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One-Skein Wonders: Yarn-Shop Favorites from Coast to Coast (Paperback)

by Judith Durant (Editor)

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC; 1 edition (Oct 2 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1580176453
ISBN-13: 978-1580176453
Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 20.3 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 363 g

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If the cold weather has you excited to stay inside, this is the book for you. -Tulsa World, Tulsa, OK Reads like an atlas of quirky yarn shops from all across the land. -Associated Press, Syndicated Article Start something and finish it immediately. Judith Durant put 101 quick patterns in her book [One-Skein Wonders]. Metro West Daily News, Framingham, Mass. Divided by fiber weight, the chapters tell you exactly what local yarn shop owners around the country think you should do when you have just one ball to knit. -- Yarn Market News

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There are lonely, single skeins of yarn in every knitters closet casualties of projects discarded in mid-row, single balls of luscious alpaca or cashmere that was too expensive to buy more than one, the leftovers from long-completed projects. Wherever they came from, those single skeins are a minor source of guilt for knitters everywhere. They really should be used, but for what? Here are 101 original and charming solutions to the perpetual one-skein problem. Contributed by yarn shops across the country, there are hats, mittens, scarves, bags, socks, ponchos, baby sweaters, belts, headbands, a cell phone carrier, and even a tea cozy and a set of coasters for the home. A scrapbook of tastes and styles that celebrates the ingenuity of knitters nationwide, this is a collection with appeal for every type of stitcher. With patterns arranged by yarn weight, knitters will easily find broad ranges of possibilities for their particular yarn orphans. Each pattern includes the names of the contributing yarn shop and the designer, and a black-and-white image of the completed project. 101 small, sweet patterns enough to take care of the single skeins in everyones collection and prove once and for all that there is no such thing as leftover yarn!

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4.0 out of 5 stars The book that started the series, one of the best small project books out there, Sep 25 2009

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

With all due respect to the other reviewer, I don't understand the complaint about this being a book predominated by expensive yarns. There is about a dozen project done with handpainted yarns and Noro yarns that score a little bit higher than those at your typical Michael's or Wal-Mart, but the book has a lot of patterns for moderately priced yarns. And the book is particularly budget conscious when one considers that it helps you make the most of small amounts of yarn.

The one thing you could say is that it cheats a bit by sometimes using very big skeins (200g or 250g don't really count as one skein in my mind because they are 4 or 5 times the size of the ubiquitous 50g ball). But it does stick by the one skein promise.

All in all the book contains 101 patterns. They aren't terribly sophisticated but range from baby cardigans to hats, cell phone covers, headbands, small shawls, a belt, bags, mittens, baby booties, small felted pouches and scarves. There is even a bath set and at least three pairs of socks. So I think the range of patterns make this one of the best books on knitting gifts as well, as most of them are quick projects. There is also a small technical section that provides reminders on how to make a knitted cast on, a provisional cast on, casting off, the kitchener stitch, but not much else. So whoever picked the contents of this section must have had a strange idea of what the technical skill of the average reader would be.

The book's presentation is a bit unusual in that the photos are all in the middle, and a double page spread will contain about 8 photos from 8 different projects. One realises this is a cost saving measure. Some of the photos for the larger projects aren't as illustrative as they should be, but given the number of different patterns, maybe this is to be expected. The actual patterns are put together in sections according to gauge groups: Bulky, Heavy Worsted (Arans anyone? hello, CYCA!), Worsted mohairs, worsted weight, sport weight, fingering weight, and novelty yarns. I enjoyed this presentation very much, because it actually makes it easy to pinpoint which patterns will be suitable for this one odd ball of yarn that has been collecting dust in your closet. Identify the weight of that yarn and just look up which patterns are suitable in just a few turn of the pages. Not only that, but the margin next to each patterns is a monochrome rendition of the pattern's photo that again helps link the pattern to the photo. That was a clever bit of editing.

I won't name a favourite pattern, I like most of them equally. I don't have a least favourite, there's about 20 patterns I wouldn't knit even if it was to save the craft. Nothing really stands out as a major fugly. The closest I came to that was a (to me) nauseating colourway of hand-dyed yarn and that's really no fault of the design.

Finally, I liked the "Designer One-skein Wonders" more than this one, but all three (with Luxury One-skein Wonders) are outstanding in the knitted gifts category. I'm happy I own all three.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Okay if You're a Yarn Elitist, Feb 8 2009

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This book is okay for its content but I was disappointed when I got it. The projects certainly match the title, but I found a lot of the yarns hard to find locally and expensive. The pictures weren't with the patterns but all in a group at the beginning of the book so you have to keep turning back. This is probably a good pattern book for those who want to experiment with luxury items, but is definitely not for the newbie or the practical hobbyist.

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