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.

Offering charts and plans for making infant to adult-sized projects, this unique book provides knitters with a complete resource of over 350 patterns for caps, tams, scarves, vests, sweaters, mittens, gloves, and socks that are written for multiple gauges to accommodate all weights of yarn from bulky to fingering. Also included are the basics of pattern design and alteration to allow for the ...

Is he sweater-worthy? Knit items are excellent gifts for men, but, they have to be given at the appropriate time. This book not only warns stitchers about appropriate project-to-relationship ratios, but also offers 22 of the smartest patterns available for men's clothing and accessories.

A guide to creating reversible waistcoats. It teaches you what you need to know - from how to flatter your figure with colour, pattern, and scale, to tips on piecing dressmaking fabrics.

A portrait of knitters, dyers and breeders of fibre-producing animals all over the United States, which includes 30 original patterns for adult and child-sized garments. In addition, there are features on locations, such as a school in Detroit where children learn to knit before they learn to read.

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.

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.

The book presents twenty original knitting projects for men's sweaters and accessories. Included is a variety of sweaters and vests and a few accessories, such as hats, mittens, scarves and slippers.

A book of easy-to-knit charted patterns featuring 12 sweaters made with one simple shape and method of construction. Working with a saddle-style construction as each garment's foundation, it allows the readers to create an assortment of unique sweaters for men, women and children. Each sweater features one or more innovative design variations.

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.

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.

Love those expensive, imported yarns that magically knit up into stripes, jacquard, and zigzag patterns? Yarns to Dye For offers you an easy, inexpensive, and fun way to dye your own self-patterning wool or natural-fiber yarns using commercially available dyes. No other book details this process. Then choose from more than 25 projects to create your own knitted socks, scarves, hats, vests, and ...

Created for knitters who want standard sweater patterns in a variety of sizes and gauges, as well as those who want a template from which to develop their own ideas.

Learn how to turn creamy untreated wool into sturdy, stylish, cosy Aran specialities - pullovers, cardigans, hats, mitts, shawls and jackets.

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.

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.

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.