Knitwear Design for Spinners and Knitters

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This book starts with a section for spinners looking at how best to spin yarn for a specific project. It then goes on to talk about things you need to consider when designing items for yourself and your friends. Throughout there are many photos of the techniques and points being talked about, using examples in all areas of knitting. There is then a (comprehensive!) chapter on ways to get round mistakes. After the general section, there are chapters on lace and colour work design, including talking through the real process of designing an actual piece.

Contents

Spinning for Knitting
Introduction
Choosing your fibre
Choosing your colour
Choosing your preparation
Choosing your spinning technique
Using Art yarns
A word about swatching

Knitwear Design for Spinners and Knitters
General approach
Amounts of yarn needed
Yarns and needle sizes
Starting to design
Designing a hat
Random bits and pieces including shoulders, edges etc
Finishing
Specifically sweater design
Dealing with disasters
Designing knitted lace projects
Taking a pattern from an old photograph
The design process - the story of a shrug
Designing Colourwork
Choosing colours
Designing a Fair Isle beanie
Hexagon Shrug pattern
Fair Isle Sampler hat pattern

eBook published in September 2012