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Knit So Fine: Designs with Skinny Yarn

11 reviews
Lisa Myers, Carol Sulcoski, ...

Interweave Press, 2008

Fine Gauge Knitting is So Fine
I love this book for the ideas and the gauge information for fancy patterned knits. I would much prefer to work with fingering than with bulky yarns and there are very few collections in books for fingering, so this was a pleasant surprise. I usually don't follow any particular pattern wholly, but end up designing my own adaptations. This book will be no different for me, but there are some ...

Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn
Carol Sulcoski

Interweave Press, 2008

Providing technical guidance as well as fun, creative patterns, this resource tackles handpainted yarns, identifying the many challenges?and many opportunities?they provide for knitting socks. Focusing on how to make the most of these much-loved yarns, it explains how to design projects with hand-dyed material versus other types of yarns, how to avoid the pitfalls of pooling and splotching, and how to combine multicolored hand paints with other ...