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Top-Down Knit Sweaters

16 Versatile Styles Featuring Texture, Lace, Cables, and Colorwork

By: Corrina Ferguson

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Paperback | 15 March 2020 | Edition Number 1

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120 Pages

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21.6 x 27.8 x 1.3

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Scrumptious texture, winding cables, and mesmerizing colourwork will take your knitwear wardrobe to the next level of fashion.

All of these pieces are designed to go from office to errands to weekends. They are polished yet comfortable, closet staples with interesting details that will make you feel well-dressed every time you put one on. From textured pullover to cabled raglan to wrap-front cardigan, the 16 designs in this book will take you anywhere you want to go.

Knitting sweaters from the top down offers many advantages knitters appreciate, not the least of which is that it minimizes the amount of seaming you have to do to finish your sweater. It also allows more easy options for customization in the yoke, raglan placement, overall length, and armhole length. Since you can try your sweater on as you go, you can make sure that you are working to the exact fit you desire.

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Do you remember that advert from years ago, I think it was for razors, where the man said he liked the product so much, he bought the company? Well I liked this book so much I bought it!

The first chapter is a quick run-through of what top-down knitting is and what you will need to make a top-down sweater. The style of the writing is friendly and informal and that continues through the book. The contents are a mix of sweaters, a waistcoat, cardigans, short-sleeved summer tees and jackets. Some have cables, some are plain, and some have little lace or colourwork on them. There are a few interesting twists on the yoke - you may well be imagining these from my description of the contents.

There is a combination of written instructions and charts and there are schematics for each pattern. The yarn appears to be from the USA but there is a description of them and a list of how many metres to a ball, so that ought to help anyone substituting with UK yarns.

I should say that all the models are youngsters, in their late teens I would imagine: the garments all look wonderful on them. Yet they are not so youthful looking that I could not see a large middle-aged woman wearing some of them quite happily. I think the book would definitely suit those with teenagers to knit for. Although some of the patterns are a little complex, any competent knitter would, I believe, feel able to make any of these patterns. I found it a cheerful, bright and breezy read and it really made me want to create some of the garments, hence buying a copy of the book for myself.

-- Rebecca Price * SlipKnot - Issue 169 *

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