Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques

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Now in paperback! Imagine a softly striped crib blanket knit in the comforting colours of the nursery. Or a sophisticated cashmere wrap featuring rich jewel tones that set off a favourite black dress. Knitting teacher and author Margaret Radcliffe presents a world of colour techniques in a single comprehensive reference that you'll consult every time two or more yarn colours are in play. Stitchers of every ability level will love the colour-combining methods and professional secrets revealed in The Essential Guide to Colour Knitting Techniques. Multicolour knitting techniques are explained with step-by-step illustrations and photographs accompanied by instructive text. Complete chapters on stripes, stitch effects, succeeding with multicolour yarns, stranded knitting, and intarsia cover the theory and how-to behind each method and offer creative solutions for handling tangled yarn, estimating yarn quantities of each colour, holding on to all those ends, and employing stunning finishing techniques. A final chapter describes more unusual techniques, such as helix, shadow, mosaic, and modular knitting.

Margaret Radcliffe is the author of The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques, The Knowledgeable Knitter, and the bestsellers The Knitting Answer Book and Circular Knitting Workshop. She regularly teaches throughout the country about everything from beginner's basics to knitting design. She is particularly interested in promoting creativity and independence in all knitters and maintains the website www.maggiesrags.com.