Color

Review: Knitting with Two Colors

by --Deb 01.09.2012
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You can almost always be confident, when ordering a book from Schoolhouse Press, that you’re going to get something thorough, detailed, and full of creative, useful ideas–and this book is no exception.

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Review: Alice Starmore’s Charts for Color Knitting

by --Deb 10.20.2011
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This is a treasure-trove of charts. Collected by origin (Norway, Russian, Celtic, Birds & Flowers, and so on), it doesn’t so much as tell you what to do with them as give them to you to do whatever you wish. You can knit with them, embroider, stencil, mosaic … anything you like. The possibilities are endless.

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Review: Two New e-Mags from Interweave Press

by --Deb 06.13.2011
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Title: EntreKnits: Knitting Takes Shape Published by: Interweave Press, 2011 Type: E-Magazine From the publisher: EntreKnits explores unique tips and techniques for entrelac, mitered, and modular knitting with fun patterns, innovative and educational tutorials, inspirational videos, and up-close image galleries. EntreKnits features 6 patterns, from a quick-to-knit bracelet to practice your skills, to an elaborate [...]

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Review: Fearless Fair Isle Knitting

by --Deb 02.15.2011
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The In-Depth Look: Honestly, I’m not afraid of Fair Isle (as a place or a technique), but I know that many people are. It looks intimidating, after all, especially if you’ve never tried it before. The author knows this and starts the book by saying, “Take a deep breath and repeat after me: ‘Fair Isle [...]

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Review: Knitter’s Guide to Hand-Dyed and Variegated Yarn

by --Deb 11.19.2010
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You all know Lorna of course, so I don’t know how much I need to say about … Wait, what? You don’t know her? Yes, of course you do! You’ve heard of Lorna’s Laces yarns, right? Yes. THAT Lorna. So, when I tell you this book is all about choosing and using multi-colored yarns, you know she knows what she’s talking about.

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Review: Mastering Color Knitting

by --Deb 11.14.2010
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This is like the other half of her “Color Knitting the Easy Way.” That book focused on things like stripes and slipped-stitches to add color to your knitting. This one is all about stranded, intarsia, and double-knitting

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Review: Wild Color

by --Deb 11.11.2010
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From the Preface: “The revised edition of Wild Color brings the craft of natural dyeing into the 21st century and is the result of over three decades of experience with natural dyes. … Today, when concern for the environment and conservation of the resources of the natural world are of paramount importance, it is vital that we look towards the future and consider their environmental and human impact of our activities.”

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Review: Get Spun

by --Deb 05.05.2010
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A few years ago, when novelty yarn was all the rage, it didn’t appeal to me. So, when I received this review copy, I wasn’t expecting to actually like the book. I figured it would be a good book, since Interweave’s usually are, but I didn’t expect it to be a book I would get much out of. Yes, well, where do we keep the crow? Because this book is full of lots of interesting detail, even for a plain-vanilla kind of spinner like me.

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Review: Color Knitting the Easy Way

by --Deb 04.26.2010
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Here’s the first thing you need to know about this book–there are lots of books out there that examine color knitting, but this one focuses on color knitting using only ONE color at a time.

That’s right. Not intarsia. Not fair isle. Instead, this book is about adding color to your knitting with stripes and slip stitches.

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Review: Natural Dyeing

by --Deb 03.18.2010
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So many valuable nuggets of information are lost every day. (Did you know the first, best, true-red dye came from insects?) There are so many things my grandmother, great-grandmother, and so on knew to do but that have been forgotten by my generation, and this book is one way to claim some of them back again. With this book, if I had to, I could create my own green dye, or blue, or yellow, or red, without having to depend on anyone else to mix a batch of chemicals.

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Review: Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques

by --Deb 01.24.2010
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Entrelac. Stranded. Intarsia. Stripes. Two-sided. There are so many ways to play with color while you knit, but… there are so MANY ways to add different colors to your knitting. What’s a knitter to do?

Run, don’t walk, to find a copy of this book.

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Review: The New Stranded Colorwork

by --Deb 10.04.2009
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The author of this colorful book starts by saying, “I have always found colorwork irresistible. Charming vintage knitting patterns with pony-tailed ladies sipping their apres-ski toddies live in my knitter’s heart right next to the memory of my first baby bootie and the day I finally executed a tubular cast on … Knitting of all stripes has at one time or other held my attention, but I always seem to wander back home to colorwork.”

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Review: Alice Starmore’s Book of Fair Isle Knitting

by --Deb 09.02.2009
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If you’ve wondered about this book, if you’ve tried to find a copy any time in the last fifteen years or so, now is your chance to see what all the fuss about. Because thanks to Dover Publications, a reprint of this masterpiece is now available to the public for less than $25.

Did I say masterpiece? Why, yes, I did! This woman’s eye for color is amazing. Her color combinations for the sweaters and even just for the color sample swatches is unerring, but that alone is not why this is such a great book.

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Review: Colorwork Stitches

by --Deb 04.29.2009
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It’s hard, really, to write a review for a book of stitch patterns, even when they’re good. This one, the latest in Interweave Press’s series, covers Colorwork–patterns that use two or more colors to make a design for your knitting.

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