Clear, step-by-step photographs and instructions guide you through all the skills you will need to make beautiful blankets and throws, from choosing yarns and basic knitting and crochet stitches to Fair Isle and intarsia techniques, making and piecing blocks and strips, and creating delicate openwork fabrics.Learn how to read patterns and adapt cross-stitch graphs, or chart your own unique designs; use multiple stitch techniques to create bobbles, popcorns, and cables; create stunning effects by combining colour, pattern and texture; add finishing touches with fringes, borders, tassels, beads and embroidery.Includes and inspirational gallery of designs and motifs with complete stitching instructions, cross-referenced to the techniques within the book.
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- ISBN
9781844483228
- Published
- June 1st 2008 by Search Press Ltd
- Category
- General
- Number of pages
- 144
- County of origin
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Dimensions
- 222 x 222