Presents top knitwear designers from the United States, Canada, Belgium, and Australia sharing their unique Christmas, Hanukah, and winter solstice gift-giving, decorating, dress-up projects, and a few favorite holiday traditions. This book provides a collection of a range of super-quick projects for the last-minute holiday rush.

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.

A collection of thirty knitted patterns that can be completed in a minimum of time features instructions for creating such classic gifts as baby booties and bonnets, as well as newer ideas including a tea cozy, a felted yoga mat bag, and floor cushions.

Expand your idea of what a wrap can be! Shawls, ponchos and capelets are all the rage because they look fabulous on everyone, no matter the occasion. Following in the footsteps of the extraordinarily popular Scarf Style, Wrap Style is a collection of 24 classic and contemporary wraps from 18 knitwear designers. The designs vary from simple to challenging and explore shape and silhouette ...

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.

In a world where sheep-based knitting is the norm, do you feel left out? Are you knitting for someone who won't wear wool? This how-to guide teaches you about non-wool yarns, focusing on plant fibers including cotton, linen, hemp, soy, bamboo, Tencel, rayon, the new synthetics, and more.

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

The title gives a big clue to what this book is about: sisterhood, sharing, crafting, giving, laughing. It's also about spinning yarn and making socks, glorious, zany, wildly colourful yarn for perfect fitting socks.

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

All across the world, people are knitting for peace. They call the work they do charity knitting. This work tells the stories of 28 knitting-for-peace endeavours, with smaller, more anecdotal stories shared in corresponding sidebars. It also offers practicial, hands-on information, including 15 patterns for easy-to-knit charity projects.

Provides information on bringing discipline to knitting and then using that discipline to create funky and hip projects that knitters want to wear, use, and give away with pride. Based on the popular Web site of the same name, this book offers information needed to become an accomplished knitter in terms of tips, techniques, and things to avoid.

Through 12 easy projects, from bouncy bean bags to a rolled edge pullover, this title teaches children of all ages how to knit. Photographs and step-by-step instructions show the basics: finger knitting; casting on and off; knit, purl and stocking stitches; knitting in the round and shaping.

The designs in 'Loop-d-Loop' (for women, men, children, and the home) are fresh, modern, and eclectic, especially appealing to young knitters who like to set tradition askew and claim knitting as their own.

Shadow knitting uses a simple technique of alternating rows of dark and light yarn to produce a subtle patterning that appears and disappears depending on the angle from which it's viewed. This book uncovers the mysteries of this technique, and includes step-by-step instructions on how to create your own designs.

Compiled by Vogue's acclaimed knitwear designer and teacher, this collection of 350 knitted edgings, borders and trims, runs the gamut of styles and offers something for all tastes, all drawn from the 'Vogue Knitting' archives.

These 21 classic, designer inspired styles are the perfect fit. Comfortable to wear, easy to pack and fun to create. Basic stitches, quality yarns and easy to do details add up to the style that distinguishes these knits as jackets. Real life knitting for women with real lives.

Just about anything can knit can be felted - that is, shrunk with heat and agitation to create a thicker, more durable fabric. The knitting goes fast with fat yarn on big needles, and felting is easy and fun, but learning how to make it all come together takes some skill. All explained in clear, easy to understand instructions.

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.

Provides knitters with designs of items suitable for women, children, babies, and the home. This book discusses patterns which include a patchwork jacket, felted mukluks, a Slavic stovetop hat, a tribal baby carrier, Fair Isle socks, Nordic star pullover, shibori neck wrap, felted gauntlets, a Mexican floor pillow, and Peruvian tunic.