Handpaint Country: A Knitter's Journey: Amazon.ca: Cheryl Potter, Alexis Xenakis: Books

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Dream of color: color that pools, concentrates, merges, speckles, flows, reflects - color that makes a splash. In Handpaint Country, you'll meet hand-dyers who live the dream. Then the designers take over, showing you what to do when you choose a colorway, not just a color. Handpaint Country features designs using yarns from each dyer. Whatever we call them - whether "handpaint" is a process or just a look - we love these yarns. They spark our creativity. May you end this journey with a few new friends, knowing old ones a bit better, confident in what to do with the yarns you love. Dream on...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!!!!!, Dec 10 2003

By	Dena R. Sigman "I eat books!!" (Denver, NC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sometimes I just want to pick up a knitting book just to drool over the designs, colors, textures rather than attempt something. The patterns appear rather well written and easy to follow-it's just that I am a basic, basic, basic knitter and have not reached this "Zen" level of knitting. This book TOTALLY inspired me to keep going. I WANT to be able to knit like this and use these yarns. I saw one review that said she couldn't find the yarn. Concidentally, the other day I was in AC Moore craft store and picked up a magazine titled Interweave Knits. Almost every one of the yarns were listed in this magazine! I will always reach for this book for inspiration.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Lavish with Some Practical Problems, Nov 29 2002

By	Valerie clark (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This book is beautiful beyond belief. The photographs are beautiful and it's interesting to compare and contrast the different views of handpainting yarn and design sensibilities presented here. I also liked the insights provided into running small yarn companies coupled with the sense of craft in different parts of the US. The big pages can inspire dreams about knitting and the book is a great spur to the imagination.Some of the designs are not to my taste but there are many tastes presented here and I'm sure most readers would find plenty of things they like.
I would also recommend this book to people who handpaint their own yarn as I do - seeing the excellent photographs of many different styles of handpainted yarn was a real eye opener to me.
That said, I regret that it's hard to find out where to buy many of the yarns so tantalizingly presented here. I have been knitting for over thirty years and never follow a pattern exactly; I wouldn't recommend this book to neophytes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Need inspiration? read this book!, Nov 18 2002

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As a handspinner, I'm always curious about what other spinners and dyers are doing. Handpaint Country was impossible to put down. The photos are beautiful and I was enchanted by the stories of the women who spin and dye in the book. Their yarns are gorgeous! i thought some of the projects in the book were a little odd, but other than that, it's a great book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous!
I am very fussy about my knitting books. Many of them have the same basic sweater patterns over and over (look at the schematics) the change in "look" of a sweater comprising of... Read more

Published on Nov 7 2002 by Suzanne Witthoft

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book is inspirational
It's a gorgeous book, hands down. I put it right up there with Knitting Across America for sheer inspiration and beauty. Read more

Published on Mar 22 2002 by T. L. Shea

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book
This book was worth the...time waiting. I used handpainted yarns for a while, but these ideas ..... Wow!!! Read more

Published on Feb 24 2002 by U. Mesnaric

5.0 out of 5 stars Bedazzled by color
Though I am weaver, I find the ideas and the color-ways extraordinary ! The photos are eye candy for the soul ! Read more

Published on Feb 11 2002 by Daniel Bridge