Knitting Porn
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library_mamaMr. Froggie Pants was three months old before I finished the little baby mittens that I’d started before he was born, and which the book said would take just a few hours for an experience knitter. So looking at patterns for sweaters, even baby sweaters, must be regarded as being strictly in the realm of daydreams. Still, I had fun with these books.
Style Your Own Kids’ Knits by Kate Bueller The common format for knitting books is to give you the picture of a fabulous whatever it is, then tell you how to make it in several different sizes. In this fascinating book, Bueller does things exactly backwards: she provides four basic patterns for each size range from 0-3 months up to 8-10 years: crew neck and v-neck of each pullover and cardigan. In separate sections, she provides style variations – edgings, neck styles, stitch patterns, pockets and hoods and charts for a wide variety of motifs. (I was especially intrigued by the fried egg.) There are also basic patterns for two styles of hat and a backpack. Adorable children of the appropriate age are shown modeling the styles, and the captions describe what style variations were used. If you did want to knit for children, this book would be well worth your money.
Miss Bea’s Playtime
Miss Bea’s Colours
Miss Bea’s Rainy Day
Miss Bea’s Dressing Up by Louisa Harding Four slim books featuring Miss Bea, a sweet little girl who looks to be about four. Each one starts with a picture story, describing Miss Bea and her friends playing, with photographs and watercolors of beautiful sweaters. The little stories (which Mr. FP greatly enjoyed) are followed by the patterns (all for Rowan brand yarn, and sized for 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6 years). The sweaters have uniformly boxy styling and each book is intended as an introduction to a different knitting technique – basic knitting in Playtime, texture knitting in Colours, cables in Rainy Day and intarsia in Dressing Up. They were very good knitting porn. I might even try to knit Mr. FP the Magician’s Sweater, with stars around the bottom edge.
I am still looking for a pattern for “longies”, the knit wool baby pants that some of my friends have… if anyone knows where to find one, let me know. They should use bulky yarn, so I stand a chance of finishing them.
Style Your Own Kids’ Knits by Kate Bueller The common format for knitting books is to give you the picture of a fabulous whatever it is, then tell you how to make it in several different sizes. In this fascinating book, Bueller does things exactly backwards: she provides four basic patterns for each size range from 0-3 months up to 8-10 years: crew neck and v-neck of each pullover and cardigan. In separate sections, she provides style variations – edgings, neck styles, stitch patterns, pockets and hoods and charts for a wide variety of motifs. (I was especially intrigued by the fried egg.) There are also basic patterns for two styles of hat and a backpack. Adorable children of the appropriate age are shown modeling the styles, and the captions describe what style variations were used. If you did want to knit for children, this book would be well worth your money.
Miss Bea’s Playtime
Miss Bea’s Colours
Miss Bea’s Rainy Day
Miss Bea’s Dressing Up by Louisa Harding Four slim books featuring Miss Bea, a sweet little girl who looks to be about four. Each one starts with a picture story, describing Miss Bea and her friends playing, with photographs and watercolors of beautiful sweaters. The little stories (which Mr. FP greatly enjoyed) are followed by the patterns (all for Rowan brand yarn, and sized for 1-2, 3-4, and 5-6 years). The sweaters have uniformly boxy styling and each book is intended as an introduction to a different knitting technique – basic knitting in Playtime, texture knitting in Colours, cables in Rainy Day and intarsia in Dressing Up. They were very good knitting porn. I might even try to knit Mr. FP the Magician’s Sweater, with stars around the bottom edge.
I am still looking for a pattern for “longies”, the knit wool baby pants that some of my friends have… if anyone knows where to find one, let me know. They should use bulky yarn, so I stand a chance of finishing them.
