Empowering book
Loved this book! Have to recommend it for knitters who want to make the leap from ho-hum to exciting!
It was wonderful to finally have a knitting designer who would give it to us straight! - In order to switch yarns on knitting patterns, you have to be willing to do some exploratory prep work, and CW explains what to do, how to have the patience to do it, and serves it all up with a sparkling wit! Extremely informative,it's an empowering book wisely advising that the effort put in will produce success in spades. Works for me!
Title is deceptive
For years I've been trying to alter knitting patterns to accommodate different types, sizes of yarn. The only way I knew how to do this was by hours of experimental "swatch" knitting, comparing stitches, measuring, etc. So, when I saw the book "Knit it Your Way: Change the Yarn to Suit Your Style" advertised, I became very excited - at last, I thought, charts, explanations, a Method that would eliminate all that "swatching." When the book arrived I could hardly wait to start reading. I quickly realized the only "Method" that was mentioned was - you guessed it - "swatching." After a few pages talking about her experience with hours and hours of knitting swatches, the author then regales us with many photos of herself in self-knit clothing. It is not something that I would even pass along to a beginning knitter. The title of this book completely misrepresents its contents.
Major Disappointment
What a disappointment! This is a book based on the empty promise that the author is going to show some new way to solve the age old knitter's dilemma of yarn substitutions and how to make them. There is nothing new in this book; she solves yarn substitutions the way we all do and have been doing for a million years; swatch, swatch, swatch. This information is available from magazines, books, classes and other knitters!She does show examples of sweaters knitted in two different weights of yarn, and for the novice knitter I suppose this could be interesting, and possibly informative. However, for any knitter who has made even one successful yarn substitution, I feel this book is an expensive retelling of an old tale. I would strongly suggest that anyone thinking about purchasing this book first seek out a copy to look through.
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