BOOK

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 29, 2010

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Colorwork Creations is a wonderful knitting book featuring patterns for hats, mittens and gloves, all "woodland inspired". The author, Susan Anderson-Freed, "developed patterns and techniques that worked with a variety of knitting traditions, including Fair Isle, knotwork and Sanquhar". The Sanquhar patterns originated in the town of Dumfriesshire, England and the author adapted her own versions of the four Sansuhar designs. She calls her versions Duke, Roses, Rose and Trellis and Drum and Cornet. The author has a fascinating background. She is a professor of computer science and has used her professional experience in her design work. She is also a cancer survivor and has incorporated the small bows "often used to signify cancer survival". The woodland theme is see in the beasts, birds, reindeer, griffins and butterflies in her designs. The book also has patterns that experiment with tams. The patterns for tams have a variety of point. Six, eight, and ten points predominate but there are crowns with points ranging from five to eighteen. The author's "inspiration for ski hats came from A Shetland Knitter's Notebook: Knitting Patterns and Stories . The ski hats have bird and beast designs to match the mittens and gloves. The author's trip to Peru inspired her designs for chullos, while her travels to Iceland led to her designs to hats with earflaps.

The first section of the book is HATS. It's hard to pick out my favorites because they are all so stunning. I suppose if I was absolutely FORCED to name my favorites, they would be the Cardinal Ski Hat, the Chickadee Chullo, the Cinnamon Teal Chullo and the Seven-Point Star Tam. I drooled over every hat pattern and can't decide which to knit first.

The second chapter is MITTENS. The Butterfly Mittens are beautiful and poignant. The design is striking and the cancer survivor ribbons touched my heart. I love the Nuthatch Mittens as well. The Sanquhar Mitten Gallery is drop dead beautiful - museum quality.

The third chapter is GLOVES AND FLIP-TOPS. There are several that are an homage to cancer survivors and again, they are both beautiful and poignant. I especially love the Salt and Pepper Pattern and the Butterfly Flip-Tops. I'm especially fond of chickadees which are abundant in the Alaskan winters. The Chickadee gloves are just perfect for me to knit. The Cinnamon Teal Flip-Tops are beautiful and especially useful as the tops come off so that driving and rooting around in your purse is made easier.

What makes this book special is not just the beautiful patterns, but the quality of instruction and the way the author has a basic pattern for gloves, mittens, hats and tams. When I buy a knitting book, I ask myself three questions:

Does the book contain patterns I will knit?

Is the book a good resource?

Are the patterns easy to read and understand?

The answer to all three questions is a resounding yes. This is a GREAT addition to my knitting library and I'm very glad I have it.

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Chris Berg

Beware: non-standard pattern design and instructions! NOT for beginners.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 20, 2020

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Beware: the patterns in this knitting book are not written according to normal pattern standards. Due to the writer’s irrational dislike of knitting thumbs and fingers, she has chosen to write all the hats, mittens, and gloves from the TOP DOWN. For example, she wants you to knit the thumbs and fingers separately and join them to the body of the piece. As an experienced knitter, this method strikes me as awkward and unnecessary. Her designs are BEAUTIFUL and CREATIVE, but she has made them inaccessible to all but the most courageous knitter. Definitely not for beginners. I know I will be able to adapt her designs to a more practical and standardized method, but it will involve extra work for me. It would have been nice if she had included bottom-to-top directions in addition to her unusual, idiosyncratic, and invented method. Also a problem is the graphics of the patterns. Back of hand pattern on one page, palm of hand pattern on another. Not at all user-friendly. I’ll be photocopying, cutting and pasting a lot with this book.

