Crafted with the precision of a Fair Isle garment, informed by accounts from the knitters themselves, and set firmly within it's historical and sociological roots, this book takes you to the heart of this knitting tradition. It presents the history of Fair Isle knitting and an examination of the style's techniques.

The Harmony Guides are a series of practical, illustrated guides to hand knitting and crochet explaining basic techniques from start to finish. This volume offers tips on producing Aran and Fair Isle garments.

Let's say you want to personalise or embellish an existing knitting pattern. Perhaps it's a plain sweater and you want to add edging to the cuffs or put a sunflower or an aeroplane motif on the pocket of a child's cardigan or incorporate a textured stitch, such as Fair Isle, to the yoke of a knitted jacket...

Briefly traces the history of knitting, discusses yarns, tools, and basic techniques, and tells how to design, make, finish, and care for knitware.

Rowan has taken the step of providing Kaffe Fasset with the chance to redesign and recolour 24 of his favourite Rowan designs in the range of Rowan classic yarns. Kaffe has chosen to recolour some of his existing designs or reinvent the more complex as cushions or throws, to make them accessible to less experienced knitters.

In late 19th century, Cornwall hand-knitting was a vital cottage industry and coastal villages developed their own distinctive patterns and names for the traditional navy blue guernsey or knit-frock. This book includes many contemporary photographs, and shows how to knit a Cornish guernsey incorporating one of thirty local patterns.

Bringing the principles of colour theory down to a usable level, this text applies them to knitting, spinning, weaving, surface design and much more.

With over 650 practical drawings, this handbook offers step-by-step instructions in all the techniques a knitter needs to know. It includes information for every stage, from casting on to adding the finishing touches, and also advises on what to do when things go wrong.

Simple approaches to choosing, using and wearing colour move knitters from being intimidated by the choices to being excited by possbilities.

A complete course in knitting, this title takes you lesson-by-lesson through the stitches and techniques, from casting on the first stitch to creating an intricate Fair Isle cardigan. It contains 15 specially designed projects.

Creative Knitting Stitches Volume 3 contains several hundred more stitches. Colour photographs of the finished patterns and black and white charts are supplied where appropriate.