Lace Style - Softcover

Allen, Pam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596680288 ISBN 13: 9781596680289

Publisher: Interweave, 2007

Synopsis

With an emphasis on innovative designs that range from simple to complex, this collection of contemporary knitting projects includes garments and accessories for women. Featuring projects with a sense of style that will appeal to knitters of all ages, it includes designs for socks, hats, sweaters, dresses, and shrugs. A basic primer on knitting lace that is closely linked to the projects in the book includes information on how to knit lace, choosing yarn and needles, types of increases and decreases, reading charts, simple ways to achieve a lacy effect, ways to incorporate lace designs in knitting patterns, and information on blocking. Each pattern has detailed step-by-step instructions, lavish lifestyle photographs, and plenty of detail shots. Experienced knitters looking for inspiration and beginners trying lace knitting for the first time will find everything needed to knit lace with confidence.

About this title

About the Author

Pam Allen is the former editor-in-chief of Interweave Knits and the author of Knitting for Dummies, Lace Style, Scarf Style, and Wrap Style. Her designs have been published in many magazines and were featured in Knitting in America. She lives in Portland, Maine.

Ann Budd is the best-selling author of The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns> and The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns. She is also the author of Getting Started Knitting Socks, Interweave Presents Knitted Gifts, Knitting Green, and Simple Style, and coauthor of Bag Style, Color Style, Lace Style, and Wrap Style. She is a book editor and the former senior editor of Interweave Knits magazine. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

From Booklist

A lovely addition to Interweave's Style series, this collection of beautiful lace patterns will appeal to knitters interested in lacework regardless of skill level. Projects range in size and complexity--small to large, socks to sweaters. Unlike many pattern books that provide only one or two pictures of each project, projects in this collection of modern knits designed by 18 fiber artists are illustrated with multiple color pictures photographed from many angles, including several close-up images that highlight project details, giving readers a wonderful sense of what the garment looks like from all sides. In the "Design Notebook" section, the authors break down the components of lacework stitch by stitch, explaining how yarn overs and decrease combine to create holes of various sizes. Illustrations and photographs are useful for explaining concepts and techniques so readers can better understand the structure of the projects as well as design their own lace patterns. A useful reference for a technique that intimidates many knitters. Jennifer Palmer
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Edition details

• Publisher: Interweave
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1596680288
• ISBN 13: 9781596680289
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160