Machine Knitting (eBook)

Designing with Colour

Alison Dupernex (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
272 Seiten
Crowood (Verlag)
978-1-78500-686-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The popularity of hand frame knitting is underestimated and there are many passionate and creative knitters who have taken machine knitting into their heads, hearts and hands. Overflowing with colour and stitch ideas, inspirational photos and customizable patterns, this book will inject vitality into your knitting practice. Explore how colours can be juxtaposed for best effect or where Slip, Tuck and Fair Isle stitches will add new textures and make intricate fabrics. Seventy-five knitting patterns, ranging from coats and scarves to bags and sculptures, offer enticing new project ideas as well as suggested variations and additions you can make to expand your design skills. Topics covered include: a history of hand frame knitting; techniques and stitches; the design process; stripes, circles and colour; Fair Isle; lace and sculptural vessels and, finally, how to develop your hobby into a business. Written for both experienced knitters and anyone using a knitting machine, this book will act as a catalyst for hand frame knitters to add stitch and colour variety to their work.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 419 colour and 17 b&w photos 22 diagrams
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Schlagworte: BAG • Bauhaus • bearded needle • Circles • Coat • Colour • colour circle • colourway • colour wheel • cowl • Crane knitting machine • Cushion • Designing • Donegal wool • Fair Isle • Felting • framework knitters • Griswold • Hagiwara knitting machine • hand frame knitting • handknitting problems • Harrison knitting machine • jacket • Knitting • knitting books • knitting guides • knitting machine • knitwear business • knitwear design • Lace • latch tool • Linker • machine knitting • Orion knitting machine • Passap knitting machine • Professional • punchcard • rug • scarf • sculptural vessels • shawl • SLIP • slip stitch • stitch design • stitch pattern • stocking frame • Stripes • Swatch • Tension • throw • Trade Show • transfer tool • Tuck • tuck stitch • WARP • Weft • William Lee • Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters • Yarn
• ISBN-10: 1-78500-686-X / 178500686X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78500-686-9 / 9781785006869