Pretty bloody nifty. I'd glanced through it for a reference on something, and ended up stuck for a wee bit. It's really well put together. ( )

multicolor yarns, plain and textured stripes, entrelac and double knitting, stranding and intarsia, mosaic and shadow knitting

As the title promises, the focus of this book is on knitting techniques and how to best integrate them with color knitting. The author starts with a solid introduction to the basics of color theory, not too complicated, but enough to give the reader a working vocabulary of color terms. From there, she moves to the techniques themselves with chapters both on well-known ones like stripes and stranded knitting as well as one on less commonly-used techniques such as helix knitting, double knitting, and mosaic knitting. There are also chapters on using multicolor yarns effectively, finishing, project design, and an appendix on basic knitting techniques .

This is an impressive work. There are good clear color photos on almost every page, as well as several charts, to go with just about everything the author discusses (the book is oversized, which means there is room on each page for pictures large enough to see easily). There are only a few patterns included, great for a book that I want to keep for years as a reference. Radcliffe's writing is interesting enough that I read the book from beginning to end instead of just flipping straight to whatever technique I wanted to learn about. She discusses the well-known techniques thoroughly, and provides a bibliography of more specialized books—useful for the techniques she doesn't discuss as much. This is a great reference on color knitting, and I look forward to putting it to use. ( )

This book will get your creativity flowing, teach you new techniques or give a new perspective on what you thought you already knew all about. It will get you excited about your knitting.Checked this book out of library and just had to have my own copy. ENJOY. ( )

There is a lot of good information in this book. Right now as it stands there are areas in less common color knitting techniques I wish had more information such as double knitting but there are other areas that include plenty of techniques I would have never thought of and many other books don't cover. It is well written and I think anyone with basic knitting familiarity could benefit from this book. ( )