Amazing Loom Knits: Cables, Colourwork, Lace and Other Stitches • 30 Scarves, Hats, Mittens, Bags and Shawls • Plus All the Basics

by Nicole F Cox

Cabled hats, lace wraps, colourwork scarves and leg warmers, textured shawls, cowls, socks, and more! The basic loom knitting techniques are easy to learn, and when you are ready for more, lace, cables, Fair Isle, and beautiful textured designs can all be accomplished on a knitting loom.

This book teaches all of the loom-knitting stitches needed in photo-illustrated steps, so it's easy to follow along and start knitting your first project right away. Once you start, you'll want to knit all 30 patterns in the book!

• ISBN13: 9780811737975
• Publish Date: 1 September 2019 (first published 1 August 2019)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Stackpole Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 152
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

30 Amazing Loom Knits is a tutorial technique project book with a nice selection of loom knit projects. I think a lot of people unfairly dismiss knitting looms as 'kids crafts' and only remember the (admittedly) hideous polyester knitted hotpads and pot holders we all made in the 1970s (in avocado and harvest gold!). Forget those. These are stylish projects with a wide variety of uses from socks and scarves and leg warmers, to bags, shawls, and hats. The projects use a wide variety of yarns (they seem to be slanted to North American readers' availabilities), but substitutions should be painless.

Due out 1st Aug 2019 from Rowman & Littlefield on their Stackpole imprint, it's 160 pages and will be available in paperback format. Author Nicole F. Cox will be familiar to many of the Ravelry crowd. The tutorials are well photographed and the accompanying text is easy to follow. Many of the patterns include 'Japanese' style design charts (do those graphic charts have a different name?) as well as written pattern row by row descriptions.

These are appealing and well made with designer details.

Five stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.