Custom Knits: Unleash Your Inner Designer with Top-Down and Improvisational Techniques
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1584797134 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Herein lies the beauty of Custom Knits, which teaches knitters how to use improvisational techniques to achieve spectacular resultsand to unleash their inner designers. Wendy Bernard, creator of the popular blog Knit and Tonic, provides 25 original designs for sweaters of nearly every type, plus variations, most knitted in one piece starting at the top, a method that allows you to try on as you go, alter as desired, and essentially design on the fly. Along with being pleasurable and satisfying, knitting can sometimes be frustrating: the turtleneck that looked so fabulou
Nice, Classy Designs D. Boyken Most of the book is women's sweater patterns. All of them are knit in one piece, most of them from the top down, which is by far one of my favorite methods-it makes it so much easier to try on for size, not to mention not needing seaming later.One of my favorite things is that each design comes with suggestions for things you can do to personalize it, and, the designs themselves? I think they're lovely. In fact, there's not a single one that I did NOT like, even if I'm not itching to pick up my needles and knit every single one of them.The final chapter is one of my favorites. It's titled "Unleash Your Inner Designer" and then br. Brandy Fortune said A fantastic new book. I have read Wendy's blog for years now and I had great expectations for this book. I was not let down. I adore this book. It is full of loads of patterns any women or young adult would want to knit. The best part is how each pattern has a "make it your own" section explaining how to modify the neck line, sleeve length or length. The book is separated into sections so you have several raglan top down sweaters, a few yoke, set-in sleeve and even a saddle neck sweater. The very back of the book explains how to modify and design your very own knits using existing patterns or just designing on the fly using your inspiration and creati. "a fabulous knitting primer plus gorgeous patterns, too" according to Julie Matthews. As a plus-sized, 50-year-old woman, I never dreamed this book could work for me. In fact, I didn't even want to waste my time looking at it! But one day I stumbled across Wendy Bernard's blog and discovered that this book was NOT designed for young, skinny women; the author wrote this book so that knitters can customize and even create from scratch patterns that ACTUALLY FIT. So I bought the book - and am thrilled.Yes, some of the patterns are not for me. But many of them are, and best of all, Bernard provides the techniques necessary to customize her designs just for my figure. I can take that gorgeous fair isle sweater on the f
Among his clients are Four Seasons Hotel, American Express, and Bank of America.. She lives in Thousand Oaks, California. Kimball Hall is a Los Angelesbased photographer with 25 years of editorial and advertising experience. About the AuthorWendy Bernard’s work has been featured in the online pages of Knitty and Stitch Diva Studios, in the book No Sheep for You, and in Interweave Knits and Knitscene magazines
Wendy Bernard’s work has been featured in the online pages of Knitty and Stitch Diva Studios, in the book No Sheep for You, and in Interweave Knits and Knitscene magazines. She lives in Thousand Oaks, California. Kimball Hall is a Los Angelesbased photographer with 25 years of editorial and advertising experience. Among his clients are Four Seasons Hotel, American Express, and Bank of America.