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Reviewed in Italy on September 9, 2013
Il libro è arrivato velocissimo, le sciarpe sono veramente innovative e interessanti le tecniche di lavorazione. Vale la pena cercare di capire l'inglese per farle, in italiano non c'è nulla di equivalente.
Catherine
Reviewed in France on October 25, 2013
Un livre agréable et bien détaillé qui nous donne à explorer des effets 3D, des mouvements de formes composées, des entrelacements très ingénieux.Judicieux, réellement innovant, et récréatif !
chantal bonnevault
Reviewed in France on July 1, 2010
A première vue il s'agit d'un ième livre d'écharpes... Mais on l'ouvre et là on découvre des petites merveilles de tricot: des rangs raccourcis, des croisements inhabituels d'aiguilles, des changements de grosseur d'aiguilles en cours d'ouvrages etc, etc. Au final ça donne des courbes, des vagues, des plissés qui font que votre écharpe sera bien plus qu'une écharpe: un vrai bijou! Les explications sont claires et les pas à pas des diverses techniques sont en fin de livre. Indispensable et très fashion.
Knitter Designer
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2010
Wow! Soon as I started thumbing through this book I wanted to go to my huge yarn stash (or better yet, yarn store) to get started on on one of these beautiful, distinctive patterns. There is a wide variety of patterns, and each provide detailed instructions. The great thing is these scarves use challenging techniques that are greets fun to try and you end up with a scarf that is fun to wear and a stand-out for showing the world there are still new ways to show individual style. Be prepared though - some patterns require multiple sets of needles.
S. F.
Reviewed in Germany on November 12, 2009
ochnöh, Schals ... wie langweilig, dachte ich bevor ich dann doch neugierig wurde und es bestellte. Ein Aha-Effekt nach dem anderen, fast jedes Stück hat eine ganz neue Idee, die sich natürlich nicht nur für Schals verwenden lässt. Inspiration pur. Fotos und Beschreibung sind sehr gut verständlich, das übliche Strickenglisch vorausgesetzt. Mit etwas räumlicher Vorstellungskraft versteht man die Anleitungen theoretisch, spätestens wenn man sie nach und nach genau befolgt, und das Wunderding in Händen hält, bleibt es stellenweise knifflig, aber mit Übung kommt auch Leichtigkeit und Meisterschaft.Die meisten Schals sind eher schmal und dadurch gut mit allen möglichen Garderoben zu kombinieren (und schnell fertig!), voluminöse Wärme bringt mehrfaches um den Hals schlingen.Was mir an den Projekten besonders gut gefällt, ist, dass ganz normale Wolle, mal dicker mal dünner, mal ein- mal zweifädig Verwendung findet und es keine Mühe machen dürfte, die Musterstücke in anderen Garnen entstehen zu lassen. Eine Chance für die vielen Knäuel die sich bei Strickfans im Lauf der Zeit so ansammeln - oder ein neues Garn, da man nicht so viel braucht, darf es ruhig was Besonderes sein. Hauptsache angenehm in der Hand und am Hals.Lynne Barr mag eigentlich gedeckte Farben, deswegen bekam sie für dieses Buch einen Koffer voller wunderschöner Rottöne, damit ihr friedlichelegantes Grau lebendiger wird. Also ein mustergültiges Buch für Use What You Have.
Ckruisin
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2008
I plan on making 3 from this book for presents. All are for guys, and the patterns I've chosen aren't your typical scarf and I think work for men. One thing to note - many of these scarves are VERY narrow - 3 inches in some cases. While this may be appropriate for the design and yarn weight (scarf could be too bulky if wider)note the width before you start. You may want to adjust the pattern/yarn to make a wider item. There is no yarn substitution guide.
