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by: Sabine Domnick
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.432041
EAN: 9780892726882
ISBN: 0892726881
Label: Down East Books
Manufacturer: Down East Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: December 25, 2007
Publisher: Down East Books
Sales Rank: 36059
Studio: Down East Books
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Product Description:
A translation of a book published in Germany in 2004, this book includes knitting patterns for traditional-style Guernsey, Jersey, and Filey fishermen's sweaters, as well as how to adapt the textural motifs from these sweaters to modern garments.
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Rating:  - Cables, Diamonds, and Herringbone
This is a really great instructional book for cables and such. The pictures are well done and the patterns are easy to follow. This is a great book for anyone as crazy about knitting as I am.
Rating: - GREAT!
Just paging through the book for the first time and already I am planning projects - it's fabulous! Well laid out and easy to understand. Great information and the patterns are wonderful. A classic!
Rating: - Fishermen's Sweaters
The book was received promptly and in excellent condition. Great design ideas and technical information.
Rating: - good basic introduction to gansey knitting
I own this author's earlier work in German on this subject plus several other books no longer available. She begins with a short history followed by information on gussets and shaped armholes. The information on how to begin a sweater is well illustrated. The first two sweaters are easy ones followed by 5 more very beautiful sweaters all of which have charts and schematics. The last half of the book is devoted to the various patterns also well illustrated and with charts. Finally initials are ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful gansey sweaters, highly recommended
I ordered this book several years ago from Amazon.de in the original German version and was not disappointed. It contains several very attractive(and wearable) gansey type sweater patterns for men and women, and also features many gansey stitch patterns (and combinations of patterns),enabling the knitter to design her own gansey. This is one of my favorite knitting books, along with the author's previous gansey knitting book, "Pullover fuer Wind and Wetter" (sweaters for wind and weather) which, ... Read More
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