Author: Lynne Vogel
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 9781931499163
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
With simple directions and tips on how to dye, paint, spin, and knit yarn to create authentic socks, this book offers all the information necessary to fashion socks with personality. Included are innovative patterns and tips for knitting socks with customized fit--even for all ten toes. Safe and easy directions are given on dyeing yarn from pour-dyeing methods to dyeing with Kool-Aid. With photos and illustrations of finished examples, sock patterns such as newborn socks and magic genie toe socks, and advice on how to create one-of-a-kind projects, it will appeal to all levels of knitters and spinners.
The Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook
Author: Lynne Vogel
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 9781931499163
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
With simple directions and tips on how to dye, paint, spin, and knit yarn to create authentic socks, this book offers all the information necessary to fashion socks with personality. Included are innovative patterns and tips for knitting socks with customized fit--even for all ten toes. Safe and easy directions are given on dyeing yarn from pour-dyeing methods to dyeing with Kool-Aid. With photos and illustrations of finished examples, sock patterns such as newborn socks and magic genie toe socks, and advice on how to create one-of-a-kind projects, it will appeal to all levels of knitters and spinners.
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 9781931499163
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
With simple directions and tips on how to dye, paint, spin, and knit yarn to create authentic socks, this book offers all the information necessary to fashion socks with personality. Included are innovative patterns and tips for knitting socks with customized fit--even for all ten toes. Safe and easy directions are given on dyeing yarn from pour-dyeing methods to dyeing with Kool-Aid. With photos and illustrations of finished examples, sock patterns such as newborn socks and magic genie toe socks, and advice on how to create one-of-a-kind projects, it will appeal to all levels of knitters and spinners.
The Twisted Sisters Knit Sweaters
Author: Lynne Vogel
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1620332779
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Adapting basic sweater patterns for personal preferences and measurements is the focus of this step-by-step guidebook that helps knitters refashion knitting schematics. The designs, illustrations, and photos demonstrate how to adjust patterns to different styles so that any knitter can customize sweater patterns into unique creations. Challenging projects--ranging from sweaters and vests to pullovers and jackets--and easy-to-follow instructions illustrate the basic elements of sweater design to inspire knitters at all levels. Learning how to fit the bodice; change yarns, proportions, neckline styles, sleeve length, and color and stitch patterns; and add collars and edgings will give knitters the confidence to alter any pattern to meet their needs.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1620332779
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Adapting basic sweater patterns for personal preferences and measurements is the focus of this step-by-step guidebook that helps knitters refashion knitting schematics. The designs, illustrations, and photos demonstrate how to adjust patterns to different styles so that any knitter can customize sweater patterns into unique creations. Challenging projects--ranging from sweaters and vests to pullovers and jackets--and easy-to-follow instructions illustrate the basic elements of sweater design to inspire knitters at all levels. Learning how to fit the bodice; change yarns, proportions, neckline styles, sleeve length, and color and stitch patterns; and add collars and edgings will give knitters the confidence to alter any pattern to meet their needs.
Dyeing to Knit
Author: Elaine Eskesen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892726677
Category : Dyes and dyeing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Knitters already familiar with using space-dyed, hand-painted, or rainbow-dyed yarns often wish they could move on to the next step and dye their own yarns, but worry that the process will be too intimidating. But it really is not difficult, as Elaine Eskesen shows in Dyeing to Knit, sharing her many years of dyeing experience and giving concise, helpful instructions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780892726677
Category : Dyes and dyeing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Knitters already familiar with using space-dyed, hand-painted, or rainbow-dyed yarns often wish they could move on to the next step and dye their own yarns, but worry that the process will be too intimidating. But it really is not difficult, as Elaine Eskesen shows in Dyeing to Knit, sharing her many years of dyeing experience and giving concise, helpful instructions.
Color in Spinning
Author: Deb Menz
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 9781931499828
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written expressly for the hand spinner seeking new adventures in color, this manual presents in-depth discussions and step-by-step photographed demonstrations of immersion dyeing, painting rovings, blending colors and fibers, and spinning and plying multicolored preparations. A chapter on understanding color principles offers novice spinners the skills needed to easily work with color while providing advanced spinning techniques for the expert dyer. A gallery of finished pieces as well as appendixes on dye workshops and metric conversions are included.
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 9781931499828
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written expressly for the hand spinner seeking new adventures in color, this manual presents in-depth discussions and step-by-step photographed demonstrations of immersion dyeing, painting rovings, blending colors and fibers, and spinning and plying multicolored preparations. A chapter on understanding color principles offers novice spinners the skills needed to easily work with color while providing advanced spinning techniques for the expert dyer. A gallery of finished pieces as well as appendixes on dye workshops and metric conversions are included.
Socks
Author: Ida Tomshinsky
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477160515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477160515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Spinner's Book of Fleece
Author: Beth Smith
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 1612120393
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Explains the crucial factors that spinners, knitters and weavers need to know in order to create yarn, describing 21 different breeds of sheep, their characteristics and history and the structure, grease content and fiber diameter of each one's fleece.
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 1612120393
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Explains the crucial factors that spinners, knitters and weavers need to know in order to create yarn, describing 21 different breeds of sheep, their characteristics and history and the structure, grease content and fiber diameter of each one's fleece.
Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden
Author: Sherri Warner Hunter
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781579905859
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Sherri Hunter, author of the best-selling Creating with Concrete, proves once again that concrete isn't just for sidewalks anymore; it's perfect for the garden too. A selection of 30 beautiful designs suggests the range of this increasingly popular material, and the illustrated instructions make the craft's fundamentals easy to learn. Because the simplest projects come first, beginners can work their way through the book progressively, building on their skills. Novices will have fun making the carved trough, sandcast bowl, and elegant relief panel. More sophisticated projects, including a decorative walkway and polished table, come next, and they'll bring charm to any outdoor space. More adventurous artists can unleash their creativity on a "Garden Guardian" sculpture or water feature. A Selection of the Crafters Choice and Homestyle Book Clubs.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781579905859
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Sherri Hunter, author of the best-selling Creating with Concrete, proves once again that concrete isn't just for sidewalks anymore; it's perfect for the garden too. A selection of 30 beautiful designs suggests the range of this increasingly popular material, and the illustrated instructions make the craft's fundamentals easy to learn. Because the simplest projects come first, beginners can work their way through the book progressively, building on their skills. Novices will have fun making the carved trough, sandcast bowl, and elegant relief panel. More sophisticated projects, including a decorative walkway and polished table, come next, and they'll bring charm to any outdoor space. More adventurous artists can unleash their creativity on a "Garden Guardian" sculpture or water feature. A Selection of the Crafters Choice and Homestyle Book Clubs.
Synthetic Dyes for Natural Fibers
Author: Linda Knutson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934026239
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780934026239
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Hands on Spinning
Author: Lee Raven
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 9780934026277
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Understanding how spinning works, choosing a wheel, building a simple spindle, spinning on a treadle wheel, preparing fibers, carding, twisting, and plying.
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 9780934026277
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Understanding how spinning works, choosing a wheel, building a simple spindle, spinning on a treadle wheel, preparing fibers, carding, twisting, and plying.
The Killing Lessons
Author: Saul Black
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250057345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In their isolated country house, a mother and her two children prepare to wait out a blinding snowstorm. Two violent predators walk through the door. Nothing will ever be the same.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250057345
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In their isolated country house, a mother and her two children prepare to wait out a blinding snowstorm. Two violent predators walk through the door. Nothing will ever be the same.