Free-spirit shawls : 20 eclectic knits for every day /

"Free-Spirit Shawls features 20 shawl projects-including top-down triangle, crescent, and semi-circular. While some projects feature the stockinet-plus-lace designs driving the current shawl and shawlette craze, others explore textured stitches, simple color work and stripes, and unusual stitch...

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Main Author: Shroyer, Lisa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Loveland, CO : Interweave Press, [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction
  • 2.Size, Style & Yarn: making and wearing modern shawls
  • 3.Shawl Techniques
  • a.The Top-Down Triangle
  • b.Half Circles, Crescents, and working Side-to-Side
  • c.Cast-ons and Bind-offs for Shawls
  • d.Make it Pretty: Finishing Tips
  • 4.Color
  • Basilica, Hilary Smith Callis
  • Salter Path, Melissa Goodale
  • Technique Feature: Melissa's new Pi method for making half-circles
  • Striped Shawl (still to be named), Romi Hill
  • Helsinki, Maura Kirk
  • Zigzag Garter Triangle (still to be named), Alexis Winslow
  • 5.Lace
  • Brome, Alexandra Beck
  • Japanese Half Circle (name TK), Kyoko Nakayoshi
  • Bethe, Angela Tong
  • Technique Feature: Shetland construction methods
  • Three Quarter Square (name TK), Mercedes Tarasovich-Clark
  • Spathe, Heather Zoppetti
  • 6.Simplicity
  • Heath, Amy Gunderson
  • Bryusa, Alexandra Beck
  • Lindsay, Tabetha Hedrick
  • Maedwe, AnneLena Mattison
  • Leaf Triangle (name TK), Angela Tong
  • Fringed Garter Triangle (name TK), Mercedes Tarasovich-Clark
  • Technique Feature: Working unraveled stockinette fringe
  • 7.Texture
  • Euclid, Carol Feller
  • Fauve, Kyoko Nakayoshi
  • Cable Edge Triangle (name TK), Kate Gagnon Osborn
  • The Return Journey, Lisa Shroyer
  • 8.Glossary
  • 9.Sources.