Custom Knits: Unleash Your Inner Designer with Top-Down and Improvisational Techniques
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (802 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1584797134 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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
D. Boyken said Nice, Classy Designs. 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 personali. 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 sepa. a fabulous knitting primer plus gorgeous patterns, too 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 scra
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. 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.
And an in-depth reference section teaches how to alter key sweater elements, for example, change a crewneck to a V-neck, add sleeves to a vest, and much more. Make It Your Own” prompts in each pattern suggest easy alterations to suit your style and body type. For the truly adventurous, the book concludes with guidelines for knitting sweaters with no pattern at all. Bernard’s friendly writing style and photographer Kimball Hall’s lively images create an inviting book of beautiful designs and key techniques that a knitter can use to customize nearly every garment she knits from now on.. Along with being pleasurable and satisfying, knitting can sometimes be frustrating: the turtleneck that looked so fabulous on the model is too bulky for your body, or the cardigan you spent countless hours on just doesn’t fit right. 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, a