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Throw out your holey old horrors and treat your feet with this inspiring selection of fun and practical toe-warmers. You wont find boring socks in this book - its packed with inspiring designs from pretty baby bootees and glamorous boudoir slippers to rugged outdoor knits for the man in your life. Cozy Socks features 30 knitted projects that are fast, fun and practical. The patterns are easy to follow and the techniques you will need are clearly explained. If you have mastered the basics of knitting and are ready for a new challenge, this book proves that nobody needs to have cold feet about making socks!
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Chrissie Day started crafting accessories for her daughter and her college friends. Since then, it has grown into a business with Chrissie selling her work through galleries and teaching craft courses. She is also the author of Wire Jewellery: Crocheted, Knitted, Twisted and Beaded and Felt Style: 35 Fashionable Accessories to Create and Wear (both published by CICO Books).
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is probably the worst sock knitting book I have ever seen. On first inspection I noticed several glaring errors in the knitting instructions. The socks themselves are also very poorly knitted and are extremely amateurish at best.
If you are serious about sock knitting, please do not buy this book - there are other titles available that will give you a basic grounding in the fundamentals of sock knitting.
If you are serious about sock knitting, please do not buy this book - there are other titles available that will give you a basic grounding in the fundamentals of sock knitting.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a padded out version of a free supplement given out by Knitting magazine. The original supplement had 7 sock patterns for adults inside, whilst this one has a selection for children and babies added.
I liked the simplicity of the patterns I could see in the pictures - felted chunky knits and boot and clog socks knitted in DK yarn - good to knit up quickly and easily and mindlessly, I thought. Not at all! The reality turns out to be full of errors - basic typos and more serious omissions abound in the patterns. I am an experienced knitter but even I couldn't make the sideways knit 'baby pods' come out looking as it should. An example: if you've cast on 15st you cannot by any stretch of the imagination increase two at a time to give 22st. I knit the moss stitch shoesocks easily enough - but where's the instructions for a second? If you are a beginner it would be all too easy to produce two right shoes and be very disappointed. It's probably down to bad editing, but really - not good enough!
Save your money and buy another book - there are plenty better out there.
I liked the simplicity of the patterns I could see in the pictures - felted chunky knits and boot and clog socks knitted in DK yarn - good to knit up quickly and easily and mindlessly, I thought. Not at all! The reality turns out to be full of errors - basic typos and more serious omissions abound in the patterns. I am an experienced knitter but even I couldn't make the sideways knit 'baby pods' come out looking as it should. An example: if you've cast on 15st you cannot by any stretch of the imagination increase two at a time to give 22st. I knit the moss stitch shoesocks easily enough - but where's the instructions for a second? If you are a beginner it would be all too easy to produce two right shoes and be very disappointed. It's probably down to bad editing, but really - not good enough!
Save your money and buy another book - there are plenty better out there.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Tried 3 patterns and all had errors. Have wasted time and money on this product and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
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Don't buy it
I was given this book, what a waste of money it has turned out to be, if my friend realised she would be more disgusted than I am. Read more
Published 2 months ago by crofterc
Not a super sock book!
This book is a very poor choice among the many excellent sock knitting books now available. It has put me off buying any other publications by Chrissie Day. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Helen Drever
Socky-wocky-doodle all the day
What is enormously refreshing about this book it the simplicity of it, with something for all ages and abilities. Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2009 by Mrs. P. J. Beeching
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