Knitting Nature: 39 Designs Inspired by Patterns in Nature
by Norah Gaughan
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Author: Norah GaughanPhotographer: Thayer Allyson Gowdy
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-06-01
ISBN: 1584794844
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
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Book Review: 3.5 stars. Patterns sized a bit big; not for the beginning knitter
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an interesting book. Some of the garments are a little "out there", looking like stuff you'd only see on a fashion runway, and not something anyone would choose to wear in real life (unless they lost a bet), while others are stunning and have me itching to cast on right away.
My one major complaint with this book is that most of the patterns have the smallest size at 36" bust or larger. I don't consider that an extra-small. For a coat, that's okay, since you usually want a bit of positive ease for it to fit over your other clothes, but for a pullover, it's just too big. If you're a petite woman like me, you'd better be good at being able to resize patterns, or you're going to end up with a lot of pretty tents. I'm a fairly experienced knitter, so this is not a problem for me, but it would be very frustrating for a beginner.
Most of the patterns are charted, so again, not for a beginner. I was also surprised by the lack of waist shaping, or with the fact that the round-yoked sweaters had the lower pieces knit flat and seamed (why not just knit the whole thing in the round?) Many of the sweaters also had no finishing on the lower edges, but were left to roll, a look I find unflattering on nearly every body type. Again, all these things are easy to modify if you're an experienced knitter, but would be very frustrating for a beginner.
And as others have mentioned, there are a lot of pattern errors. I found an errata page on abebooks website, and it was mindboggling how long the list of errors was. When I purchased this book new from Amazon this year (December 2009), I got the second edition, so most of the errors had been corrected, but there were still a few. So definitely search out the errata before you begin to avoid frustration.
All in all, I'm glad I bought this book, as there are at least four garments I definitely plan to make from it, and perhaps more in the future, but I'm also glad I didn't buy it at the beginning of my learning curve, before I learned how to downsize garments, or I would have been very disappointed.
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