Knitted Home

Product Description

This book is for people who enjoy knitting & exploring the different patterns & textures that hand knitting can create & who want to use these skills to produce beautiful pieces for their homes. H&-crafted items always add an extra layer of personality & interest to a room & a beautifully knitted & designed piece whether it is a cover for an existing piece of furniture or a wonderful throw is a covetable & unique accessory. Ruth Cross draws on her experience of designing organic & freeform collections to guide you through the process of making & creating your own items. Taking an experimental approach Ruth combines traditional stitches with new stitches she has devised herself. She creates desirable fabrics that can adorn many different items around the home from easy chairs to footstools a doorstop to a table runner vase covers to wall hangings. Throughout the book there are more than 20 complete patterns for you to create these beautiful projects. However Ruth also encourages & gives advice on how to experiment for yourself to produce your own designs. Starting with the very basics
- simple knitting & purling
- & progressing to add further texture & embellishment she guides you through a range of different stitch patterns & techniques. As she goes through she shows how you can adapt these patterns to different sizes scales & shapes so that they can be widely applied around the home to create competely personal pieces.