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Summary: inspiring ideas for great knitting fun!
Review: My book arrived yesterday and as the previous reivewer said, sometimes you get a book,,,its fun to look at,but easily put away as there are so only some projects really worth making.
In most of my reviews I state that I ONLY purchase a book that will be:
1)-helping me learn more techinques,, and,,,
2)- be able to be used for many years to come.
This is true of this book. XRX books has done it again,,,
I must add that the sole reason for purchasing this book was that I had seen a lovely lace wedding bag and the availability of making matching lace gloves.
I have a son getting married this fall, and his financee had a difficult time finding gloves for her dress ( the women at the shop had never really encountered this before!)
Her fingers are very long so she can't find long gloves to fit her.
So I looked around,,thinking I would make her a wedding shawl,and a bag,,,, but I did find gloves and wanted to surprise her.
There is a matching lace pattern in this book for both,,so this is the main reason was for the purchase of this book.
BUT,,,,,,,,,,,,,
I am oh so pleasantly surprised by all the other offerings!
There are so many unique bags (and NOT all felted either,,)
Trendy now,, but who knows in 5 years??
I felt that they had come up with some pretty unique designs and was impressed.
Other purse books I have looked at ( I looked at others before making a purchase,) are same, old same old,,
,,, One of the other purse books by Rowan is nothing more that knitted pillows folded together!( HOW that book ever got printed is beyond me,,its that bad,,)
I am happy with this book and will learn entrelac and mitered kntting thru making bags and totes ( not socks,,,, that will come later,,)
,,as well as new cable/aran stitches for a backpack.
Now, the only problem is ,,,do I keep what I make,,,,OR do I knit them for presents?
I am pretty generous with my needlework,,but,,,,I love a closet filled with bags,,
As a nurse ,,uniforms are worn to work , so bags are the ONLY thing I can make to wear change frequently.
Socks ,,unless white ,,are questionable for work,, ( do I want to chance gettng betadine on handknit socks??)
I am looking forward to few nice projects for spring/summer knitting AND wear!
I always have a sweater going on circular needles but this will be great knitting to take on vacation as well as to WEAR on vacation when complete,,,,
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Summary: Something (different) for everyone
Review: There's nothing I love more than a new knitting book. I love flipping through the pages and imagining all the things I could make. Most of the time, though, after the first flip-through, I've lost heart. I'd never be able to make that, I think. Or: I'd never want to make that. But not so with Bags: A Knitters' Dozen.
On my first skim-through, my imagination went wild: "I want one of those...and one of those...and one of those..." These aren't your plain-jane everyday old knit-two-squares-and-sew-`em-together bag patterns. There are different patterns here-patterns that haven't been repeated over and over in previous knitting books. There are felted bags and textured bags and fancy detailed bags. There are handbags and tote bags and beach bags. And-best of all, there are easy bags and intermediate bags and a-little-more-challenging bags. Bags features more than 20 different patterns for bags-plus a few extras, like a vest and a sweater. You'll even learn about new techniques, like needle felting.
I've already made two of the bags in the book, and I love them. They're different, and they were fun to knit. I even pushed myself and tried the intermediate patterns, and I didn't have a problem. I only ran into a few difficulties with the patterns-but you'll be able to catch them without a problem if you're paying attention.
Pick up a copy of Bags: A Knitters' Dozen, and you'll want to knit bags for everyone you know (it's never too early to start knitting for next Christmas, you know...).
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