Summer Knits: 30 Patterns for Warm-Weather Clothes and Accessories

Description

You don't have to pack away your knitting needles until fall! Go beyond sweaters with breezy clothing and sunny accessories. Author and pattern designer Jody Long shows how to handcraft your summer with 30 lightweight, colorful patterns. Knit a case for your sunglasses, a blanket for your picnics, or a cover-up for your swimsuit. Throw your flip-flops in your knitted beach bag and go outside to start your next project. Summer Knits is loaded with cool designs that are perfect for warm-weather knitting: the yarns are lightweight, the colors are bright, and they make the season all the more festive. Or start making these patterns when the seed catalogs arrive in deep winter, and your progress will help you look forward to spring!

British knitwear designer and author Jody Long now lives in Spain. For more than twelve years he designed for all the major UK and US knitting magazines, then moved on to design for knitting mills around the globe. Jody has also designed for celebrity clients. His designs have been featured in Vogue Knitting, Knit Today, Simply Knitting, Knit Simple, Yarn Australia, Women's Weekly, Worthing Herald News, Knitting, Knit Now, and Let's Knit.