Title: Knitting Modular Shawls, Wraps, and Stoles Pdf An Easy, Innovative Technique for Creating Custom Designs, with 185 Stitch Patterns
Author: Melissa Leapman
Published Date: 2018-12-25
Page: 288
Beginning with a simple triangular wedge, Leapman shows how multiple knit triangles can be joined together to create square, rectangular, trapezoidal, and semicircular shapes. Her easy and customizable technique offers knitters of all levels endless flexibility in design and yarn choices. Charted patterns for 185 different stitches allow readers to select their favorite embellishment for the main fabric of their shawl. Colorful photographs of 20 of Leapman’s original designs illustrate the creative potential of this technique.
Beautiful I love, love, love this book! I have taken up knitting several times in my life, but something always gets in the way. 6 years ago I moved to Florida and thought my knitting days were over. I had the opportunity to review this book and realized that these gorgeous shawls are the answer!This is definitely not a beginner book, but the pictures and instructions are so clear that it is definitely approachable with a little practice. There are so many different stitches here that it also is a great reference. What I really like are the designs. Some shawls can look a bit “grandmother-ish”, but these are fresh and stylish.A good knitting book should make you want to run for your needles and this one definitely does. Even though I have it electronically, I am buying it in hard copy!Master Shawl Recipes; Well-Organized & Stitches Galore PROs- written & charted, diagonal edges specified; good intro, glossary & examplesCONs- missing side-to-side & rectangular shawls, visual contents, reversibility, color waves, stitch names & history; very few horizontal inserts.This is a very useful and inspiring book for knitters, whether or not you want to make shawls or other kinds of lacy items. The well-organized modular approach will be very liberating to less experienced knitters, and all knitters will benefit from the stitch dictionary, with triangular swatches which provide for knitting diagonal edges as well as the basic rectangular stitch pattern repeat. At the end the many example shawls will provide additional ideas (and save money over purchased patterns). Even though there is room for improvement (see below), if you are only going to get one shawl book, this is the one to get.However, I am frustrated by the lack of attention to reversibility -- none of the swatches show what the back side looks like, and there is no commentary about what patterns might be good for knitting reversible items. Personally I try to make everything I knit look good on both sides.All the swatches are knitted in beige yarn -- this is a very good thing, because it helps you see what the pattern looks like very clearly. However, some swatches will naturally produce wavy rows if knitted in stripes or gradient colors, and it would be nice to explicitly show those variations (e.g. stitch #117). Consequently each swatch needs to be examine very carefully to consider wave potential, if that is what you want. (For example, compare Shawl #6 with the much better use of color in Tori Gurbisz's similar "Ecstatic" shawl on Ravelry.)And there are only a handful of horizontal insertions, which can be real workhorses of shawl knitting (though many of the patterns can be adapted). But most knitters will have other stitch dictionaries on hand to supplement the approach in this book. :}Also, the names & stories of these stitches are almost completely absent. If someone likes stitch #70, there is no way to know that is the same as the classic Feather & Fan. Only the first 9 stitches are named, and no stitch history is given -- did she find them in an 18th century source? Bavarian or Japanese stitch dictionary? in one of Barbara Walker's Stitch Treasuries? did the author unvent it herself? She does include a few nupps, but for those who like that aesthetic, no mention is given of the fact that these are traditional Estonian shawl stitch used in many other patterns from that region.Practically every shawl shape she illustrates is some sort of symmetric triangle. There is no attention to rectangular stoles, or rectangular shawls which have a central rectangle (Shetland, Orenberg, Estonian) -- but of course, these are easy to configure based on the extensive information that is in this book.But another fun shape that is missing is the more modern side-by-side asymmetrical triangular shawl, of which many are on Ravelry. A few basic guidelines about edge increase and decrease rates and examples would be useful.Finally, I wish it had a visual table of contents such as Stanfield's Knitting Stitch Library (AISN B00RWSWDLW), to make it easier to find (or re-find) stitches I am interested in.Beautiful and comprehensive - will use for years to come Many thanks to Netgalley, Storey Publishing, and Melissa Leapman for an ARC in exchange for a review. My opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advanced copy.Shawls are one of the most versatile pieces you can have in your wardrobe. They are an excellent layering piece, can be worn many different ways and are easy to make. You can use almost any different yarn weight so you can use your special lace weight skein that you bought when you were somewhere special, or a worsted weight that you have laying around in your stash. They make beautiful gifts and the knitted shawls of today are not what your grandma used to make.If you are new to knitting you might not know that Melissa Leapman is a very well known and prolific designer. Her patterns have been in all the major publications for both knitting and crochet. She has written many books herself, some of which I own and I really do love her designs. Part of wanting to check out this book was because I saw that she was the author. She does not disappoint.This book is truly amazing. There are so many components to it, so I’ll try and break it down for you. First she has 7 steps in creating the perfect shawl. First you choose your silhouette. She breaks down the shawl into the smallest component - the wedge. Then, depending on how you want your shape, you decide how many wedges you want. Two wedges creates the triangle shawl. Once you start adding on, there are different ways you can put the wedges together to get different shapes. You can use up to six wedges. The second step is the choose the stitch pattern. She has many in the book, but you can use any stitch you want, from any stitch pattern book. She has accounted for how to adjust to different number of stitches in the stitch pattern, so really anything can work. Then you decide on your background texture. Choosing between a knit background or a garter stitch background will really make a difference to the appearance of the stitch pattern. Step four asks you to choose your edging and step five a cast on tab, which goes hand in hand with the edging you have chosen. Step six means choosing a border and step seven a bind off and that completes the steps in constructing a shawl. You can choose a solid fabric or decide on a lacy, more openwork design, the choices are endless, but by breaking it into these easy steps nothing is overwhelming.There are fixed patterns that you can follow step by step with picots of what the end product looks like. What is even better is that there is a gallery of shawls at the back set up so that you can see how each of the seven steps apply to each of the patterns. Simple substitution and small tweaks give you another jumping off point to creating your own design. Of course, you can be as creative as your imagination and remember, if you don’t like it, you can always undo it! There are no mistakes. I love that you can all take baby steps and get more creative as you become more comfortable with experience. There are many diagrams and charts that clearly help you map out what style you would like to make. Even with the most basic design, and a simple stitch pattern by simple changing one or two small elements like the border, or the edging, you can end up with a completely new looking shawl. The possibilities are endless!This book is so easy to use, full of inspiration and really limitless in ideas, I think it will become a staple that you will refer to many times for many years. I am so excited! I can’t wait to cast on my first project. Now hmmm, which yarn shall I choose??
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