Product Description

Sally Melville presents stylish knits from leftover wool, using simple techniques and patterns to combine diverse colours, wools and weights to create garments. This text presents 26 complete sweater, vest and jacket patterns for men, women and children - there's even a dog coat.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2132716 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

A fantastic resource - BUY IT!!!
I just received this book and I cannot say enough about it. It is wonderful. She discusses color, color wheels, color intensity, and how to choose colors that will work together well in a sweater. That discussion alone is worth the price of the book. She suggests tricks, including using a kind of kalidescope to see how colors will look with each other.

She also uses dyes on one sweater, and swatches patterned like the sweater (which she previously knit as UGLY and ill-colored as possible) to demonstrate how dyes will make the colors harmonious and beautiful. She uses a number or different dyes and they all produce beautiful results.

The sweaters are gorgeous! Some are garter stitch, some are slip stitch, and some are stitched after knitting, with patterns,like carpets or geometric patterns. The patterns are classic and timeless. I can't wait to knit these sweaters.

Still looking for ways to use odd balls of yarn...
I would have bought this book on the strength of the customer reviews so far alone, but thought I'd look at it first. I'm glad I did. Unlike the rapturous reader who says s/he'd knit any sweater in the book, I didn't find anything I'd knit. First off, Melville favors techniques that don't look knitted. She likes slip stitch color knitting, woven stitch (a/k/a linen stitch), and a technique for knitting a piece and then using that knitting as a warp for weaving in colors of yarn with a darning needles. The many assurances of how FAST this really is to do make me suspicious--I prefer to knit, not weave with a darning needle. An interesting technique, but it nor any of the others (also a lot of garter stitch) are looks I'm after. I would really appreciate a book on using odd balls--but also work on accepting the fact that the pattern/yarn/dye lot event is a rare thing indeed, and all those extra balls of yarn come in handy for color work, darning, strips in small projects...but it will never all be used up!

great
I am a lousy knitter but with this book I have started to experiment with different yarns and have produced wearable things even my 15 year old daughter likes them! Roo