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Custom Knits: Unleash Your Inner Designer with Top-Down and Improvisational Techniques (Hardcover)

by Wendy Bernard (Author), Kimball Hall (Photographer)

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Hardcover: 168 pages
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang (Sep 1 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1584797134
ISBN-13: 978-1584797135
Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 22.1 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 930 g

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Along with being pleasurable and satisfying, knitting can sometimes be frustrating: the turtleneck that looked so fabulous on the model is too bulky for your body, or the cardigan you spent countless hours on just doesn’t fit right. Herein lies the beauty of Custom Knits, which teaches knitters how to use improvisational techniques to achieve spectacular results—and to unleash their inner designers.

Wendy Bernard, creator of the popular blog Knit and Tonic, provides 25 original designs for sweaters of nearly every type, plus variations, most knitted in one piece starting at the top, a method that allows you to try on as you go, alter as desired, and essentially design on the fly. “Make It Your Own” prompts in each pattern suggest easy alterations to suit your style and body type. And an in-depth reference section teaches how to alter key sweater elements, for example, change a crewneck to a V-neck, add sleeves to a vest, and much more. For the truly adventurous, the book concludes with guidelines for knitting sweaters with no pattern at all.

Bernard’s friendly writing style and photographer Kimball Hall’s lively images create an inviting book of beautiful designs and key techniques that a knitter can use to customize nearly every garment she knits from now on.

About the Author

Wendy Bernard’s work has been featured in the online pages of Knitty and Stitch Diva Studios, in the book No Sheep for You, and in Interweave Knits and Knitscene magazines. She lives in Thousand Oaks, California.

Kimball Hall is a Los Angeles–based photographer with 25 years of editorial and advertising experience. Among his clients are Four Seasons Hotel, American Express, and Bank of America.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A surprisingly good book..., Feb 5 2009

By	Hayley Cann (Qu�bec, Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

I have to say that I never had a huge interest for all things top down. So I was skeptical when I received this book. I have changed my mind since.

I have about a half dozen of books that claim to allow the reader to make their own designs. Most of them only have a few passing words on how it is you're supposed to go from following the design to making your own. But not this one: the author could not be clearer in how the designs are achieved and how you can modify the patters. She also gives the reader instructions on how to design a top down pattern from scratch, based on the type of sleeves and yoke.

I have to admit that the cover (a lace up front circular yoke sweater) did not let me hope for the best with this book. After perusing the book, I have to admit that half of the designs are nice, and the others just a bit too "quirky" for me. But the ones that are nice are very nice, there is one great cable short sleeved sweater that is just beautiful and a saddle shoulder sweater that is almost worth the price of the book on its own. There are also, even in the designs I didn't like, enough basic designs with enough instruction to modify them so that even if you do not like the details of the design, they can work as a top-down template for your a top down pattern.

There is only one negative comments about this book and it is that including a "top-down scarf" is just a bit ridiculous. (However the scarf is gorgeous). Please, knitting readers are usually a little bit smarter than this.

Still a worthy buy. Very good book.

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