I would have loved it as a kid and it makes me smile now, too.
They say in their introduction that they started with the questions: “What would you want to make over a weekend, if you could really just spend a few days relaxing and knitting? What would you want to wear on an autumn weekend away?”
This book is filled with designs–mostly for women, but for men, too–that can be knitted and worn regularly, without fuss.
The author says, “I think of this book as a knitter’s approach to the seven summits. It is proverbial mountain climbing for lace knitters who are adventurous; delighted by the basics, yet yearning for more.”
The book gives you basic cable instructions, and then basic patterns for simple cables, rules on tweaking them, and how to do sharp angles or gentle curves.
The projects are all stylish–not always a word you think of when describing things for soft, cuddly, little people.
How can you resist all this cuteness? (Hint: You can’t; don’t even try.)
It’s about time, frankly, that someone put together a book this good, this thorough, and this useful for pattern writing.
It’s true that the OUTLANDER series is a huge hit–and why not? A sexy time-travel romance with Highland flair and great knitwear … what’s not to love?
Oh, Ann Budd, never change. You and your crack team of designer friends/accomplices never cease to amaze.
