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101 Designer One-Skein Wonders: A world of possibilities inspired by just one skein | 
| Author: Judith Durant
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
Buy New: $12.89
You Save: $6.06 (32%)
Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 4400
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 7.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1580176887
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.432041
EAN: 9781580176880
ASIN: 1580176887
Publication Date: October 16, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Product Description
In 2006, Judith Durant delighted knitters everywhere with her collection One-Skein Wonders: 101 Yarn Shop Favorites. At last, knitters had a rich array of fun, festive patterns for all those yarn "orphans"— single skeins purchased on impulse or left over from long-finished projects.
With knitters clamoring for even more of these imaginative patterns, Durant has tapped into a wide circle of knitwear designers across the country to compile a totally fresh collection of enchanting projects. Once again, the excitement of small-scale possibility will attract knitters of all skill levels. Like its predecessor, 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders offers patterns for small projects that can be completed with a single skein of yarn.
These designer projects range from the adorable to the elegant. The book includes plenty of patterns for those never-can-have-enough items: hats, scarves, bags, and shawls. It also highlights the unexpected: a useful knitted notebook cover, a fun-to-wear mitered square belt with beads, and an elegant ring bearer pillow. There's something for everyone here — from the novice knitter to the experienced yarn artisan.
With patterns arranged by yarn weight, knitters will easily find broad ranges of possibilities for their particular single skeins. A full-color gallery features detailed photographs of all 101 projects, allowing knitters to browse through all the patterns quickly to find the perfect match for each skein.
The patterns in 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders are practical and fun. They're ideal weekend projects, perfect to give as gifts or wear and enjoy. Because they're small enough to fit in a tote bag, they're great to take on the run. Best of all, they offer simple solutions for that stash of single skeins every knitter has tucked away.
Whether the yarn was picked up on impulse — because it was on sale, or just too beautiful to resist — or left over from a project completed long ago, every skein of yarn cries out to be used. 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders offers the ultimate solution for converting those lonely skeins into knitted wonders.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 30 more reviews...
 Good book January 7, 2009
Richard (Peoria, IL)
The product which we ordered, 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders, arrived in a timely manner. We were very satisfied with the Amazon service, and the book will certainly come in handy for knitting projects.
 Great patterns, many errors January 7, 2009
A. Newell (Alabama)
There are a lot of things I like about this book: lots of cute patterns, great pictures, and instructions are (usually) clear. I've made several of the patterns and they turned out great. There is a wide range of difficulty and styles. Great if you're running out of time for a gift, you want to use up some of your stash, or you bought some yarn you love but don't know what to do with it.
The only criticisms I have are that there are a lot of errors and some of the techniques are not explained very well. For the errors, you can go to the publisher's website and get the corrections. To save paper, I just printed out what I needed for the pattern I was working on. That was fine until I finished it and wanted to start a new one while I was traveling. I'm not an advanced enough knitter to be able to figure out many of the errors on my own.
As far as the techniques, many of them are explained well, but some of the more complicated ones (ex. short rows) are not explained very well at all. Again, you can resolve this on your own by looking up the techniques on the internet.
Overall, I recommend the book if you don't mind doing a little extra research on the internet.
I love it! January 5, 2009
lilahcakes (Sippi')
I have another 1 skien book , but not by this person, and its awful. I love this 1 skien book. It has many projects to choose from, and they are grouped by yarn weight, which I think is helpful. There is a little of everything in this book.
Pretty gifts for everyone December 27, 2008
Luisa Zambrana Gallego (Barcelona (Spain))
I found this book really useful to make beautiful gifts wiht just one skein and by de way, reduce your stash : )
Great Book With Lots Of Ideas December 12, 2008
T. CALCI (South Carolina, USA)
This book is full of ideas to make various hats, scarves, gloves, socks, baby clothes, dish rags, small purses, baby blankets, checkbook cover, nano cover, a few animals & a couple of felted projects too. The instructions are very detailed & easy to follow. This book has some awesome gift ideas.
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