Author : Sarah Anderson
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1603429026
Discover the satisfying fun of spinning your own yarn! This step-by-step guide shows you how to create 80 distinctive yarn types, from classics like mohair bouclé to novelties like supercoils. Covering the entire spinning process, Sarah Anderson describes the unique architecture of each type of yarn and shares expert techniques for manipulating and combining fibers. Take your crafting to a new level and ensure that you have the best yarn available by spinning it yourself.
Author : Noël Bennett
Publisher : Northland Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Hand weaving
ISBN :
A step-by-step manual that illustrates techniques for constructing looms and other weaving tools and making Navajo rug designs.
Author : Stephen West
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781733375122
Painting Shawls is a collection of thirteen knitted shawl patterns designed by Stephen West. Each pattern features Westknits' signature architectural style and bold graphic color combinations. The instructions are easy to follow and appropriate for adventurous beginners and advanced knitters alike. This hardcover book is filled with inspirational photos, showing multiple samples of each design to inspire your own color interpretations. In addition to patterns, this book includes several technique chapters like how to substitute yarns and customize the size of each shawl along with how to swatch and weave in your ends. There are also several cast on photo tutorials and video links throughout the book to teach and guide you through the artistic shawl knitting process. Each book includes a free download code, so you can access individual PDFs of all thirteen shawl patterns. Dive into the woolly world of Westknits and use these playful shawl designs as landscapes to paint with yarn. If you're going to make it by hand, make it grand!
Author : Margaret Docherty
Publisher : Interweave
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781931499705
The fundamentals of felting including choosing fibers and colors, making flat felt and boiling felt, and stitching felt are demonstrated in 20 beautiful projects in a range of contemporary colors in this beginner's guide. Projects include a cloche hat, a child's jacket, slippers, delicate scarves, square and inlayed throw pillows, and a long-lasting rug. Each project is presented with simple step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and alternative samples and suggestions that help felters to create their own designs. Felters can bring this highly handcrafted style into their wardrobes and home decor with these simple and beautiful pieces.
Author : Gail Rogers
Publisher : Milner Craft (Paperback)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781863513340
"With exotic silks and truly beautiful coloured wools, this book provides an adventure into the wonderful world of wool embroidery. In many designs the embroidered wool is enhanced by metallic threads, the sheen of silk ribbon, and the extra dimension of beads"--Page 4 of cover
Author : Patti Eaton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Appliqué
ISBN : 9781564774231
Wonderfully warm to the touch, exceptionally elegant to the eye-create a cozy look that lasts all winter long with wool felt. Gorgeous floral designs in rich winter shades are perfect for displaying throughout the chilly months. Projects are a snap to stitch using soft, easy-to-handle wool felt. Choose from lap and wall quilts, table toppers, pillows, and more-14 projects in all. Appliqu beautiful flowers, vines, leaves, and berries in classic winter colors. Start with a collection of festive holiday designs, including a tree skirt and Christmas banner.
Author : Lisa Bongean
Publisher : Martingale
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1683561481
For quilters yearning to work with wool and wanting to learn from the master, Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gatherings is here to help. In her first book, Wool, Needle & Thread, Lisa shares all her tried-and-true techniques--from start to fabulous finish--with dozens of step-by-step photos and a handful of projects. Now, in Wool, Needle & Thread 2, you can put all those stitchery skills into action with 15 patterns brimming with possibilities from table mats and pincushions to pillows and wall hangings. It's a maker's delight.
Author : Vedis Jonsdottir
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781250024800
A perfect gift book for crafty clothiers, Vedis Jonsdottir's Knitting with Icelandic Wool is an exceptional resource for all knitters looking for new designs or traditional styles with a modern twist to make in this uniquely lightweight bulky yarn known as Lopi. One of the best known types of yarn, Icelandic wool or Lopi is used to make sweaters that have a long-lasting and classic appeal. This 100% pure wool yarn is lighter, warmer, and more water-resistant than yarns from elsewhere, as the long-coated native Icelandic sheep have developed over time to ensure as much protection as possible from the harsh northern climate, giving the wool its special properties. With over sixty-five gorgeous designs, there are patterns for a range of garments for the whole family—from variations on the traditional Icelandic yoked sweaters to smaller projects such as wooly hats, socks, and scarves, to stunning lacy garments and other more contemporary designs—all knit in different weights of Icelandic wool. For all of the patterns complete step-by-step instructions are paired with easy-to-follow lace and color knitting charts, and all the stitches, techniques, and abbreviations you need—including how to work two-color knitting—and more are in the back. Beautifully photographed in Iceland and created in collaboration with Iceland's largest wool manufacturer, Ístex, the book includes a brief history on the emergence of the Icelandic Lopi sweater and the Icelandic wool industry.
Author : Alice Starmore
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0486817180
This volume of Tudor Roses presents new and reimagined garments based on the original Tudor Roses published in 1998. Alice Starmore looks to historical female figures of the Tudor Dynasty as inspiration for her stunning knitwear, and her modernization of traditional Fair Isle and Aran patterns has created a sensation in the knitting world. Through garment design, Starmore and her daughter Jade tell the stories of fourteen women connected with the Tudor dynasty. They weave a narrative around the known facts of their subjects' lives using photography, art, and the only medium through which the Tudor women could leave a lasting physical record in their world — needlework. Tudor Roses includes fourteen patterns for sweaters and other wearables that follow the chronological order of the Tudor dynasty. A different model portrays each of the Tudor women, from Elizabeth Woodville, grandmother of Henry VIII, through Mary, Queen of Scots. The stunning design and photography appeals to knitters seeking designs that offer an attractive balance of historic and modern elements.
Author : Clara Parkes
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1683356829
The renowned knitter shares her year-long adventure through America’s colorful, fascinating—and slowly disappearing—wool industry. Join Clara Parkes as she ventures across the country to meet the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Along the way, she encounters a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. In pursuit of the perfect yarn, Parkes describes a brush with the dangers of opening a bale (they can explode), and her adventures from Maine to Wisconsin (“the most knitterly state”) and back again. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead.
