Kaffe Fassett's knitted garments sell for upwards of 00 each. This book includes over 300 patterns for jackets, coats, waistcoats, dresses, shawls, and slipovers for men, women and children, plus lots of variations for the more adventurous knitter.

Heirlooms are a family's link from past to present, a legacy for the future, and the lace knitting of the Shetland Isles has created much treasured family knitwear. This book is for both the everyday and expert knitter, and intended as an instructive guide and an overview of Shetland lace.

If you completed a sweater only to find the buttonholes gape, ribbings flare, or seams pucker, this book is for you. It offers clear illustrated directions for dozens of knitting techniques including cast ons, bind offs, increases, decreases, buttonholes and more.

Practically every knitted project needs an edging. This book offers more than 300 unusual edge combinations and shapings that will add a special, unique touch to any knitted garment. The striking patterns will keep knitters of every level busy experimenting with different types of ties, loops, knots, braids, twists, bobbles and more. The topics explored in depth include: Unique ribs Cords ...

Contemporary knitters will delight in these traditional and innovative patterns for men and women. Collected through the ages and from around the world, these wonderful projects are accompanied by folk stories and regional histories from the countries of origin.

Contains ideas for hats, gloves, scarves, socks, bags and jewellery. This title includes projects such as a French beret, a cloche hat, fingerless gloves, shoulder bag, striped beanie hat, lacy wrap, tweedie socks, pom-pom scarf and cozy slippers.

Combines beading, scrapbooking, quilting, fiber arts, and mixed-media techniques to create lightweight beads made from rolled tubes of silk fabric and painted or embellished with stamps and other materials. This title shows various beadmaking steps with step-by-step photography and uses materials from craft and fabric stores.

25 Projects (Plus Variations) and Techniques for Customizing to Fit Your Style and Your Body. Provides concrete techniques for how to improvise with confidence, enabling knitters to stray from the pattern and make smart design choices.

Includes 26 garments and accessories, taking as inspiration traditional Icelandic rose-pattern designs. This collection also includes sweaters, waistcoats, hats, scarves and gloves for the whole family. It contains a section on the history of rose patterns, which offers a glimpse into the traditions of Icelanders.

A celebration of various aspects of the craft. This title mixes cartoon humor with short essays on knitting. It includes seventy-five cartoons, rendered in pen and ink with watercolor wash, in addition to short essays on various themes of the knitting life.

Offers knitting traditions and techniques, including colourwork, cables, lace, intarsia and more. This title explains the origins and traditional uses of each one. It includes colourful maps and historical photographs and is suitable for knitters seeking new inspiration.

Features the techniques and information needed to begin needle felting, including instructions with photographs covering the basics of needle felting. This book includes over 20 step-by-step projects, including wearable items such as jewellery, scarves, hats and bags; objects for you and your home, including a pillow; and dolls and toys.

The Yarn Harlot Writes Again. Everyone's favourite knitter and blogger Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (aka The Yarn Harlot) is back again with more knitting enjoyment to reveal the purest elements of her woolly craft obsession.

Celebrates artisans from all over the world of knitting. This book features thirty-eight interviews with American spinners, weavers and knitters. It also features shepherds caring for rare breeds, a plant biologist developing a strain of naturally colored cotton, and the hand spinners and hand dyers who produce gorgeous skeins of yarn.

Whether you prefer fun designs or classic styles, this book shows you how to knit over 30 different pairs of socks. It ranges from rainbow toes and animal motifs to classic fairisle and chunky bedsocks.

Features more than twenty contemporary projects knit with lightweight yarns. This book includes projects that show that garments knitted with thin yarns fit more precisely, are more flattering to the figure, feel better against the skin, are great for layering, and offer more versatility for fashion elements like ruching, ruffles, and drape.

A collection of projects that include double-knit, entrelac, cables, felting, lace, stranded colour and intarsia.