AuntieDepression
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2008
...you'll like Lynn Barr's inventive, inquiring, imaginative approach to scarves. To a great extent it's an architectural approach, not a decorative one. If you're looking for intricate stitch patterns and color-driven effects, look elsewhere. These scarves are knitted in the simplest of stitches -- garter and rib. But Lynn Barr manipulates these into three-dimensional shapes that twist, undulate and bubble up into completely unexpected designs. I don't find every one of them equally wonderful: some made me smile; others seemed laughable. (And a few very derivative.) Among the goodies: A scarf that's a string of black "pearls;" a clever (and warm) combination of shawl collar and scarf; a two-tone scarf woven of i-cord; ribs that ripple into 3-D waves. Barr's creativity would seem to be endless and her experiments succeed more often than they fail.A word about the production, which other readers have mentioned. This is a photo-heavy book, with full-page shots of completed scarves. Each brief introduction to a design uses another full page. Margins are wide and type is indeed small. But the type is well-spaced and patterns are not word-heavy so, even with two cataract surgeries, a corneal transplant and strong reading glasses, I have no trouble reading it. The how-to photos, which often illustrate Barr's unusual multi-needle techniques, are among the clearest I've ever seen. I'm less delighted with the big pictures of the finished objects. Tyllie Barbosa is described as a food and product photographer. As a creative director and former editor, I'd hire her any day. The styling is beautiful and evocative, the lighting is great. But this is knitting photography: the reader contemplating spending weeks on a project wants to see what the whole item looks like, not an arty cropped or folded version.
ReadNReVu
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2008
This book has some really interesting patterns--unusual would definitely apply to some of them. The colors used in the book are mostly earth tones, and you want a more or less plain yarn so that the stitch detail/construction shows through. I know I'm not the only person tired of the novelty yarns and boring garter/stockinette scarves. Great ideas for using up oddball yarns as well. The Circle Scarf would look great with a solid or varigated main section with the circles in complementary colors.However, I was disappointed in the very small type (especially considering how much blank margin is left on each page) and the very dark-colored yarns used for many of the models (hard to see detail). When you enlarge the pattern so that you can read it, the pictures don't reproduce all that well, and that includes some of the technique pictures as well--would rather have had good drawings. Also, there was a lack of pattern multiple information--sometimes you want to make a scarf wider or more narrow, but not have to change yarns and/or needle size.Buy used, as I did, because you'll be spending the money you save enlarging the patterns and the techniques on a copy machine so that you can read them without eyestrain.3.5 stars.
B. Hetherington
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2007
There have been a lot of lovely knitting books that have come out in recent months but none that has made me as excited as this one. I wasn't sure whether to get it or not as I am not that keen on scarf knitting to be honest but I thought I'd give it a go. I really wasn't prepared for what was hiding beneath the rather unexciting covers. This book is full of new ways of looking at knitting and the patterns rely on exciting ways to construct shapes, often based on architectural inspiration.As soon as I started looking at the patterns I just wanted to get out my needles to try the techniques which involve short rows to form curves which I am familiar with, but also using double pointed needles to pick up and move stitches and wander off into experiments of design and construction.I think this is possibly one of the most exciting knitting books I have ever seen and I can't recommend it highly enough for those who want to move out of the box and experiment with new ideas.
M. Poller
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2007
There are knitters who love to knit just for the fun and challenges and others who are mainly interested in the knitting as end product. This book is more for the first type of knitter. I am hopeful that by making these scarves I can add new techniques to use in other types of knitting. There are several techniqes new to me and they are well described with up-close photos. The scarves are very structural based many of them on buildings. Next time I look at a strangely shaped building, I will have to think about using it in a scarf! The colors used here are pretty dead but there are some really interesting scarves that colors used well could really brighten up. The scarf that most interests me is using i-cords in weaving them. Short rows are used a lot to make interesting spirals. The difficulty level varies but even a beginner could make some of them and then move on after that. Yarns called for are pretty easy to find as they are mainly worsted weight although the ones here are a bit more pricey than others. Knitter's choice. I am not very excited by the color photos but the up-close technical ones taken by the author as she knit are really good. Also, a good spiral binding would have been a better choice than this one. Each scarf is introduced by the author so you get the background on why it was done that way. Very good book and the first review here alerted me to buy this book. Thank you and thanks Amazon for these reviews as I buy mainly sight unseen.
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