Knitting Vintage Socks: New Twists on Classic Patterns adapts sock patterns from the Weldon's Practical Needlework book series. Nancy Bush updates 23 classic patterns from their rich past and reinvents them for today's knitters by including gauges, up-to-date yarns, and twenty-first century methods and sizes. Its inviting design and graceful tone evokes a more genteel time while presenting a bevy of colorful socks not seen for nearly a hundred years. Try the Gentleman's Shooting Stockings with Fluted Pattern, the Ladies Silk Stockings with Clocks, Baby's Bootikins, or the Child's French Sock inCitron Pattern and Diaper Knitting. Readers can rely on the thorough by easy-to-follow patterns and instructions - including a helpful Techniques section - and will love the sturdy spiral binding that makes this book a breeze to bring along.
- ISBN13 9781931499651
- Publish Date 20 October 2005
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 31 December 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Interweave Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English