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The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques

Multicolor Yarns, Plain and Textured Stripes, Entrelac and Double Knitting, Stranding and Intarsia, Mosaic and Shadow Knitting, 150 Color Patterns
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The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques by Margaret Radcliffe is a comprehensive handbook for knitters eager to master the art of colour work. It covers a wide range of techniques from stripes and stitch effects to stranded knitting and intarsia. Detailed step-by-step illustrations and photographs accompany clear instructions, making it accessible for all skill levels. The book also addresses practical challenges such as managing yarn tangles and estimating yarn quantities, and explores more advanced methods like helix, shadow, mosaic, and modular knitting.
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This guide is ideal for knitters of every ability who want to enhance their projects with expert colour techniques, including hobbyists and those seeking professional tips in multicolour knitting.

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The definitive guide to knitting with more than one color, featuring in-depth photographic instruction for 150 techniques, from stripes to intarsia.

The definitive guide to knitting with more than one colour, featuring in-depth photographic instruction for 150 techniques, from stripes to intarsia.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

Now in paperback! Imagine a softly striped crib blanket knit in the comforting colours of the nursery. Or a sophisticated cashmere wrap featuring rich jewel tones that set off a favourite black dress. Knitting teacher and author Margaret Radcliffe presents a world of colour techniques in a single comprehensive reference that you'll consult every time two or more yarn colours are in play.

Stitchers of every ability level will love the colour-combining methods and professional secrets revealed in The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques. Multicolour knitting techniques are explained with step-by-step illustrations and photographs accompanied by instructive text.

Complete chapters on stripes, stitch effects, succeeding with multicolour yarns, stranded knitting, and intarsia cover the theory and how-to behind each method and offer creative solutions for handling tangled yarn, estimating yarn quantities of each colour, holding on to all those ends, and employing stunning finishing techniques.

A final chapter describes more unusual techniques, such as helix, shadow, mosaic, and modular knitting.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781612126623

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 July 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Illustration: Full-color; photographs and il

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 214.0mm

Height: 274.0mm

Weight: 1020g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Margaret Radcliffe is the author of The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques, The Knowledgeable Knitter, and the bestsellers The Knitting Answer Book and Circular Knitting Workshop. She regularly teaches throughout the country about everything from beginner s basics to knitting design. She is particularly interested in promoting creativity and independence in all knitters and maintains the website www.maggiesrags.com.

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