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Modern silhouettes, sensuous textures, sumptuous yarns-Vogue Knitting provides everything you're looking for to lend superior style to your next project. Packed with more than50 projects by today's leading knitwear designers, this collection showcases beautiful knitwear for the contemporary knitter. By incorporating minimum shaping, simple stitches and decorative embellishments, each design is as stylish as it is quick to knit. From urban chic cool and casual, to country charm warm and comfy, there's something for every occasion and every season. And the practical way the instructions are organized will reassure knitters that they too can get the great results they see in the alluring photos.
"Excellent color photographs and never-fail directions...Never dated; always responsive to crafter needs and concerns."--Booklist
Never mind that the patterns here have been gathered from many previous issues of the 20-year-old Vogue Knitting. And it doesn't really make much difference that, in this collection of 50-plus "quick" projects, not one indicates how much time is required to complete the work. As always, the magazine has compiled a treasury of well-designed, mostly easy-to-fashion (as in Very Easy Very Vogue, 1999) wearables for women--plus a few for men and kids--with excellent color photographs and never-fail directions. After a first short chapter covering the basics (reading patterns, yarn selection, terms, gauge, and the like), copy is light and focuses primarily on the projects. Never dated; always responsive to crafter needs and concerns. Barbara Jacobs
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