Step-by-step Knitting Workbook
Ref:
009187873X
AuthorDebbie Bliss
Debbie Bliss is one of today's best-known knitwear designers. With a string of bestselling titles to her name, she regularly tours the US, Canada and other countries, giving lectures and doing workshops. In the UK she is the knitting editor of a leading women's magazine, she designs for Rowan yarns, and has her own shop is Islington, north London, where she also takes knitting courses. Debbie lives in London with her husband and two children.
SummaryMore and more people are discovering the pleasures of knitting. Yet many of today's new fans have not had the same opportunity as previous generations to learn the necessary techniques. There could be no better guide than Debbie Bliss, highly successful knitwear designer and author of numerous bestselling books.In Step-by-step Knitting Workbook Debbie provides a guide not only to basic techniques - casting on and successful finishing, for example - but also pinpoints the key features of her successful designs taking knitters through them step-by-step. A basic guide to how to knit, accompanied by step-by-step illustrations and photographs, is followed by chapters covering the techniques Debbie views as essential to creating stylish knitwear. These range from the use of simple garment shapes to colour work such as Fair Isle and intarsia, as well as finishing touches of embroidery and beading. Step-by-step colour illustrations demonstrate each technique and over 20 wonderful projects allow the knitter to practise and perfect their skill. As a guide to how to knit, and an insight into the secrets of a highly successful designer, this book is invaluable.
A clear guide to all the knitting techniques needed to create fabulous designsStep-by-step illustrationsIncludes 20 irresistible projects, from simple sweaters and cardigans for children and adults to throws, cushions and other accessoriesDebbie Bliss is one of the world's bestselling knitwear designers
No of pages128pp
FormatBC Paperback
PublisherEbury Press
ISBN009187873X
EAN9780091878733
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