Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #113890 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

BEWARE
this is exactly the same as her other book - New Knits: 20 Knitting Projects with a Contemporary Twist... right down to the same pictures/layout/page numbers... we have bought both and i am stunned to find that they are only different covers..

be warned, the books are good per se, but do not buy both..

Bland and boring
I was really unimpressed with this book. Good news first: The patterns are well written and the information provided throughout the book is very useful. It is a good starting point for ideas, such as knitting with materials other than yarn (e.g. plastic, twine, wire, fabric, etc...). But there is not a single pattern that I will be making and I cannot imagine how this collection was put together. Seriously, would you honestly want to spend your time and effort knitting a lining to go into a hanging basket and get covered in dirt & soaked with water? Or knitting an intricate cable & bobble cover for your armchair?! Props to you if that's your kind of thing but it is just not my taste at all. I suppose the patchwork blanket is a good idea for using up odd balls of yarn, but it's just a bunch of knitted squares sewn together and it didn't take a lot of imagination to create that design. The only pattern that I really liked was the 'barcode' dog jumper and I don't have a dog :(

OH DEAR!
What a disappointment --won,t be keeping this one --having been impressed with her crochet books I bought this one expecting the same but it is so dull --I MEAN -- KNITTED HANGING BASKET LINERS -- I DON,T THINK SO -- not a single item I would think of doing --. definitely one to give a miss.