With each garment photographed in color against the breathtaking scenery of western Ireland, The Celtic Collection is a visual delight as well as a rich source of exquisite patterns.

    Lewis dissects and charts each pattern to make them accessible to lace knitters of all skill levels. In this book, you will find complete written and charted instructions for all 91 patterns in the sampler. Full instructions for four lace projects: a shawl, a sweater, a girl's dress, and socks/stockings. Detailed directions to design and chart your own lace patterns. Information for machine knitters to convert hand-knitting charts to machine.

    Newton offers in-depth information on shaping and fitting, color and graphics, dressmaker details, finding design inspiration, creating textured fabrics, and more.In addition, Designing Knitwear includes patterns for 16 garments and dozens of partial schematics for you to develop into your own original designs.

    

    Contents include: designing patterned sweaters, traditional knitting patterns from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, South America; adapted knitting patterns - Celtic, Greece, The Caucasus, Middle East, Far East; birds and flowers, sea and shoreline, the inner landscape

    Mr FortywinksO. YummyGodfrey GadaboutBertie BloomerSidney Slapstick

    Each stitch pattern is photographed, some in color, and every stitch pattern is charted, so it is useful to knitters and crocheters who do not read Japanese.

    Whether you cross-stitch, embroider or knit, this collection of over 250 traditional European motifs, bands and borders -- some dating back to the Middle Ages -- is a delight!

    

    Complete with more than 750 stitches, it explains everything from the tools and equipment to the types of yarns, from correcting mistakes to adding finishing touches. Full-color photographs.