text: Gradient yarns and colourful colour-shifting patterns are everywhere in knitting today! Knowing what and how to knit with colour-shifting yarns, and how to combine colours for successful colour-fade projects, can be a challenge. Let the Editors at Interweave be your guide to the colourful world of knitting gradients with Gradient Style. Inside this comprehensive guide to putting gradients yarns to work you'll find:
  Detailed information on selecting, combining and knitting coloured yarns into unique gradient effects
  Tips to help avoid common colour-shifting mistakes such as colour pooling and uneven striping when working with gradient skeins
  20 beautiful gradient knitted patterns to explore gradient techniques in inspiring, wearable designs including both garments and accessories
  Featuring the work of such renowned knitwear designers as Kaffe Fassett, Martin Storey, Louisa Harding and Sarah Hatton, Rowan: 40 Years celebrates the magazine's legacy with gorgeous sweaters, cardigans, wraps and more.
  While the book offers a gallery of covers, never-before-seen images from the original magazines and a brief history, half of the designs have been knit again using modern colours and newly photographed with updated styling to prove Rowan's designs are as fashionable today as they were years or decades ago.
  Filled with Rowan's trademark high-quality photography and breathtaking knitwear, Rowan: 40 Yearswill be a book that every knitter loves to turn to for patterns and inspiration.
  Finishing School, the most trusted resource on finishing techniques for knitting, is now available in paperback.
  She patiently takes her student-readers through every essential finishing technique – blocking, seaming, buttonholes and bands, zippers, edgings, pockets and other embellishments – and carefully demystifies it with detailed photography, in-depth examples and helpful sidebars, tips and tutorials. As a bonus, 15 patterns for sweaters, jackets and scarves, many with variations, illustrate the newly learned techniques to further cement essential skills.
  This step-by-step guide to 25 unique embroidery designs incorporates traditional Chinese design elements, including landscape paintings, bird and flower motifs and famous poems. Projects are both beautiful and useful, and are simple enough for embroidery beginners. You will learn about:
  The different bead embroidery tools, techniques and materials
  Over a dozen embroidery stitches for single-bead, multi-bead, free stitches, layered stitches and more
  Small-scale embroidery projects, including jewellery, coasters, pouches and silk scarves
  More advanced projects, including makeup bags, lamp covers and wall art
  About the Author Han Yu is one of the world's leading experts on bead embroidery. She studied at the prestigious Ecole Lesage, part of Chanel's Metiers d'art, in Paris, and regularly produces pieces for Shanghai and Paris Fashion Weeks, state dignitaries and celebrities.
  Free sample Try the Celebration Banners project from the book.
  With Complete Feltmaking, any crafter can learn the art of creating felt with a little fleece, water and soap.
  Susan Ache returns with a dozen spectacular quilts for Christmas. And most can be displayed year-round!
  Many quilters want to decorate with Christmas quilts during the holidays – but who wants to pack them away for 11 months of the year? Softer shades of red and green suit all seasons, whether for snuggling up on the couch in December, enjoying late-night campfires in June, or relaxing on the deck in October.
  Choose among exquisite quilts with traditional roots and lighthearted quilts that capture the magic of the season. When Christmas rolls around, any of them can take center stage.
  Free sample Try the Peppermint Party project from the book.
  In the '50s and '60s, Simplicity released their popular line of Jiffy sewing patterns, which had minimal pattern pieces and simple constructions, yet were chic enough for fashion-conscious customers. This approach appeals now more than ever as stylish women are continuously looking for ways to fit their love of sewing into busy lives filled with family, work, school and countless other obligations.
  Gertie Sews Jiffy Dresses is Gretchen Hirsch's modern reinvention of this simple idea, focusing on easily mastered sewing skills, minimal pattern pieces and fabulous designs. And the best part? You will end up with a sparkling wardrobe of easy-to-wear, fun-to-style dresses that will fill busy modern lives with retro charm.
  Cécile Franconie is noted for the exquisite nature and somewhat retro bohemian charm of her embroidery and crochet work.
  Here Cécile opens her studio doors to us and presents some 20 of her latest creations for you to make; in these projects she combines quilting and embroidery with elegance and whimsy.
  From Quiltmania with text in both English and French with actual-size patterns included.
  Hats finish an outfit – they make a statement, provide panache and lift your spirits. This book explains how to make your own hats, using traditional construction methods with both specialist millinery foundation materials and a range of fabrics and trimmings.
  Alison Hart showcases 26 hats and headpieces, each with step-by-step photographs and instructions, some using ready-made elements, others that are made from scratch. Celebrating the versatility of hats, she introduces the wide range of styles and shapes that modern millinery has embraced.