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Master beginner and advance colorwork knitting techniques in Interweave's most comprehensive colorwork guide to-date. With chapters outlining more than a half dozen colorwork knitting techniques, The Colorwork Bible is your updated exploration of both beginner- and advanced-level skills with a vibrant, modern palette and inspired projects. Join knitwear designer Jesie Ostermiller as you learn. A variety of small-scale swatch lessons that help you...
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A top knitwear designer offers thirty-five retro-inspired patterns that put a new spin on fashion's timeless trends. In fashion, one day you're in, the next day you're out . . . and the day after that, you're back in again. Designers are always referring to fashion's rich history as they imagine its present and future, and retro looks remain ever-fresh as they are renewed-and restyled-for the next generation of wearers. That's precisely what top knitwear...
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What are all of the fashionable pups wearing this year? Hand-knit sweaters, of course! Knitting is a trendy hobby, and what's cuter than a dog in a sweater? Cable-knit, ribbed, raglan, chunky, turtleneck--you name it, and Redhound for Dogs has a pattern for it. You'll love the fifteen knitting projectsfourteen sweaters and one blanketranked from "one paw" for a straightforward pattern to "three paws" for more complicated projects, as well as stunning...
87) Needled to death
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When Kelly Flynn takes a group of tourists to visit Vickie Claymore's alpaca farm, she is greeted by a dead body and must unravel the truth in order to bring a clever killer to justice.
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"Classic yoke sweaters never go out of style - they are the perfect canvas for textured and colorwork designs - and this collection of knitting patterns features 12 gorgeous yoke designs that will have you reaching for you needles. Knitting designer Olga Putano has created three basic sweater patterns and four yoke designs for different yarn weights, so there's something for every season." -- Back cover.
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Add personality, sentiment, and coziness to your kitchen with Easy Knit Dishcloths. Don't underestimate the effect knitting your own dishcloths can have on a space! There's a difference between a house and a home, and there's definitely a difference between a kitchen and a cozy kitchen! Make your kitchen more than a room for cooking; knit a cozy kitchen -- knit your own dishcloths! Easy Knit Dishcloths offers 13 designs that are a great way to practice knitting,...
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Noted designer Melissa Leapman has developed an innovative technique that promises hundreds of beautiful shawl design options in Knitting Modular Shawls, Wraps, and Stoles!
Beginning with a simple triangular wedge, Leapman shows how multiple knit triangles can be joined together to create square, rectangular, trapezoidal, and semicircular shapes. Her easy and customizable technique offers knitters of all levels endless flexibility in design and yarn...
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"A knitting sourcebook full of patterns and techniques for making shawls and wraps with ease Kate Atherley and Kim McBrien Evans aim to equip adventurous knitters with the skills to knit and create shawls and wraps of all shapes and sizes and to help them forge their own shawl-knitting paths. Tips and tutorials address the technical aspects of shawl knitting, from shaping to adapting stitch patterns to making color and fabric choices. A gallery...
94) Murder, she knit
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Knit and Nibble mystery volume 1
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Pamela is hosting the next Knit and Nibble meeting and can't wait to liven up her otherwise empty home with colorful yarn, baking, and a little harmless gossip. She even recruits Amy Morgan, an old friend who recently moved to town, as the group's newest member. But on the night of the gathering, Amy doesn't show. Not until Pamela finds the woman dead outside--a knitting needle stabbed through the front of her handmade sweater. Someone committed murder...
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"Every knitter knows that sometimes you have yarn left over after finishing a make--maybe a whole ball, often slightly less than a ball, but either way too much to just throw it away and not enough to return it to the seller. Then there's the yarn you buy without a particular make in mind, just because it's a beautiful color, or you love the feel of it, or it was in a flash sale. But what can you do with all these lovely bits and pieces? Knitting...
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"Slow Knitting introduced crafters to a process of more mindful making through five basic tenets: source carefully, make thoughtfully, think seasonally, experiment fearlessly, and explore openly. Now, this seasonal approach encourages knitters to delve deeper into those concepts, applying them to everyday making through a series of essays, projects, and patterns that explore the life of a knitter throughout the year. Organized similarly to a...
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"An exciting book from Wendy Bernard, Knitted Gifts for All Seasons is packed with 30 new garments and accessories. Projects are organized by season and range from cozy slippers, mittens, and a pom-pom wreath to Fair Isle yoke-neck sweaters for the whole family. Embracing the full calendar year and a wide spectrum of reasons to gift knits, each project captures the season's essence through color scheme and project type, resulting in a well-rounded...
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This exciting new Japanese stitch dictionary is from popular designer Yoko Hatta--the founder and driving force behind the Kazekobo Studio. Though this is her first book in English, her work already has an extensive following in Western countries--more than 1,000 of her designs can be seen on Ravelry.com. Hatta is one of several Japanese knitters whose patterns and designs have sparked an explosion of interest in Japanese knitting techniques and aesthetics...
100) The knitting diaries
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Blossom Street novel volume 8
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A collection of three stories about love and knitting includes Susan Mallery's "Coming Unraveled, " in which Robyn Mulligan returns home to run her grandmother's knitting store and meets handsome T.J. Passman.