Description
| Product ID: | 9781612126623 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques |
| Subtitle: | Multicolor Yarns, Plain and Textured Stripes, Entrelac and Double Knitting, Stranding and Intarsia, Mosaic and Shadow Knitting, 150 Color Patterns |
| Authors: | Author: Margaret Radcliffe |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Knitting and crochet, Knitting & crochet |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The definitive guide to knitting with more than one color, featuring in-depth photographic instruction for 150 techniques, from stripes to intarsia. Now in paperback! Imagine a softly striped crib blanket knit in the comforting colors of the nursery. Or a sophisticated cashmere wrap featuring rich jewel tones that set off a favorite black dress. Knitting teacher and author Margaret Radcliffe presents a world of color techniques in a single comprehensive reference that you’ll consult every time two or more yarn colors are in play. Stitchers of every ability level will love the color-combining methods and professional secrets revealed in The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques. Multicolor knitting techniques are explained with step-by-step illustrations and photographs accompanied by instructive text. Complete chapters on stripes, stitch effects, succeeding with multicolor yarns, stranded knitting, and intarsia cover the theory and how-to behind each method and offer creative solutions for handling tangled yarn, estimating yarn quantities of each color, holding on to all those ends, and employing stunning finishing techniques. A final chapter describes more unusual techniques, such as helix, shadow, mosaic, and modular knitting. |
| Imprint Name: | Storey Publishing LLC |
| Publisher Name: | Workman Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-07-28 |