Knitting Fair Isle CD-rom
by Elizabeth Lovick
This CD-rom contains the following:
The Fair Isle Workbook
Almost everything you wanted to know about Fair Isle knitting but were afraid to ask!
The workbook runs to 121 pages. It assumes that you can knit, but that you have not done any stranded knitting or colour work. It is arranged in separate lessons on the theory and practise of Fair Isle knitting, including detailed instructions with lots of clear photos of topics such as ways to hold the yarns, steeking and dealing with mistakes.
Throughout the book the emphasis is on helping you to understand how Fair Isle knitting works and aims to give you the confidence not only to knit other peoples patterns, but to chart your own and work out your own colour schemes.
The book includes a pattern for the traditional Haaf cap and a beanie, with charts for a wide variety of alternative designs. It also includes a section on the history of knitting on the Fair Isle and gives an idea of where Shetland stranded knitting is today.
The book finishes with an article, first published in Yarn Forward magazine, following a trip to Shetland in 2006.
The whole book is lavishly illustrated in colour, but throughout photos have been used which work when printed in black and white. Each section starts on a new page, so that you can easily just print out the pages you want to work from at any one time.
Contents
1 Introduction to the projects
4 Web sites to visit
6 Books
9 Fair Isle Sampler a first project and things to make from it
20 Stitch pattern graphs
27 Techniques 1 needles and yarns
33 actual knitting techniques
39 Pattern for small bags from swatches
44 Thinking about colour
58 The incomplete history of Fair Isle Knitting
71 Pattern for Haaf cap and beanie traditional patterns
82 Alternative beanie charts alpacas, cats, rabbits, Scotties, sheep,
bears, fish, spindles, teatime, dachshunds
93 Techniques 2 mistakes
99 Techniques 3 Shaping and finishing
102 steeking
107 finishing and storing
111 A Shetland Saga the story of a trip to Shetland in 2006
The Leogh Jacket Pattern by Elizabeth Lovick
in Jamieson and Smith 2 ply Jumper Weight Wool
The pattern is adapted from a tunic in the museum on Fair Isle which was probably knitted in the croft on the island called Leogh. Charts are given for the navy version (photographed) and for a version in the original colours where maroon was dominant.
The pattern gives instructions for 10 different sizes, to fit from 28 to 60 in bust (actual size 32 to 64 ins). The length and sleeve length are easily adjustable. To make life easier, the pattern is written out twice, with 5 sizes in each copy.
The jacket photographed is the size to fit 44in bust on a 44 in model.
The notes run to 23 pages and give hints and tips for working the jacket. Detailed instructions for the grafted buttonholes are given, along with ideas and blank charts for the underarm half gussets. It is suitable as a first Fair Isle garment, but if you are unfamiliar with stranded knitting I suggest you look at my Fair Isle Workbook to get you started!
The CD-rom also contains over 350 photos of the island, the sheep and the other wild life on the island. 15 of these photos have been prepared as wall papers for both normal and wide screens.
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