A Creative Guide to Knitted Lace

by Jan Eaton

Book Overview

Instructions and ideas for creating ten lace designs feature in this guide. These range from a lace-edged handkerchief to a Victorian bedspread and tablecloth. Information about the needles and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185368290X
• ISBN13: 9781853682902
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Introduction to Lace knitting

This is a great book to help you get started in lace knitting if you already know how to knit. There are some really nice projects to do and it is explained well. Also, there are written and charted instructions.

A great book to start lace knitting, and will keep you going

This book has a section on the basics--such as how to read charted patterns, how do do edges on lace, and has a stitch pattern library for stitches and edgings. So you can learn about knitting lace and then use this book afterwards to design your own things. So you won't outgrow this book. There is also some knitting history included in the book, for fun readingThere are designs for edgings and cloths. Edgings are great added to towels (makes a great gift--take a handtowel and sew on a handknitted lace edging or sew a lace insertion, which is knitted with two straight edges instead of one scalloped one and sew it onto the towel.) They are also a good learning tool for lace knitting, as they repeat a lot, and if you goof up on cotton edging yarn, you can just rip it out and begin again.The author is also a designer of cross-stitch patterns. She has patterns for cross-stitch (no knitting) at her site ....