Knitting with Novelty Yarns: Exploring Color, Texture and Style

by Barry Klein and Laura Militzer Bryant

Knitting with Novelty Yarns Exploring Color, Texture, and Style You've seen the dazzling colors and luxurious textures of novelty yarns spilling over the shelves of your local knitting shop. Discover... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564773574
• ISBN13: 9781564773579
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Martingale and Company
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

excellent resource

This is an outstanding guide for using novelty yarns. Laura and Barry ( I have met them both) offer suggestions for using all that stash you have acquired, as well as various ways to use a variety of fibers.

Very useful info

I am a newbie to knitting and wanted books about novelty yarns. I bought a couple that did not give any useful information at all. However, this book provides useful information about working with various fibers, and stitches to use with novelty yarns. It shows examples of different stitches using a variety of novelty yarns. This is invaluable to choosing a yarn and a stitch you like without having to waste yarn trying things out. On the negative side, I would say the projects are a bit conservative and don't display the wonderful yarns to their best advantage. Every project is a sweater. For gorgeous projects that you would LOVE to wear, I suggest Exquisite Little Knits by Schreier & Kimmelstiel. Plenty of items that use only a couple balls so you can afford to make them. These two books together make a good starting point for novelty yarns.

One of the Best

I found this book very inspirational. The beautiful color images of the knitted pieces made from unique combinations of novelty yarns offered many ideas for my own work. Seeing both Militzer's version and Klein's version of the same pattern provokes very different design concepts as well as color use. Excellent resource, I find I go back to it regularly for inspiration. A busy knitter.

What a Great Book!

This is a wonderful and creative book. One can almost feel the yarns texture from the lovely photos. This is one of those books that inspires even if you don't think there's another sweater in you. I can't wait to open up my stash and get going on one of these beauties.

Fabulous!

This book, written by the owners of Prism and Trendsetter yarns, is a fiber lover's delight! These folks know and love their fibers. The book is chock full of yummy yarns, beautifully photographed in luscious color. Not just a "pretty face", it is also a great source for practical information about the novelty yarns that fascinate all fiber fiends! The book is well organized into sections detailing fiber types, basic fitting instructions, and construction techniques. The real joy for this knitter, however, are the sections on "Knitting Successfully with Novelty Yarns," (including actual pictures of pattern stitches and the different results obtained with different types of novelty yarns), and the "Flock Exchange"; patterns for sweaters and wraps, worked two different ways by each of the authors, using different yarns, and sometimes different designing details. Both of these sections are especially filled with hints and tips on how to get the best results from the yarns. While this book will undoubtedly be criticized by some for using expensive, possibly "harder to find in your local yarnshop" yarns (they use their Prism and Trendsetter yarns), detailed schematics and gauges are given, and the possibilities for creating with novelty yarns seem endless. I thought this book was a bit pricey for a paperback, but found the photographs well worth it. I have already incorporated one of the slip stitch patterns, which showcases novelty yarn quite nicely, into a shawl I am currently working on. Cannot wait to try some more! If you enjoy working with novelty yarns (or just drooling over them), I hightly recommend this book.