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Cargando... Custom Knits: Unleash Your Inner Designer with Top-Down and Improvisational Techniques (edición 2008)por Wendy Bernard, Kimball Hall (Fotógrafo)
Información de la obraCustom Knits: Unleash Your Inner Designer with Top-Down and Improvisational Techniques por Wendy Bernard
  
Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) MarthaJeanne | Apr 2, 2016 |   ) laurazlsk | Nov 8, 2010 | This is all top-down construction, which suits some people and doesn't suit some others, but it does talk about adjusting designs and working them for yourself. This is a book for someone who knows something about what they're letting themselves in for. Definitely not a beginners book, though many of the patterns are mostly stocking (or stockingette) stitch or with a little bit of fairly simple design involved. It's a book to stretch you, to make you think about your relationship with your favourite jumpers and see how you can make them yourself, in your own favourite colours and with your own detail. Overall, I'm torn, it's a good book with interesting ideas but nothing really sings to me in it, except of course the guidelines. (  )2  wyvernfriend | Apr 6, 2009 | )2 Honos | Jan 29, 2009 |
Learn to unleash your inner knitter and make projects that are guaranteed to look good when you are finished. Divided into 6 chapters, the first chapter starts out by teaching you what patterns are flattering to your own figure and what fits into your lifestyle. Chapter one also covers the basics of interpreting a pattern, especially a schematic, so you can really "see" what the garment is going to look like and how it is going to fit. You will also get helpful tips on taking your measurements and how to create your very own dress form. Several chapters dedicated to patterns follow: top-down raglan sweaters, top-down set-in sleeves sweaters, bottom-up round-yoke sweaters, and patterns to design on the fly. The patterns come in a wide range of sizes from x-small to 3x. Each pattern also offers ideas to get you started customizing the project to fit your own lifestyle. The designing on the fly chapter features very simple patterns created by using existing favorite garments or simple calculations and stitch patterns, and almost no seaming. Finally, for those knitters who want to get serious about customizing your garments, the end of the book is a complete reference section of helpful techniques and formulas for how to design a sweater from scratch with no pattern at all. Preview designs.
Along with being pleasurable and satisfying, knitting can sometimes be frustrating: the turtleneck that looked so fabulous on the model is too bulky for your body, or the cardigan you spent countless hours on just doesn't fit right. Herein lies the beauty of Custom Knits, which teaches knitters how to use improvisational techniques to achieve spectacular results--and to unleash their inner designers. Wendy Bernard, creator of the popular blog Knit and Tonic, provides 25 original designs for sweaters of nearly every type, plus variations, most knitted in one piece starting at the top, a method that allows you to try on as you go, alter as desired, and essentially design on the fly. "Make It Your Own" prompts in each pattern suggest easy alterations to suit your style and body type. And an in-depth reference section teaches how to alter key sweater elements, for example, change a crewneck to a V-neck, add sleeves to a vest, and much more. For the truly adventurous, the book concludes with guidelines for knitting sweaters with no pattern at all. Bernard's friendly writing style and photographer Kimball Hall's lively images create an inviting book of beautiful designs and key techniques that a knitter can use to customize nearly every garment she knits from now on. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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