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Review: Reversible Knitting

by --Deb 04.16.2010
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This creative book takes everything you know about knitting and turns it upside down and inside out.

Am I exaggerating? Maybe a little bit, but not as much as you might expect. Starting with the cover sweater which can be worn right-side up, upside-down, inside-out, this book makes you look at your knitting a little differently.

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Review: Knitted Gifts

by --Deb 08.09.2009
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One of the things I’m enjoying most about this gig of writing book reviews is having a chance to look through books just like this. As I flipped through for the first time, I kept smiling and saying, “Ooh,” “Pretty,” “Nice!” from one pattern to the next.

There are a lot of them, too. I count 37 patterns, and that’s not separating out the ones that are listed as sets, like the hat/mitten set on the cover. Thirty-seven patterns. That’s huge!

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Review: Handknit Holidays

by --Deb 12.01.2008
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What a NICE book. You might think, with the title “Handknit Holidays,” that’s its main purpose is for making holiday gifts, but it’s not. It’s about the holidays. Period. Honestly, there’s almost nothing bad to be said about this book. It’s beautiful. The patterns are creative and inspired. The photos are lovely and evocative but also give a good look at the knitted items (no weird camoflauge). There is a complete index so you can find patterns when you need to. It’s just lovely.

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Review: Knitting Classic Style

by --Deb 11.07.2008
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The author says in the introduction, “For me, both fashion and knitting serve a common purpose–the opportunity for creative, wearable self-expression–and it was in that spirit that I created this book.”

Job well done, is all I can say.

The patterns in this book are exactly what you’d expect from the title–stylish, and classic. Or, rather, inspired by the classic.

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Review: Color Style

by --Deb 10.03.2008
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I’ll confess that I mostly bought this book solely because I liked the cover sweater so much, but that I fully expected not to be that impressed with the rest of the book. I’d been disappointed with Lace Style, you see, which wasn’t terrible, but didn’t include anything that I would have wanted to knit. So, I was prepared to feel lukewarm about this one, all for the sake of that cover sweater.

Well, what a pleasant surprise. Out of the seventeen projects, there are fully seven sweaters and three accessory patterns that I would consider making, and four or five of them I really want to make. (Ironically, the cover sweater isn’t one of them. Go figure.)

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