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Modular Knits: New Techniques for Today's Knitters
: I tried knitting a modular piece before I purchased this book. For an intermediate knitting looking to try something different, modular is interesting and challenging.
This book is excellent for learning modular technique. It is divided into sections of technique and the author provides an explanation of the technique, an exercise to try it out and then patterns using the technique.
Pattern directions are written clearly and as long as you are comfortable with the short rows that modular knitting requires, these patterns are interesting, varied and accurate.
Great book to round out a knitter's collection!
Modular Knits by Iris Schreier is a must have book for anyone who wants the look of complicated knitting with the ease of garter stitch. Her short row technique of creating shapes that are already joined is truly amazing. It is packed to the brim with innovative knitting ideas and great patterns. This book is a keeper.
I have knit over 30 years and had to let go of some of my know it all ideas and habits. When I just followed directions the results were stunning.
Even though I knit so many years I never finished a scarf. Frankly they bored me to tears. My first MD project was the Multi-Directional Triangle Scarf. (Free pattern when I joined her Yahoo group and introduced myself) I not only didn't get bored, when the first one was finished I cast on for the second one the next day. It has changed how I view knitting forever.
Yes there are mistakes in the book, like most knitting books. But don't let that stop you from getting this gem. Well worth the the price of the book and the minute or two printing the errata page.
With the (over)abundance of knitting books available at present, one must be very discriminating unless the book budget is unending. So many of the new offerings are just rehashes of the same-old same-old sweaters/coats/cardigans/etc, made in the same-old same-old way. This book introduces a truly new technique for making modular-style knits, which is one of the best ways of using variegated, hand-painted or other multi-colored yarns. And this form of modular knitting is portable, as it utilizes a unique short-row technique that eliminates the need for carrying innumerable balls of different colored yarns. I love all forms of modular knitting, but this one has the extra added benefit of me being able to carry it with me and, once the pattern is mastered, becoming "mindless" knitting. Added kudoes to Iris Schreier for making herself available via a Yahoo!group devoted to this knitting technique. She gives her advice selflessly. Highly recommended on all counts.
Modular Knitting by Iris Schrier is one of the newest concepts to hit the knitting market in a very long time. Her novel approach to design and execution has lit a fire under new and oldtimers in the knitting world. Take a look at this book, try out some of the designs and be on the way to knitting ecstasy. Flaunt those fashions that you create.
The most well-thumbed, coffee stained, velcroed-to-me knitting book I own. Learning Iris Schreier's modular short-row multidirectional knitting has given me just the shot of enthusiasm and motivation I needed to try something totally new and challenging. The scarves I have made from this book are among the best things I've ever done, and gave me the confidence to dive in to patterns that looked, at first glance, too complicated for a novice knitter.
I am enjoying this book immensely, and learning this versitile, exciting new technique has, in one short month, made me a much better all-around knitter. Certainly my enthusiasm has remained high, and the more projects I make from this gem of a book, the more I wish I could just sit and knit all day. It's like potato chips--hard to eat just one. But without the fat, salt and carbs, this is an addiction I don't ever want to give up.
I've also found that the Schreier's Art Yarns work superbly for this technique, and that each pattern is so satifsying, I long to make it over and over in different colorways. I have a different scarf on several sets of needles, ready to pick up and knit in every room of the house.
I've had more fun learning to do this type of modular knitting, and find it so neat to change yarns without having to break the yarn and put on a new color. Since I picked up this book a month ago, and also joined the Multidirectional yahoogroups list for support and camraderie, I haven't wanted to knit anything that wasn't using this technique. It never gets boring, and always looks different.
I give this book two very big thumbs up, and hope there will be a second multidirectional knitting book by Schreier with even more of these delightfully challenging patterns. Color me big time addicted. I love the results I'm getting from the patterns in this book!
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