Knit to Flatter: The Only Instructions You'll Ever Need to Knit Sweaters that make You Look Good and Feel Great!
Knit to Flatter: The Only Instructions You'll Ever Need to Knit Sweaters that make You Look Good and Feel Great!
Kindle Edition
by
Amy Herzog
Price
$13.19
Publisher
STC Craft
Publication Date
April 15, 2014
Description
About the Author Amy Herzog is the creator of the Fit to Flatter online series (amyherzogdesigns.com), and teaches courses in yarn shops across the country. Her pattern designs have been published online at Twist Collective, in Knitscene magazine, and in the book Knitting It Old School . She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
Features & Highlights
- Learn how to knit a sweater that compliments your body type with this guide and pattern collection, from the author of
- Knit Wear Love
- .
- Knit to Flatter
- is about celebrating the body you have been given and creating sweaters that make you look and feel great. Part instruction manual and part pattern collection,
- Knit to Flatter
- teaches you how to assess your shape?top-heavy, bottom-heavy, or proportional? and then knit accordingly. With a great sense of fun and acceptance, Amy Herzog presents silhouettes and styles that work with each body shape, along with four ideal sweater patterns per category. She then provides patterns for ten more sweaters with guidelines for customizing, so they can be tailored to flatter. Each pattern is written in up to 10 sizes, and the garments are photographed on models with genuine curves. No smoke and mirrors here. Just real beauty!
- Praise for
- Knit to Flatter
- “You pick a pattern and buy some yarn. One hundred and fifty dollars and forty hours later, you try on your freshly knitted sweater and . . . oh no. You vow to take up scrapbooking. Which is why we need
- Knit to Flatter
- . Kudos to the author and the production team for including models of diverse colors, shapes and sizes, creating a look book to which we can all relate.” ?
- Vogue Knitting
- “A mine of resources.” ?
- Knit Edge
- magazine
- “I feel like this book is one that is so needed right now. . . . Getting more guidance on what styles would be more suitable seems like the smartest thing to do before investing a good chunk of change in a sweater’s worth of yarn.” ?
- Sweet Georgia Yarns
