The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques: Multicolor Yarns, Plain and Textured Stripes, Entrelac and Double Knitting, Stranding and Intarsia, Mosaic and Shadow Knitting, 150 Color Patterns

by Margaret Radcliffe

Overview

Now in paperback! Imagine a softly striped crib blanket knit in the comforting colors of the nursery. Or a sophisticated cashmere wrap featuring rich jewel tones that set off a favorite black dress. Knitting teacher and author Margaret Radcliffe presents a world of color techniques in a single comprehensive reference that you’ll consult every time two or more yarn colors are in play. Stitchers of every ability level will love the color-combining methods and professional secrets revealed in The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques. Multicolor knitting techniques are explained with step-by-step illustrations and photographs accompanied by instructive text. Complete chapters on stripes, stitch effects, succeeding with multicolor 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 color, 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.


 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612126623
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	07/28/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	355,892
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

An Invitation: Going Beyond Knits and Purls

1 Color Basics
2 Stripes
3 Pattern Stitches
4 Multicolor Yarns
5 Stranded Knitting
6 Intarsia
7 Other Techniques
8 Finishing Touches
9 Design Workshop

Appendix
Glossary of Techniques
Using Charts
Garment-Sizing Guidelines
Abbreviations and Symbols

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index