Dressed in Knits: 19 Designs for Creating a Custom Knitwear Collection - Softcover

Capshaw-Taylor, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620339463 ISBN 13: 9781620339466

Publisher: Interweave, 2015

Synopsis

Knit your own couture wardrobe!

As a knitter, you know the appeal of creating a piece that can go from home to office, from weekday to weekend--and, most importantly, that looks flattering on your figure. But that can be easier said than done! Until now.

Knitwear designer Alex Capshaw-Taylor has created a collection of 19 knitted garments and accessories featuring timeless, high-fashion designs that are refreshingly easy to wear.

In Dressed in Knits, you'll experiment with a variety of techniques including multidirectional knitting, colorwork (intarsia and stranded), cabling, and more. Unique to this guide is helpful information devoted to educating knitters on couture details that produce designer quality finished pieces. Alex will demonstrate proper seeming, picking up stitches, applying beads, turning a hem, creating pockets, steeking, adding zippers to knitwear, and more. Helpful tips on styling finished garments will also be sprinkled throughout the book, like how adding a belt to a piece can change the silhouette giving it a totally different look.

Dressed in Knits isn't just another knitting book. It's your fashion-forward guide to a whole new wardrobe.

About this title

About the Author:

Alex Capshaw-Taylor's goal as a designer and knitting instructor is to get people excited about knitting. She creates garments and accessories that are fresh, fashion forward, and figure flattering. Her hand knitwear designs have beautifully tailored silhouettes that combine color and texture with an attention to detail, fit, and construction. When Alex is not in her studio designing or in a local yarn shop teaching, you can find her globe trekking in search of inspiration.

Look for Alex's work on the pages of Interweave Knits, Knitscene, Knit.Wear, and Knit Simple.

Review:

"Alex Capshaw-Taylor understands the necessity of finishing details, and her new book, Dressed in Knits, explains all manner of finishing details right up front. Part finishing-reference book, part couture-knitting collection, Dressed in Knits features 19 knitting patterns to create a timeless knitwear wardrobe that can take you from day to night and everywhere in between." --Knitting Daily

"Like taking the time to put an outfit together from its foundation garments to the accessories, Dressed in Knits takes the time to teach fit, technique, and how fiber content could make or break the garment." --Yarn Yenta

"Capshaw-Taylot begins the book by explaining how to take your measurements and how to get the right fit." --My Central Jersey's "In Stitches" column

"Suffice to say that Alex is on my Designer Watch List... It's not easy to do that kind of shaping and maintain the well-tailored look--this is a theme to Alex's designs... As I said --> YOU NEED A GIFT, and I don't see why it shouldn't be this book..." --Dayana Knits

About this edition

• Publisher: Interweave
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1620339463
• ISBN 13: 9781620339466
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168