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Giveaway! ColorSTYLE

August 27, 2009 by Terrye

colorstyleInnovative to traditional, 17 designs in this book. Available from Interweave Press ($24.95). This is the 6th book in the STYLE series and features classic and innovative use of traditional color techniques by top designers.

Fair Isle, intarsia and slip stitch, or use a combination, this book will encourage you to create your own masterpieces. A Design Notebook chapter details the fundamental ways to incorporate color into knitting. Clear explanations and helpful tips for the most frequently used c0lorwork techniques.

Even if you’re a beginning knitter, this book shows easy ways to achieve colorful effects in your knitting.

Go here to order: http://www.interweavestore.com/Knitting/Books/Color-Style.html

What? You want it free? Ok! I can do that! I have one copy to give away. Let’s go with a randomly picked (by my puppy, of course) comment about your experiences with using color in your knitting!

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Comments

  1. Viviana says

    August 27, 2009 at 8:57 am

    Color knitting and I seem to be sooo incompatible; I’ve been wondering if this book would help solve that problem!

  2. Salma Majeed says

    August 27, 2009 at 9:44 am

    I knitted frocks for baby girls a long time ago n hope to get the book and start new project now

  3. Jeanne says

    August 27, 2009 at 10:06 am

    I love this book, having borrowed it from the library… Right now, I’m putting a hold on new books, etc. because of back-to-school expenses.
    Oh, you want to know about my color knitting? It’s a great stashbuster and looks great too!

  4. Turtle says

    August 27, 2009 at 11:03 am

    oh wow! got to peek at this at the library and it looked great!

  5. laleeleela says

    August 27, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    Looks like a great book!

  6. Carmen says

    August 27, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    Interweave has such good books. I’m a beginner, so I haven’t experimented much – but I love to try colors that are different from what’s called for in the pattern.

  7. Ellen says

    August 27, 2009 at 10:44 pm

    This book looks amazing. I jumped right in to intarsia for my first scarf (a black on gray skull for my rocker boyfriend) and my first hat (a 70s inspired mushroom theme for my brother). I love color work and really want to improve my skills.

  8. Diane says

    August 28, 2009 at 12:18 am

    I love using bright colours in my knitting. It brightens up the gloomy west coast winter days.

  9. Samantha says

    August 28, 2009 at 4:06 am

    I tend to be somewhat timid with using multiple colors. I have done some basic striping and beginner strand work. I would like to learn intarsia

  10. Betsy says

    August 29, 2009 at 3:37 am

    I think fair isle can be the ultimate stash buster…wish I was better at it…wish I had a good book to refer to…I was really sorry when Sally Melville’s book didn’t reference it seriously…

  11. Darcy says

    August 29, 2009 at 7:22 am

    I would love to have this book I have only knit with 2 colors at a time.Hugs Darcy
    darcysknottyknitter@gmail.com

  12. Linda says

    August 30, 2009 at 9:58 am

    I love Fair Isle knitting – but am usually too scared to change the given colours in the pattern. Perhaps the book will make me braver!

  13. Shay Williams says

    September 1, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    I am just trying to learn to knit so I don’t really have any experiences to share but I wouldn’t mind winning to book to have for the future

  14. suzala says

    September 5, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    My favorite pair of two color, stranded scandinavian snow flake pattern mittens was my first project ever when I was 11; 40 years ago!!! I have been wielding the needles ever since but never ventured to Fair Isle.. Maybe the time has come, I feel like I’ve knit everything else! sz
    Ps.. I love your blog!

  15. Kitten With A Whiplash says

    September 8, 2009 at 8:25 am

    This would be a wonder book for me as I branch out into more dyeing. I’ve enjoyed creating the colors and combinations, the but still haven’t done much knitting with them.

  16. Maureen says

    September 11, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    This would be a fantastic help for me. It is a bit hard for me to see what colors go with others and the patterns that might make the colors come alive.

  17. Juliette says

    December 11, 2009 at 2:26 pm

    Colorwork in my knitting has mostly been achieve by buying self-striping yarn!!! I would love to learn though 🙂 c’mon puppy paw!

  18. Connie says

    March 10, 2011 at 9:48 am

    I haven’t conquered color knitting yet, I think I need more inspiration. Hope I win this book!

  19. Paula Cyphert says

    September 22, 2012 at 1:48 pm

    I love color work, it brightens up everything. It has been awhile since I’ve done much of it. This book may jump start me back into it. Thank you and good luck everyone.

Have you read?

Knit a Garter Stitch Blanket with a Twist

When I first started knitting again after a long absence from the craft (which has now been almost 25 years ago!) I really didn’t like garter stitch that much. I found it super boring, somehow even more boring than knitting stockinette stitch in the round, even though it’s exactly the same thing.

Over the years I’ve softened my opinion, and even grown to like garter stitch. There’s nothing wrong with being plain, and actually the texture of garter stitch is more interesting than stockinette.

Also there are fun things you can do with garter stitch to make it more interesting if you want to, such as adding stripes, working on the bias, or doing fun effects to change the look.

That’s the way with the Bernat Twist My Way Garter Knit Blanket. Using combinations of casting on and binding off creates what they call a Swiss cheese effect along two sides of the blanket. This is a lot of fun in the self-striping ombre yarn they chose for the pattern, but it would also be fun in a solid color or making your own stripes.

Despite the dramatic effect, this pattern is rated easy. It’s worked from side to side (if you consider the “cheesy” edges the top and bottom) and has an eight-row repeat that involves binding off and then casting on again to make the holes. They’re kind of like giant buttonholes.

Once you get the hang of it it’s a pretty easy repeat to remember, and it will be smooth knitting as big as you want to make it.

You can download this pattern from the Yarnspirations website for free, or you can buy a kit direct from them that includes the yarn you need (and knitting needles if you need those, too). Bernat Sport Ombre Twist, which is what is used in the pattern, comes in 12 self patterning colors and is a DK weight acrylic yarn.

[Photo: Yarnspirations]

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