- Paperback: 126 pages
- Publisher: Martingale & Company Inc.; illustrated edition edition (July 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1564773132
- ISBN-13: 978-1564773135
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.1 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,660,422 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Interweave Knits, Fall 2000 issue
Cynthia Wise empowers knitters by revealing that substituting yarns is a very simple process...a friendly, easy-to-follow guide.
Book Description
Show off your individual style with these distinctive sweaters and accessories that you can personalize to fit your taste, climate, and budget! The 18 gorgeous patterns presented offer innovative, easy ways to substitute your favorite yarns in the same pattern to achieve strikingly different results.
Once you learn these simple techniques for substituting your choice of yarns, you'll see how easy it is to add maximum flexibility to your knitting. For example, you can create a warm-as-toast wool vest for winter and a cool cotton vest for summer--and use the same vest pattern to knit both! Learn how to make your own yarn and design choices with:
· 18 luxurious knitwear designs, such as an Inca Jewel pullover, cozy cable-knit cardigan, and breezy short-sleeved pullover, plus beautiful scarves, socks, and purses
· Classic knitting patterns, from cable and Cat's Eye's shapes to elaborate intertwining and eyelet designs
· Ample advice on choosing the right yarns
Whether you're looking to meet your personal warmth factor, your favorite fiber factor, or even your budget factor, you'll find ideas galore for creating unique, fashionable sweaters and accessories that showcase your individual style.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Title is deceptive,
By Adam James (Cape Cod) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Knit It Your Way: Change the Yarn to Suit Your Style (Paperback)
For years I've been trying to alter knitting patterns to accommodate different types, sizes of yarn. The only way I knew how to do this was by hours of experimental "swatch" knitting, comparing stitches, measuring, etc. So, when I saw the book "Knit it Your Way: Change the Yarn to Suit Your Style" advertised, I became very excited - at last, I thought, charts, explanations, a Method that would eliminate all that "swatching." When the book arrived I could hardly wait to start reading. I quickly realized the only "Method" that was mentioned was - you guessed it - "swatching." After a few pages talking about her experience with hours and hours of knitting swatches, the author then regales us with many photos of herself in self-knit clothing. It is not something that I would even pass along to a beginning knitter. The title of this book completely misrepresents its contents.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Major Disappointment,
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This review is from: Knit It Your Way: Change the Yarn to Suit Your Style (Paperback)
What a disappointment! This is a book based on the empty promise that the author is going to show some new way to solve the age old knitter's dilemma of yarn substitutions and how to make them. There is nothing new in this book; she solves yarn substitutions the way we all do and have been doing for a million years; swatch, swatch, swatch. This information is available from magazines, books, classes and other knitters!She does show examples of sweaters knitted in two different weights of yarn, and for the novice knitter I suppose this could be interesting, and possibly informative. However, for any knitter who has made even one successful yarn substitution, I feel this book is an expensive retelling of an old tale. I would strongly suggest that anyone thinking about purchasing this book first seek out a copy to look through.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Could use some more yarn varieties for comparison,
By A Customer
This review is from: Knit It Your Way: Change the Yarn to Suit Your Style (Paperback)
This is not as bad a book as some reviewers have made it out to be. Reading it, I got the sense that this author was NOT someone who gets all the yarn she wants from doing work for the yarn companies, but instead has to actually BUY her yarn, like most of us. The styles were basic, but nice, and were shown as completed garments in both yarn choices. Many pattern books show other colorways and yarns, but only as pattern swatches. It is a much cheaper book than "Simply Beautiful Sweaters" which was totally about $$$$$ yarn. It would have been nice to see more closeups of the yarns that were used, so it would be a little easier to substitute what you already have. I also thought her yarns, even her nicer ones, did not look all that different in photos from some of the rock-bottom discount yarns available--the cover photo really suffered in this regard. Perhaps the next printing will have some of these issues addressed. It still is a pretty good book.
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