Featuring four-colour photographs and instructional illustrations, this book contains instruction, inspiration, and various designs, from a fishnet skullcap to a lacy evening wrap. For knitters and new crocheter's exploring the hook, it features a discussion of tools, what the gauges mean, plus basic techniques and stitch patterns.

With 40 stylish patterns, this guide aims to show young knitters how to get started, how to make it fun and how to make the hip clothes they want. Step-by-step instructions illustrate every technique.

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 ...

Both a celebration of knitting and a book for practical information, this book is a collection of advice for the knitter. It examines essential truisms of knitting, with warnings, realities, and fantasies about the act of knitting and the people who do it. It includes information on everything from yarn needles, gauge, and knitting bag, and more.

Alden Amos is a legend and mentor to the growing handcraft community of spinning. He shares his deep knowledge of wheel mechanics, spinning fibres, wheel construction, and yarn, as well as a wealth of spinning history and traditions.

Contains step-by-step instructions and illustrations that explain how to make yarn from scratch using handspindles - simple tools used to turn wool into yarn. This manual includes instructions for five simple, appealing projects: a woven sleeve, a knitted bunny bag, a knitted baby hat, knitted finger-less mittens, and a crocheted hat.

Knitting finally takes its rightful place on the spectrum of personal obsessions, alongside golfing, fishing, and gardening. The tangled life of the knitter is the subject of inspired nuttiness in these 300 tongue-in-cheek meditations from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee.

The popular aruthor of Stitch 'n Bitch presents fifty hip, funky, and fabulous new patterns for contemporary knitters, including the Om Yoga Mat Bag, the London Calling Union Jack Sweater, Polka Dot Tankini, the Boob Tube, and other innovative designs. Simultaneous.

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.

Features 25 projects, beginning with simple T-shirts and shrugs and then moving on to advanced jumpers, cardigans and skirts. This book includes a section covering skills necessary to create a garment, removing the guesswork from customising patterns. It provides tips and tricks for each project.

Choose from 200 beautiful block designs and learn different ways of joining them to make blankets and throws that are both functional and decorative. From Art Deco geometric patterns to traditional chequer-board stripes and elaborate motifs, discover new ways to combine colour, pattern and texture. Crochet is one of the oldest and most fascinating ways of creating a fabric out of yarn. Find out ..

Yarns are an integral part of any work done in the Textile field - whether it be weaving, sewing, dyeing or knitting. This book discusses yarns, their history, production methods, fibre content and the new advances that are constantly being made in the field. It also includes practical instruction on making your own threads and yarns.

Features more than 30 knitting and crochet projects that range in size, time and commitment, and experience level, providing both beginning and experienced knitters a variety of projects from which to choose. This work also includes several projects designed to make use of whatever you've got left over from other projects.

A paperbound edition of Deb Menz's classic guide to colour for handspinners is finally here! Menz offers a technically savvy yet accessible tutorial on working with colour and fibre. Included are in-depth discussions and illustrated demonstrations of immersion dycing, painting rovings, blending colors and fibers, and spinning and plying multicolored preparations. Whether you're a novice or an ...

This inspiring illustrated guide teaches experienced spinners to make beautiful designer yarns and encourages them to be more creative and have more fun with spinning. Handspun yarns can be white, lumpy, gray, and precise or they can be as colorful and deliciously textured as the spinner's imaginat

Leads readers step by step through various aspects of knitting and finishing, ensuring success even for relatively inexperienced knitters. This title showcases 26 stylish designs - scarves, stoles, cardigans, pullovers, vests, jackets, tops, and even a couple of totes.

Takes readers on a journey through the natural fibres - materials that can make an incredible difference, both in your knitting and in the health of our planet. From the animals and plants that produce the fibres to the artisans who work with them, this title offers a look at the world of natural knitting.

Describes and critiques various aspects of the land land of knitting - its people, native language, familiar phrases, strange beliefs, etiquette, and cultural customs.

They all may look alike but there are scores of different breeds of sheep in the world. This book looks at a hundred of them with special attention to the characteristics of the wool of each. Actual fleece locks are shown in photos and knitting, crochet, weaving and other techniques show the importance of using wool for the right purpose.