Teach yourself visually color knitting /
Are you a knitter looking to expand your knowledge and take on new challenges? Color adds vibrant, complex patterns to sweaters, hats, mittens, and more. For the uninitiated, color knitting can be intimidating, but it doesn't have to be. This book explains, step by step, the various methods and...
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Hoboken, N.J. :
WIley Pub.,
c2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Why knit in color?
- Understand color relationships
- The language of color
- Rainbow reptiles project
- Other ways to choose colors
- Tips for successful color mixing
- Chapter 2. Color knitting yarns
- Fiber
- Yarn structure
- Weight
- Hand and drape
- Dye techniques
- Chapter 3. Explore stripes
- Knitting of a different stripe
- Join and carry alternate strands
- Knit stripes in ribbing
- Knit circular stripes with jogless rounds
- Hexagon hat
- Verticality vest
- Stripe yoke turtleneck
- Idea gallery
- Chapter 4. Discover slip-stitch patterns
- One strand at a time
- Understand the slipped stitch
- Knit circular or flat
- Flambé beret and mitten set
- Scarf noir
- Baby bubbles cardigan
- Idea gallery
- Chapter 5. Discover stranded color work
- Stranded colorwork revealed
- Stranded knitting mechanics
- Stranding myths
- stranded colorwork architecture
- How to strand
- Songbirds blouse
- Finniquoy waistcoat
- Regnbue cardigan
- Idea gallery
- Chapter 6. Investigate intarsia
- Intarsia characteristics
- Key intarsia points
- Change colors
- yarn supply
- weave in the ends
- Girl's best friend pullover
- Crabby sweater
- Wulong tea cozy
- Idea gallery
- Chapter 7. Explore entrelac
- Think inside the blocks
- Knit circular entrelac
- Shape entrelac with decreases
- Make top-row triangles
- Knit flat entrelac
- Stained-glass stockings
- Dahlia tote
- Kaleidoscope tam
- Chapter 8. Make modules
- Modular construction
- Shapes
- Units
- Garments
- Join the pieces
- Edge treatments
- Kelp forest scarf
- Chevrons shoulder bag
- Spiral skirt
- Idea gallery
- Chapter 9. Embrace embellishment
- Embellishment as the icing on the cake
- Embellishment techniques
- Rose garden cloche
- Flora cardigan
- Hook, line, and sinker handbag
- Idea gallery
- Chapter 10. Enhance your color knitting skills
- Machine steeks
- Crochet steeks
- Knitted hems
- Knitted cord
- Reading charts
- Button loops
- Knitted cast-on
- Cable cast-on
- Three-needle bind-off
- Crochet seams
- Wet splicing
- Blocking
- Appendix. Index.