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“The introduction is a manual in itself, covering the basics in such detail that beginners won’t miss a trick.” -- Vogue Knitting, Spring/Summer 2004
“[Beverly Galeskas] is simply the best resource for felting today . . . This is a beautiful – and useful – guidebook.” -- Knitter’s Review
Book Description
Felt has existed for thousands of years. Read the first page
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
How to do Felted Knits in your washing machine,
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Ce commentaire est de: Felted Knits (Paperback)
There has been a huge craze for felted knitting, a process where you knit a loose garment and then wash it in the washing machine to shrink and thicken the fabric. Things that are typically felted are clogs or slippers, tote bags and vests, but you can do a lot more.Bev Galeskas has some great instructions here, including an invaluable gauge check. You knit a square of a particular gauge, mark it with thread and then wash according to instructions. The thread marks the shrinkage and tells you how to adjust your knitting to get the felt to result in the size you desire. There are also instructions for how to leave button holes or eyelets in the knitting so they don't close up, what yarns work well and which ones don't, how to felt in a front-loading washing machine (hint: it has to be the kind that lets you stop and open the door mid-cycle. My American front-loader does allow this but my European one did not. If you have the kind that locks during the cycle, Bev suggests you find a friend with a toploader and borrow their machine!) The only small disappointment was that a pattern for felted clogs was not included. But there is a pattern for "ballet slippers" which do look something like clogs, so I suppose they can be sized up for adults, even men. Just don't CALL them ballet slippers. Felted clogs are very popular to make for gifts and to keep by the door as shoe-replacements to save your floors and carpets from wear and tear.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
save your money,
By "allison_in_santa_monica" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Felted Knits (Paperback)
I own about 10 knitting books, and this one is the first one with which I am disappointed. Many of the patterns in here are quite intuitive; meaning, that one probably doesn't need a book to be able to figure out how to knit them. Books with felting patterns should highlight patterns that are difficult to create. Otherwise, what's the point of buying a book? The challenges of felting are in determining scale and ratio, and anticipating shrinkage when you felt the item. None of these patterns are particularly interesting or nice-looking.Given its 2003 press date, I would have liked to see more fashionable items like a bucket hat, a striped felted bag with closure, and more useful household items, like a fruit bowl. Instead, the patterns include a bowler hat, felted mittens, dowdy looking slippers and several simple square bags. Its saving grace is a nice-looking felted rug, but I could have probably figured that one out as well. Isn't it just a rectangle?
3.0 out of 5 stars
A good first book and reference,
By Pat "@geminidream.ca" (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Felted Knits (Paperback)
When I got this book, I was looking for some in-depth information on felting, and the author covered a lot of questions that I had come up against when looking just at single patterns. There's a good variety of projects and yarns used, and the colour photos are quite lovely; it's very nice to find a book that doesn't just feature one brand of yarn. I agree with previous reviews that there's not a lot of 'new' patterns, but there's a good range of different things that are felt-tested. I don't agree that the patterns are easy to follow though - the sidebars that give the project requirements are not clearly laid out, and often two or three projects are mixed in together; as well, some of the more structured projects (slippers, tea cozy) seem to have unnecessarily complex instructions for what one would think would be a fairly simple item. Overall, I would recommend the book for its comprehensiveness, but I wouldn't put it at the top of the list...
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