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Summary: Great book - lots of fun and lots of variety
Review: I disagree with the previous reviewers of this book. I am a compulsive mitten knitter and I totally love this book. The colors and yarns used in the projects are traditional - in fact the mittens and gloves featured in the book were collected by the author in the Shetland Islands. The beginning of the book includes a brief history of Fair Isle kitting, along with some instruction on special techniques that are used by Shetland Island knitters. If you are the least bit interested in traditional knitting techniques, you'll be very happy with Knitting Fair Isle Mittens & Gloves. The photographs show the palm and the back of the hand for each pair, so you can easily compare them to adjacent charts. I would definitely recommend this book. It includes basic patterns for gloves and mittens for women and children, with charts in many styles and colors. And there's a bonus lace glove pattern in the back. My favorite projects are the fingerless gloves, which provide an easy way for mitten knitters to ease into glove knitting. Not to mention that fingerless gloves are incredibly popular right now, so there are a slew of ideas for gifts to knit. (The only thing missing is a pattern for men's gloves, but you can easily convert any of the women's patterns to a man's size by using a slightly heavier yarn and going up a needle size.)
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Summary: Pink Poodles jump through flaming hoops --exciting!
Review: The good points about "Knitting Fair Isle Mittens and Gloves: 1. There are patterns of all sizes, including kids' sizes.
2. The gloves have the Fair Isle motifs placed in various ways, giving you ideas for designs of your own.
3. There are fingerless gloves patterns, fun to do and they have some utility as well as being funky-stylish.
4. The introduction has some interesting reading and historical pictures. The not-so-good points about this book: 1. The colorways are not exciting--rather mundane, in my opinion.
2. The photography is not top-notch.
3. The color and printing are also second-rate. If you love doing gloves, you may enjoy the color patterns in this book. I like them--they make great gifts and are fun to knit. If you only knit gloves occasionally, a basic glove pattern would do you fine, and you can figure out how to put Fair Isle style patterns on them yourself from knitting charts. You probably can also figure out how to adjust the size and how to do a fingerless glove. It's not rocket science, after all. Recommendation: Only if you really like knitting gloves and like colorwork, or want to use the ideas as a springboard for your own creativity. And of course, it's good for those who love small projects. Not the prettiest book, but useful with those reservations.
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Summary: beautiful but beware
Review: This book is full of beautiful gloves and mittens but beware of mistakes. There are errors in materials needed-amount of yarn. Errors in number of stitches to cast on and mistakes in the knitting charts. If you are an experienced knitter you will be able to find the problems, beginners will have a problem.
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