Vogue® Knitting on the Go! Bags & Backpacks

Book Overview

"Features an interesting mix of designs for purses, totes, and backpacks, including a child's backpack in the shape of a lamb. A good, easy-on-the-budget choice." Library Journal. "Contains 20... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573890189
• ISBN13: 9781573890182
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Sixth&Spring Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 0.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Vogue Knitting on the Go:Bags and Backpacks

This book has a lot of great patterns and will be a great addition to my library of craft books. It has good pictures of the finished project. I really like the Vogue Knitting books.

from beginner to experienced

This small book has projects for all tastes. 27 bags and backpacks to knit and have fun. Has a picture for every item.I know it can be difficult to get the right yarns and accesories if you live abroad or if you don't want to spend lots of money, but with little imagination, you can adjust this ideas and use other yarn and another kind of handles for a bag. Just check gauge and you're done!! great buy for teens or young adults who want to start knitting their own bags or for a mother or grandma who wants to spoil her children

A Great, Simple Way to Start

This book is a wonderful way for someone to start making satisfying knitting projects. It would be a good book for a pre-teen who wanted to make simple projects for sale at craft fairs. The later patterns get more complex and are truly beautiful. This is an excellent addition to the very good Vogue on the Go Series.

Bags--a great knitted gift idea (never worry about the fit!)

First off, these Vogue books are very clever; they are the perfect size to fit in your bag when you take your knitting on the train, plane, doctor's office, etc.Secondly, this book has bag designs contributed by TOP designers like Sasha Kagan, Deborah Newton and Nicki Epstein. That's great. These particular designers (not to leave out the others who contributed to this book) are great at colorwork and embellishment. In fact, if you like these bags, you'd probably get a lot out of Nicki Epstein's book Knitted Embellishments. With that book and the bags, you can customize the patterns and add fringe, cords, embroidery and more. You can extend these 20 patterns to make your own designed bags.Bags, especially backpacks, are very in with kids right now. And why not make an evening bag for your next gala night out. Or use the patterns to try that one ball of interesting novelty yarn you have but don't have a pattern to use it with? If you like knitting bags, you might also like home-decor items like pillows. Check out Shangold's Design Source book of Home Decor, Nicki Epstein's Knitting for your Home,Erika Knight's Comforts of Home. For more bags, see Zoe Mellor's book Head to Toe Knits : 25 Colorful Accessories for Your Home and Children, with more bags and toys, plus home items as well.

Another Little Gem from Vogue Knitting

What a great series these "On the Go" books from Vogue Knitting are! I own several from this series and am always amazed that they can pack so much into such a tiny book. This one is no exception. It is small enough to slip into a knitting bag, it has just enough reference to go along with the patterns and the patterns are varying levels of difficulty but all very fashionable. There were instructions for beautiful beaded bags, felted bags and cute backpacks. I am a beginning knitter and there was plenty in this little book to keep me occupied, as well as plenty that inspire me to improve my skills.