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Design
& Technique Books
Sally Melville Styles
Fabric Design Book
Enchanted Knitting
Sally
Melville Styles
by
Sally Melville
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According
to the author, Sally Melville, this book began as a solution
to a problem that all knitters share.
Yarn - too little to do anything with, too much to toss. What
to do with a growing collection of yet-to-knit yarns? Sally
Melville found creative solutions to these problems. For this
book she developed knitting stitch patterns that are enhanced
by a combination of colors, textures, and weights. Sally had
a great time exploring, designing with, and working through
her yarn stash. And you can too.
From 'good ol' garter stitch' to 'knitting as warp', Sally's
innovative techniques and clear, concise instructions for
27 projects take knitters through the entire process from
choosing colors to meticulous finishing. Her hands-on, low-risk,
high-return approach lets everyone get creative.
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#BKR-0537
$28.95 hardcover, 144 pages. Published by XRX Inc.
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Fabric
Design Book by Eva Kohlmark and Karin Jerstorp
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This
is a great book for learning the basics of design. It has
wonderful illustrations and really spurs your creative juices.
The
Fabric Design book illustrates a variety of inspiring and
interesting ways to design and sketch your own patterns. The
book's technical exercises use new techniques and unconventional
materials to make designing fun and easy. It also covers a
wide range of textile arts showing you how to stencil designs
on textiles, choose patterns for rugs or fabrics, and make
color selections for quilts, embroidery and weaving.
Includes discussions of:
Covers:
Sketching Objects from Nature ,Stripes ,Squares, Borders,
Surfaces, Stylizing, Color Theory and Practice, About Color,
Optical Illusions, Geometric Folding, Geometric Construction,
Scale, Study Plan, Group Work, Hints for Carrying out Exercises,
Materials
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#BKR-0401
$21.95 softcover, 160 pages.
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Enchanted
Knitting by Catherine Cartright-Jones and Roy Jones
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Enchanted
Knitting is a book which contains over 200 graphed images
by Catherine Cartwright-Jones and Roy Jones (authors of the
Tap Dancing Lizard). Sub-sections of the book include: Animals
and Plants, Beasts, Human-Like Figures, Symbols, Borders and
various projects. The projects include various samples of
knit garments.
Cochenille
offers all the files in the book in computer format. What
a great combination! We have disks for:
Stitch Painter, DAK, Creation6, PCX and Pict (gridded), plus
Brother 940 (when available).
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BKR-0535,
$19.95 book
Disks: BKRD-0144, $29.95 for .STC, .PAT, .CUT, PCX
or PICT
BKRD-0144-Br $34.95 (Brother 940 format, not always
available)
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For
further information, see our article in Machine Knitters Source,
or contact Cochenille. Also, check out the Enchanted Knitting Authors
web site at www.tapdancinglizard.com!!
Susan
wrote an article on how to use motifs from the Enchanted Knitting
book to design and create a knit pillow top. This article is featured
in the January/February 1998 Issue of Machine Knitter's Source magazine,
where Susan is a staff writer and authors the Design Line column.
Cochenille carries copies of this publication, or feel free to contact
the publisher, Fiber Circle Publishing, email:mksource@flash.net
for info.
In
her article, Susan walks you step-by-step, through the process of
choosing motifs, planning a pillow top, and designing the pillow
on the computer. Below you can see some of the sample files Susan
used in her article to explain how she makes her design decisions.
...."having
all the motifs on disk made my life incredibly easy, as all I had
to do was load the files into Stitch Painter and begin stamping
them in place as I experimented.. what a joy!"..... says Susan.
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