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Giveaway! ColorSTYLE

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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!

Comments

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

  3. 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!

  6. 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. 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.

  9. 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. 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…

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

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

  19. 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?

Book Review: Patty Lyons’ Knitting ER

Patty Lyons is known for teaching knitters the how and the why of knitting skills. Her Knitting Bag of Tricks helped knitters learn how stitches work, why we do things the way we do and what might be better alternatives. 

Patty Lyons’ Knitting ER aims to do the same with a particular focus on fixing mistakes in your knitting both before and after you bind off. She has deliberately made mistakes (and tons of accidental ones as well) to teach herself the best methods for fixing everything from a misplaced increase and a dropped edge stitch to faulty cable turns, messed up lace and brioche knitting disasters, to name a few. 

The book starts with a foundation of understanding how stitches work, how to read them, and the basic methods we use for fixing mistakes in knitting: frogging (ripping out several rows at a time), tinking (removing stitches across a row one stitch at a time) and dropping a stitch or several stitches on purpose to fix a mistake and ladder it back up. 

It talks about the most basic mistakes like accidental yarn overs and slipped stitches and how to fix them, as well as tips for using lifelines or slipping a smaller needle into your project to hold the stitches before you rip. 

Then we move on to more complicated fixes like picking up a dropped edge stitch, fixing a dropped cast on stitch, removing the twist from a circular knitting project (which you can only do after the first round is knit; this is an ER not a miracle station), fixing ladders in a project, tinking when you’re worked increases or decreases (or what to do when you forgot to add them) and fixing dropped stitches at the edges or short rows.

After that is the specialist’s office, which covers fix-it techniques you might not ever need, or only rarely, but it’s nice to have a place you can find the solution if you ever do need it. We’re talking fixing mistakes in a lace pattern, dealing with miscrossed cables (and counting rows in the cable so you when when it’s the right time to work it again), colorwork issues and brioche blunders. Some of these diagrams are sure to give you pause if you’ve never done something like dropping down a single cable for 20 rows and reknitting it, but again, it’s nice to know you can do those things if you need to. 

Even if your project is done it’s not too late for the doctor to do some good. You’ll also learn how to use duplicate stitch to make knit and purl stitches on the surface of a knitting project, which allows you to do things like fake a decrease you forgot, add a purl you missed in a textured stitch pattern, even fix mistakes in lace, stranded knitting, brioche and cables. 

There’s also tips for dealing with too tight cast ons and bind offs and floppy necklines, pieces knit too long or too short and very detailed instructions for grafting in probably any situation you might encounter, as well as approaches to major surgery.

A lot in these later chapters is kind of mind blowing, and if you’re not getting it from drawings, there are QR codes to videos that cover a lot of the problems and allow you to see the fixes in another way. And there are cute illustrations on the theme of knitting ER from Franklin Habit, too!

If you’ve ever wanted to know how to fix mistakes, minor or major, without having to rip out all of your knitting, this is the book you’ll want to have on your shelf for ready reference and reassurance throughout your knitting career. 

About the book: 208 pages, paperback, published 2026 by David & Charles. Suggested retail price $24.99.