Product Description

Custom handbags and handcrafted purses are hotter than ever - bags have become the trendy way to show off personal style. As knitters move away from the scarf, bags are replacing them as the most popular small project to make. Whether knitted, crocheted, or felted, there are endless ways to personalize and customize a bag.From a tiny pouch to carry an iPod to a generous tote based on nineteenth-century carpet bags to a felted messenger-style bag to a delicate purse with handles made of bracelets, knitters and crocheters will find loads of practical projects and inventive inspiration from twenty top knitwear designers. Each project features gorgeous photographs and step-by-step instructions, and all techniques are explained in easy-to-understand detail.In addition to 22 innovative patterns, the Design Notebook chapter examines the essence of the knitted bag and how to create a bag of your own. You can learn ways to give a knitted or crocheted bag shape, depth, stability, handles, closures, and fasteners.Whether you're an avid bag knitter (or crocheter) or you're creating one for the first time, "Bag Style" has all the inspiration, technique, and details you need.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22259 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Pam Allen is the editor in chief of Interweave Knits and is an avid knitter and knitwear designer. She is the author of Knitting for Dummies and Scarf Style. This is her third collaboration with Ann Budd in the Style series, following Wrap Style and Lace Style. Ann Budd is a book editor for Interweave Press and the former managing editor of Interweave Knits. She is the author of The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns, The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns, and Getting Started Knitting Socks.

Customer Reviews

Can't wait to get started!
I have just bought this and am SO looking forward to getting started on my first project from it. The range of styles is great - not like some other books which seem to be a variation on just one or two shapes - and most of the finished articles actually look like something you'd happy to be seen with, in some gorgeous colour schemes. (Ok, there are a couple of dodgy items, but I suppose they have to cater to all tastes!) This book would not be suitable for a beginner - I think that many of these projects will challenge my skills as an intermediate knitter, with felting, use of circular needles and cable-type stitches, but they look as if they are explained clearly enough for me to be able to work it out.

The yarn suggested is American, which might put some people off, but they not only tell you what they used, but also the percentages of wool, linen and whatever in it, so I found it quite easy to find an equivalent in my haberdashers.

As I think you may have realised by now, I'm very happy with my purchase!

Bag style
An enticing book full of delicious patterns with good clear instructions. Something for every level of knitter.
It's not often one comes across a book where almost every pattern appeals. I will become a true bag lady when I have finished with this book,