The Essential Guide to Color Knitting Techniques - 2nd Edition by Margaret Radcliffe (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

Jazz up your knitting with the complexity and visual appeal of multicolor patterns. Margaret Radcliffe's practical advice and step-by-step instruction unravel the intricacies of combining two or more yarn colors and reveal a beautiful world of limitless design possibilites. From simple tricks for making multicolor yarns more exciting to the precise details of managing stranding and intarsia, here are all the inspiring options for playing with color in knitting.