Entrelac


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One of today's hottest knitting trends is entrelac, a modular technique that results in striking basketwork designs of rows within rows and interlocking diamond patterns. Using only simple knit and purl stitches, knitters can create eye-catching pieces with incredible texture. Entrelac introduces both the history and how-to of this fun style, along with 20 patterns for a variety of garments, home décor items, and baby accessories. Comprehensive instructions and a wide array of swatches provide endless possibilities in lace, colorwork, and much more.




Entrelac


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Whether knitted flat or in the round, entrelac is a great way to produce intriguing knitted pieces with a seemingly woven look. With clear step-by-step tutorials and illustrative images, this book explains the anatomy of entrelac and how to build up rows of nested triangles and squares. Practice the technique with the different swatch instructions before following one of the book's three patterns, which can be further customized through variations and embellishments. Once you have mastered the technique, there is plenty to inspire your next entrelac project as well as advice on creating your own original designs.




Entrelac 2


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Dedicated knitters will find a fresh, fun challenge in this follow-up to the bestselling Entrelac. Filled with 85 new stitch patterns, Rosemary Drysdales innovative collection features everything from cables, lace, and relief stitches to circles, triangles, and never-before-seen interpretations. Twenty-five patterns include projects for beautiful garments, accessories, baby gifts, and home décor items.




Brioche Knit Love


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Sock Knitting Master Class


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Work from the ground up with knitwear design: create your own socks! Sock Knitting Master Class showcases methods for designing and knitting creative socks, featuring signature elements and techniques from 16 top designers. You'll learn what makes good sock design, and then dive into knitting 18 spectacular, brand-new patterns featuring the widest variety of techniques. With patterns divided into two sections by top-down and toe-up construction, Sock Knitting Master Class explores such techniques as cables, twisted stitches, lace, stranded colorwork, entrelac, shadow knitting, and intarsia worked in the round. Plus, you'll discover inventive ways to start and end socks, shape heels and toes, and knit the soles. Sock Knitting Master Class is an all-star assembly of the most inventive, exciting designers working in socks including Cookie A, Kathryn Alexander, Nancy Bush, Cat Bordhi, Priscilla Gibson-Roberts, Anne Hanson, Melissa Morgan-Oakes, Meg Swanson, Anna Zilboorg, and many more. And you'll also learn how each yarn contributes to the overall design from Clara Parkes.




Entrée to Entrelac


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Presents instructions and patterns using the entrelac technique, including argyle, diamonds, and the ripple stitch.




ENTRELAC KNITTING


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The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques


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An introduction to color knitting techniques explains how knitters of all skill levels can create imaginative color palettes for one's handmade projects, with step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and photographs on stripes, stitch effects, knitting with multicolor yarns, stranded knitting, intarsia, and more, along with tips on materials and finishing techniques.




Stitch Love: Sweet Creatures Big and Small


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Love stitching? Love animals? Then this sweet collection of creatures big and small is perfect for you! Featuring beginner-friendly embroidery patterns from a rising star in the craft community, it features a variety of irresistibly cute critters--pets, farm animals, dinosaurs, even mythical favorites like Pegasus. There are 25 projects in all, from a hedgehog stroller quilt to a dachshund keyboard wrist rest, plus dozens of motifs.




The Art of Tunisian Crochet


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Until the twenty-first century, Tunisian crochet was a little-used style of crochet that was considered relatively simple and unadventurous. Fortunately, nowadays, that has all changed. The Art of Tunisian Crochet offers a comprehensive exploration of what is an often underestimated technique that combines both knitting and crochet principles. The book takes the reader from the technique's relatively young history, dispelling common misassumptions, to the exciting possibilities available to the crafter today. This beautifully illustrated book includes the origin of Tunisian crochet; advantages and disadvantages of materials and equipment; the limitless variations of the basic Tunisian simple stitch; achieving the unexpected ethereal look of Tunisian lace; exploring a creative variety of texture and colour, and finally, incorporating Tunisian crochet with other crafts.