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Title: A Gathering of Lace: 30 Lace Knitters Share Their Secrets and Their Favorite Projects by Meg Swansen, Elaine Rowley, Alexis Xenakis ISBN: 1-893762-02-5 Publisher: XRX Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Can't completely love it, or hate it.
Comment: This is a collection of beautiful designs, and it has great color pictures of each shawl. The designs are unique and challenging. Pattern instructions are presented in chart-form only, which makes things exceptionally difficult because many of the charts are flawed. Written instructions would have been an easy way for knitters to double-check confusing instructions. An errata file can be found at www.knittinguniverse.com, but this is the only knitting book I own with errors, so it's disappointing that the errata sheet is necessary. Most of the patterns are for shawls, with a few sweaters, a hat, a pair of gloves, three sock patterns, a couple pillows, a child's pinafore, two purses, and a hat thrown in. Then, for some reason, there are pictures in the back of shawls without patterns provided, which is completely baffling in a pattern book. While I love the designs and the variety of the patterns, the book falls short of expectations. I would not recommend any of the patterns for beginners.
Rating: 5
Summary: So much lace, so little time
Comment: I have knitted only one project from this book (the Faroese shawl) and it went really well. There is a typo in the directions, but it is easy to catch (chart goes to 198 rows, written direction say to knit to 129). The beginning/finishing techniques needed were all in the book. Many blocking techniques to choose from.
This is eye candy of the first order. I am sure I have spent as many hours looking at this book as I spent knitting my one lace shawl.
One thing. I design my own things, and I like to do lace. I want to knit a lace garment that is shaped, which is to say, the hips decrease to waist and the waist increases to bust (or vice-versa for knitting from the top). With all these brilliant lace knitters, couldn't one of them have developed a shaped lace garment? There is a lace sweater done with short rows into a kind of crazy-quilt sampler of lace, but how about shaping with short rows in pattern in an unobtrusive way?
Rating: 4
Summary: I wish....
Comment: I wish that I had read the reviews before I started knitting because ,yes, there are errors in the charts.
It is a LOVELY book however and I enjoy just looking at it. I will go to the website before I start another project...
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Title: Shawls and Scarves: The Best of Knitter's Magazine (The Best of Knitter's Magazine) by Nancy J. Thomas, Alexis Xenakis ISBN: 0964639165 Publisher: XRX Books Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Folk Shawls: 25 Knitting Patterns and Tales from Around the World by Cheryl Oberle, Judith Durant, Dorothy T. Ratigan, Joe Coca, Gayle Ford ISBN: 1883010594 Publisher: Interweave Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Second Book of Modern Lace Knitting by Marianne Kinzel ISBN: 048622905X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1972 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Traditional Knitted Lace Shawls (Interweave Lace Knitting Book) by Martha Waterman ISBN: 1883010489 Publisher: Interweave Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The First Book of Modern Lace Knitting by Marianne Kinzel ISBN: 0486229041 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1972 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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