- Paperback: 126 pages
- Publisher: Martingale & Company; illustrated edition edition (14 Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1564773132
- ISBN-13: 978-1564773135
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.1 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,256,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Major Disappointment, 19 Jun 2001
By A. Lupia "amlbee" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Knit it Your Way: Change the Yarn to Suit Your Style (Paperback)
What a disappointment! This is a book based on the empty promise that the author is going to show some new way to solve the age old knitter's dilemma of yarn substitutions and how to make them. There is nothing new in this book; she solves yarn substitutions the way we all do and have been doing for a million years; swatch, swatch, swatch. This information is available from magazines, books, classes and other knitters!She does show examples of sweaters knitted in two different weights of yarn, and for the novice knitter I suppose this could be interesting, and possibly informative. However, for any knitter who has made even one successful yarn substitution, I feel this book is an expensive retelling of an old tale.
I would strongly suggest that anyone thinking about purchasing this book first seek out a copy to look through.
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Could use some more yarn varieties for comparison, 20 Feb 2001
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Knit it Your Way: Change the Yarn to Suit Your Style (Paperback)
This is not as bad a book as some reviewers have made it out to be. Reading it, I got the sense that this author was NOT someone who gets all the yarn she wants from doing work for the yarn companies, but instead has to actually BUY her yarn, like most of us. The styles were basic, but nice, and were shown as completed garments in both yarn choices. Many pattern books show other colorways and yarns, but only as pattern swatches. It is a much cheaper book than "Simply Beautiful Sweaters" which was totally about $$$$$ yarn.
It would have been nice to see more closeups of the yarns that were used, so it would be a little easier to substitute what you already have. I also thought her yarns, even her nicer ones, did not look all that different in photos from some of the rock-bottom discount yarns available--the cover photo really suffered in this regard. Perhaps the next printing will have some of these issues addressed. It still is a pretty good book.
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There is much in this book that is good..., 2 Jan 2001
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Knit it Your Way: Change the Yarn to Suit Your Style (Paperback)
Many years ago, a critic in the New Yorker wrote, "There is much in this book that is good, and much in this book that is new; but what is good is not new, and what is new is not good." Well, I won't be that harsh, (the garments herein are stylish and utterly simple) but it is hardly news that yarns and gauges can be freely substituted to arrive at a made-to-measure garment. The KnitCalc handheld knitting calculator has been on the market for twenty years or more, though with a little planning, any regular calculator can be used to perform many of the same functions. And machine knitters have had charting devices since the 1970s, simple mechanical or battery-operated devices which enable the knitter to draw a garment outline (or even use a commercial tissue sewing pattern in the case of the Brother) to scale, and simply knit away as the garment outline clicks past. These devices make it very simple to knit any garment in any yarn, and any gauge. It makes any knitting pattern which offers a schematic fair game for the knitter's carte blanche creativity.
What is essential with all these methods is the careful preparation of a gauge swatch. It's important to buy extra yarn for swatching--perhaps as much as an extra skein--and keep sampling until you come up with the exact fabric you want your garment to be. The swatch is the key to any system. Whichever method you choose, learning to knit like this gives you complete creative freedom. You will never feel you must use the exact yarn specified in a pattern (almost always an expensive yarn), or even the stitch. You become the designer, and in taking control of your knitting in this way, you will find it brings the greatest possible satisfaction.
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