ISBN:
161212996X
Title: Knitting Modular Shawls, Wraps, and Stoles Pdf An Easy, Innovative Technique for Creating Custom Designs, with 185 Stitch Patterns
Author: Melissa Leapman
Published Date: 2018-12-25
Page: 288
Shawls are practical, versatile, and an ever-popular project among knitters. Noted designer Melissa Leapman has developed an innovative technique that promises hundreds of beautiful shawl design options in Knitting Modular Shawls, Wraps, and Stoles!
Beginning with a simple triangular wedge, Leapman shows how multiple knit triangles can be joined together to create square, rectangular, trapezoidal, and semicircular shapes. Her easy and customizable technique offers knitters of all levels endless flexibility in design and yarn choices. Charted patterns for 185 different stitches allow readers to select their favorite embellishment for the main fabric of their shawl. Colorful photographs of 20 of Leapman’s original designs illustrate the creative potential of this technique.
Beautiful I love, love, love this book! I have taken up knitting several times in my life, but something always gets in the way. 6 years ago I moved to Florida and thought my knitting days were over. I had the opportunity to review this book and realized that these gorgeous shawls are the answer!This is definitely not a beginner book, but the pictures and instructions are so clear that it is definitely approachable with a little practice. There are so many different stitches here that it also is a great reference. What I really like are the designs. Some shawls can look a bit “grandmother-ish”, but these are fresh and stylish.A good knitting book should make you want to run for your needles and this one definitely does. Even though I have it electronically, I am buying it in hard copy!Master Shawl Recipes; Well-Organized & Stitches Galore PROs- written & charted, diagonal edges specified; good intro, glossary & examplesCONs- missing side-to-side & rectangular shawls, visual contents, reversibility, color waves, stitch names & history; very few horizontal inserts.This is a very useful and inspiring book for knitters, whether or not you want to make shawls or other kinds of lacy items. The well-organized modular approach will be very liberating to less experienced knitters, and all knitters will benefit from the stitch dictionary, with triangular swatches which provide for knitting diagonal edges as well as the basic rectangular stitch pattern repeat. At the end the many example shawls will provide additional ideas (and save money over purchased patterns). Even though there is room for improvement (see below), if you are only going to get one shawl book, this is the one to get.However, I am frustrated by the lack of attention to reversibility -- none of the swatches show what the back side looks like, and there is no commentary about what patterns might be good for knitting reversible items. Personally I try to make everything I knit look good on both sides.All the swatches are knitted in beige yarn -- this is a very good thing, because it helps you see what the pattern looks like very clearly. However, some swatches will naturally produce wavy rows if knitted in stripes or gradient colors, and it would be nice to explicitly show those variations (e.g. stitch #117). Consequently each swatch needs to be examine very carefully to consider wave potential, if that is what you want. (For example, compare Shawl #6 with the much better use of color in Tori Gurbisz's similar "Ecstatic" shawl on Ravelry.)And there are only a handful of horizontal insertions, which can be real workhorses of shawl knitting (though many of the patterns can be adapted). But most knitters will have other stitch dictionaries on hand to supplement the approach in this book. :}Also, the names & stories of these stitches are almost completely absent. If someone likes stitch #70, there is no way to know that is the same as the classic Feather & Fan. Only the first 9 stitches are named, and no stitch history is given -- did she find them in an 18th century source? Bavarian or Japanese stitch dictionary? in one of Barbara Walker's Stitch Treasuries? did the author unvent it herself? She does include a few nupps, but for those who like that aesthetic, no mention is given of the fact that these are traditional Estonian shawl stitch used in many other patterns from that region.Practically every shawl shape she illustrates is some sort of symmetric triangle. There is no attention to rectangular stoles, or rectangular shawls which have a central rectangle (Shetland, Orenberg, Estonian) -- but of course, these are easy to configure based on the extensive information that is in this book.But another fun shape that is missing is the more modern side-by-side asymmetrical triangular shawl, of which many are on Ravelry. A few basic guidelines about edge increase and decrease rates and examples would be useful.Finally, I wish it had a visual table of contents such as Stanfield's Knitting Stitch Library (AISN B00RWSWDLW), to make it easier to find (or re-find) stitches I am interested in.
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