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S. Montane

Beautiful, but difficult

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I love the photos and the charts, but I haven't been able to make anything from this book because she introduces a new cast on (Turkish) without any visual aid to aid me in mastering it. She provides an obscure paragraph towards the end of the book (not in the index) that describes how to do this mysterious Turkish cast on, without any pictures. The construction is so different that I simply haven't taken the time to learn a whole new way of making these items. I wish she provided a simpler method for intermediate or beginning mitten/hat knitters, as I now own a book that looks beautiful but is completely out of reach for me. I even asked ladies at the local knitting club to help, and none of them had heard of, much less done a Turkish cast on, or the unique thumb knitting that the writer provides (again without decent direction). This is not an accessible book for beginning to intermediate knitters.

Dec. 10th, 2012 UPDATE
I have attempted the mittens, and am more frustrated than ever. I learned the Turkish cast on from YouTube. I then proceeded to make two thumbs, but once I got to the main mitten body, geesh... I won't go into it. Suffice to say, you are much better off using a free cuff up mitten pattern from Ravelry, and just incorporating whichever chart you want, adjusting the stitches of course. I will not be trying to make these mittens again... her directions are so convoluted, so difficult to use, she even says so herself in the book that the pattern is difficult. Why go to the trouble, when there is an easier way? Best of luck all!

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yusuzuki2

雪国むきでしょうか

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on January 19, 2011

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載っている作品はすべてDKぐらいのサイズ（中細からもう少ししっかりした糸のサイズ）でした。

シンプルな編みこみをしてみたかったので、買いました。
今のところどうしても編みたい作品は見つかっていません。

雪、鳥、花、幾何学などの編みこみ模様が盛りだくさんです。
色もコントラストの強い組み合わせが多くのっていました。
こうゆうデザインって、気分で欲しくなったり、欲しくなくなったりするので、、、
今年の私の気分ではありませんでした。
でも来年はわからないなぁということです。
★３つぐらいの感じですが、
４つになったのは、
親指先から編み始める手袋の作り方をしているからです。
この編み方はぜひぜひ試してみたいので、★４つ！

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Thursday mum

うーん

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on February 9, 2014

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思っていたいたより作品数が少なくてボッタクリにあった感じ。
おそらく全ページのダウンロードは出来ない本だったのね(ToT)

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菊理

難易度は高そうですが…

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on November 21, 2013

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表紙の鳥模様の帽子と手袋に惹かれて購入しました。
編み物の経験がある程度あって、洋書の編み方の説明の基本が解るなら編めそうです。
総編み込み模様なので、とってもあたたかそうです。
手袋は雪国の人向けかもしれません。
1つの作品に使う色数はそれほど多くないので、取りかかりやすそうです。

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김 했어요

初心者には？？？

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on February 7, 2013

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図柄部分の編み図は載っていますが、全体のものはありません。図案はかわいいですが、ほとんどが鳥さんです。もう少し、編み方の説明があると嬉しいかったのですが・・・プチ初心者の私には難しそうです。

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Elle B Reader

Warm and colourful winter favourites

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 16, 2010

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This is one of those books with a bit of a learning curve for me as I've never knitted gloves or mittens by making the thumb or fingers first, then knitting from the finger end to the cuff, and so far I haven't knitted flip top gloves/mittens either.
If you have never done Fair Isle or Norwegian style knitting, and don't mind knitting on circular or double pointed sets of needles with 4ply thickness yarn then this is a good book to start with.
The book gives a basic pattern for each style, for instance all the mittens are made in the same way with the same number of stitches throughout, what changes is the design. In all cases you follow the chosen chart, along with written instructions on what to do when.
If you've never made any mittens or gloves before then you may find it helpful to follow the written instuctions and ignore the chart for the first pair. Once you have the idea, then decide which chart you like and go for it.
Most items in here can be made with any 4 ply you wish, yarn sources given are Canada and USA (internet sites given) except for Jamiesons wonderful Shetland wool.
Contents are chullos, tams, ski hats, gloves, mittens,and flip tops, all with birds, ducks, snowflakes, griffin, trees and an option to mix and match the motifs. All the charts are in colour which I find makes them easier to follow. Once I stock up on Jamiesons I'll be giving plenty of these designs a test run - if I hit any problems you'll be first to know.

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