The Best of Rowan: 50 Designer Knitting Patterns: Amazon.ca: Kaffe Fassett: Books

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Rowan designs appeal to the sophisticated knitter willing to put a good deal of time and money into creating striking garments. This collection of Rowan patterns includes sweaters from such well-known knitwear designers as Kaffe Fassett, Kim Hargreaves, Susan Duckworth, Sasha Kagan, Jean Moss, and Annabel Fox. Recommended for large public libraries.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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In this beautiful collection of 50 of the best patterns to come from the famous Rowan design company, you'll find luxurious garments from such designers as Kaffe Fassett, Annabel Fox, Kim Hargreaves, Jean Moss, Amanda Griffiths, Louisa Harding, and more. The Rowan photography is superlative, the step-by-step instructions are clear and easy to follow. An essential addition to any knitter's design library!

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Best of Rowan - The best in colour knitting, Dec 30 2009

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This review is from: The Best of Rowan: 50 Designer Knitting Patterns (Hardcover)

The Best of Rowan provides a wonderful selection of Kaffe Fassett classics plus designs by other leading knitwear designers. The book provides clear, easy instruction with excellent layout. Despite many of the yarns featured having been discontinued, Rowan provide substitutions on their website which means all the designs can be made using yarns produced today. An excellent buy for anyone interesting in intarsia knitting as well as plain colour work with superb pattern sequences.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful sweaters for advanced knitters, Feb 26 2003

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This review is from: The Best of Rowan: 50 Designer Knitting Patterns (Hardcover)

This is a beautiful book, however, it's mainly for advanced knitters. Most of the patterns have complicated colorwork requiring many, many colors (which is exactly why they're so beautiful). Only a few are textured, very very few are simple. Also, mostly they call for yarns that I don't believe Rowan makes any more. If you're comfortable with substitution, that's fine, but I wonder how difficult it would be with a pattern involving 25 colors. Also, almost all the patterns call for wool yarn and are cold-weather sweaters. i.e. almost no cotton or lighter sweaters. Many of the women's patterns are flowery and girly (which I consider a drawback as it's not my taste). I liked the men's sweaters better. Also don't get it if you're looking for children's patterns (there were only 2 or 3, mostly for girls). But I'm glad I got the book, as there are several sweaters that are simply gorgeous, and perhaps one day I'll be brave enough to attempt one. Although I got the book... at a [local] store - if I'd paid full price I might have been disappointed (I consider myself an intermediate knitter right now and haven't really done much color knitting yet.)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Sweaters, Feb 1 2001

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This review is from: The Best of Rowan: 50 Designer Knitting Patterns (Hardcover)

Interesting book, and if you are not familiar with Rowan, a good addition to your knitting library.

However, many of the designs (Fassett's, among others) are already available in other books, so you might want to see how much duplication you will have. Kaffe's Classics has many of his patterns that were not in Glorious Knitting.

That said, it is still a nice book.

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