Easy Knitted Accessories: Fashionable Projects for the Novice Knitter

• Publisher:   Search Press Ltd
• Number Of Pages:   128
• Publication Date:   2004-10
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   1844480429
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9781844480425

The time-honored craft of knitting meets today?s colorful and funky styles in Easy Knitted Accessories. 25 projects for scarves, hats, bags, gloves and socks have a fun, contemporary look and are fast and easy to knit. Readers are first led through the basics of the techniques (including knitting with color, knitting with beads, changing colorways and embroidery) and then the book moves on to step-by-step instructions, photos and illustrations for each project. Readers will enjoy creating accessories like baby booties, hats with earflaps, gloves with beads, funky beach bags, snuggly leg warmers and much more. Complete instruction on techniques allows the reader to learn from scratch or brush up on their skills. Full-color photos of each finished project inspire knitters to create and enjoy these great accessories.

A book to stimulate your creativity, this is the one. Steps you out of your comfort zone while challenging your skills.

I am sorry I purchased this book. I purchased it based on all the previous positive reviews. There are 20 projects in this book but none of them produce items that I would use or wear or give away as a gift. This book is meant to appeal to beginners or to be used by knitters who want gift ideas. It has beautiful photographs, etc, and a nice introduction, but almost every project is poorly constructed. When so many beautiful items can be knitted using circular needles, this author opted for straight. Beginners have to struggle with matching seams, etc, ending up with a lumpy, bumpy hat, or pair of mittens, or whatever. If I began this way I would have abandoned knitting. I recommend finding another source for easy fun knitting projects.

This book has a bunch of very nice patterns. Many that I would like to make. She also makes substituting yarn easy by giving all the information you'd need to choose your yarn. The reason that I give it four stars instead of five is because of the limitation in sizes. For all the patterns that require a size: hats, gloves, mittens, slippers, and socks, everything is sized for "an average adult women." It would have been nice to have had more of a size range included, and also things sized for children. While I may have an average adult women's head and feet, my hands are definitely on the small size, which means shortening fingers, etc.

I love this book-- first of all, it's full of patterns that make me drool (and let's face it, most knitting books contain just a couple of really lust-worthy patterns for a beginner knitter). Among the things I want to make: delicious knitted driving gloves, beaded socks, beaded scarf and hat set, cabled mitts, the cute cat-eared hat, fingerless gloves....I could go on (you can see all the projects if you "look inside" the book--very useful. Thank you Amazon and Krause publishing)
Apart from the designs in the book which are creative, beautiful and actually worth making (this is not another collection of garter stitch scarves in different colours), every time a new skill is introduced, there are clear instructions, graphics and pictures to help along a knitter trying for example, beading or intarsia for the first time. The author also offers ideas and tips for using each pattern in a slightly different way by varying colour/texture. And the yarn information is clearly presented to facilitate substitution... (did I mention that I love this book?)
I'm what one might consider an advanced beginner and I adore this book and can't recommend it highly enough. It's easy, but contains enough challenges to keep things interesting and inspiring. I'd give it 10 stars if I could.

I have to start out by saying I am about as novice a knitter as there could be, so the 'easy' in the title was enticing. Looking through the patterns now, while they are perhaps a bit beyond my skill, seem varied in skill level, with some easy, some that seem more dificult. The projects are not your typical scarf, mittens, etc. that you usually find in 'easy' books; they are fun, stylish and creative. Quite a few projects are beaded and different/unique cabling is used to create many of the styles. The instructions in the beginning are helpful, some of the better ones I have seen, with clear pictures and tips and even instructions for fairisle and intarsia. I can't wait to get started knitting!

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