The elegant styling and exquisite detail of traditional fisherman's knits are brought to life in Alice Starmore's 20 original sweater designs for men, women, and children.
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Alice Starmore is a leading knitwear designer and the author of books that include The Celtic Collection and Celtic Needlepoint.
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By Suzanne
Format:Paperback
Alice Starmore is the authority when it comes to Aran knitting and this book demonstrates that. The pictures are gorgeous and the directions for the projects are well done. So, get inspired and make one of these! I have just started an Alice Starmore project and all I can say is that I am thoroughly enjoying it and find rather addicting. Her directions and charts are very clear and easy to follow. Her designs are truly works of art!
By Aileen Grant
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I love Alice Starmore's books. She gives you knowledge as well as unique patterns to knit up. JUST what I was looking for. Thank you for your detail Alice.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Joanna Daneman
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Format:Paperback
Alice Starmore is a knit designer who is reknown for her colorwork (Fairisle type--she hails from Lerwick, Scotland) and for her textured Aran and Guernsey-style work. Here she creates some glorious textured sweaters in chapters named after lands where fisherfolk live, work and yes, knit their characteristic designs. The chapters include:
1. Scotland
2. England
3. Ireland (including the Aran Isles)
4. Points North, South and East (including Breton, Norway and the Baltic lands and the Faroes)
5. The New World (hey, that's US!! Nova Scotia, Cape Cod, and more.)
The sweaters range from the thickly cabled true Aran style (the gorgeous Innishmore is incredibly deep and intricate) to colorwork such as a combination of textures and pattern characteristic of Estonian knitting. There is also an adorable child's sweater modeled after a Breton sailor's striped jersey.
This is one of Starmore's most useful books. The sweaters could be worn by men, children, fashionable women, hikers, you name it. If you love TEXTURE, you will adore this, but there is also color. In addition to the designs I just mentioned, I love the charming "Nova Scotia" featuring scallop shells in a knit-purl design.
This is one of my favorite Starmore books.
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Seems a very good knitting pattern book
I like the patterns, seems to be well explained. I won't make anything from it before at least a month though. Will know more at that time.
Published 17 months ago by Mireille
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The Catch of the Day!
I am new to Aran kniting. The detailed, close up pictures of the sweaters show very clearly how the stitches should appear. Read more
Published on Feb 18 2002 by Virginia L. Tubbs
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Possibly Alice Starmore's best book.
I can't praise this wonderful book enough. Every adult sweater in this collection is a treasure!
Starmore's marvelous book focuses on single-color, richly textured sweaters... Read more
Published on Jan 15 2002
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Wonderful patterns and pictures
This is a book that just makes you itch to knit. I had not knit a sweater in the round until I started working with this book, and I unerstand now why traditional knitters would... Read more
Published on July 27 2001 by Martha E. Nelson
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THE PICTURES ALONE WILL REDEEM YOU...
...All right, I admit it, I don't know a damned thing about knitting sweaters...but I was shelving on the holiday-season overnight crew at the bookstore where I work last night,... Read more
Published on Dec 1 1999 by Scott Lahti
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