Hip graphic knits : unique patterns and techniques for adding stylish graphics to your knitted designs / by Rochelle Bourgault and Lisa B. Evans

Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 160 pages; Description: 160 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm. Series: Domestic arts for crafty girls. Subjects: Knitting --Patterns. Summary: 25 clever and unique graphic knitting patterns and designs for young knitters Graphic knits have a long history, and this type of knitting is quite popular although typically, the designs have been based on traditional old style motifs like snowflakes, leaves, and flowers. This book gives a growing, younger, experimental audience of knitters a great resource of stylish, contemporary graphics, and shows them how to integrate patterns into knitted sweaters, tanks, bags, hats, legwarmers, and more. The book will show how you can convert any design-an 8 ball, a palm tree, an Elvis, a heart with an arrow-into a knitting pattern, and translate it into a project. The book covers basic techniques, stripes, intarsia, fair isle, duplicate stitch, embroidery and embellishments, and includes a gallery of graphs for cool projects. 1 Kg.…