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Lädt ... Knitting Outside the Box (2017. Auflage)von Bristol Ivy (Autor)
Werk-InformationenKnitting Outside the Box von Bristol Ivy
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Knitting Outside the Box is part creative exercises, part insight into the design process. Bristol guides the reader (and knitter) through the techniques she herself uses as a designer to explore and push the endless possibilities of knitting. For any knitter who has mused on the question 'What if?', Bristol encourages an experimental approach, with her generous spirit and enthusiasm imbued in every exercise and explanation. Each stage of the book is complemented with a knitting pattern, which serves as an example of the methods explained in the book. Fifteen garments and accessories are paired with the most gorgeous of yarns. As with every Pom Pom publication, you'll recognise the attention to detail and excellence you know and love, the sumptuous, inspiring photography, and the quality paper. Their first hardback book, this is a tome that you can expect to grace a knitter's shelf as part of the reference cannon for inspiration and technique. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)746.432The arts Graphic arts and decorative arts Textile arts Needlework Yarn Crafts KnittingKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (4)
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When I started knitting, lo these many years ago, I imagined knitting some wonderful three-dimensional weird angular yet curving Yohji Yamamoto-like garments ... never realising (a) it would take forever, (b) that might not be the designer I meant, maybe Rei Kawakaba?, and (c) isn't crochet better for that anyway? So I turned to more attainable hats and dishcloths, as one does.
And yet, I dreamed. I dreamed of just plunging in and experimenting with weird and unusual construction. What would happen if I did a whole bunch of yarnovers at once and then upon approaching them in the next round knit some together, dropped a few, knit the rest together, etc. What if I knit the next stitch together with some stitch, say, five rows below it? What would happen? And, the perennial question, what do short rows do? And do they get wider or narrower (it's confusing) and if so, why?
Bristol Ivy is a dreamer like me, but unlike me she appears to have found the time to try out all these experiments and more. Her book is approximately 1/4 musings and reports of her discoveries, and 3/4 patterns based on these discoveries. I still want to experiment for myself, but it can be a guided experimentation, based on her examples, rather than me blindly groping to some desired but ill-glimpsed effect.
So, highly recommended, as not-your-usual-book on knitting.
(Cribbed from my blog on knitting: www.unclestashley.com)
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s). (