Crocheted Aran Sweaters

by Jane Snedden Peever

- Fifteen projects transform texture-filled stitch patterns into gorgeous sweaters and vests- Designs incorporate cables, bobbles, moss stitches, and more- Includes designs for beginners, plus... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564774848
• ISBN13: 9781564774842
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Martingale and Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Love, love, love this book!!

This book is the best in many ways. Spectacular designs, wonderfully written patterns, easy to follow schematics, special directions for special stitches. I love being able to make Aran style sweaters in crochet. The way the book is written it is also easy to use certain stitches and design my own sweater. Yes, you can do cables with crochet and they are beautiful!

wearable crocheted sweaters

This book and Lily Chin's upcoming book are the only crochet books I've ever found that have sweaters I would actually wear. Instructions are clear. I'm mostly a knitter who dabbles in crochet and I had no problem with these directions.

Behind the Scenes

I have a confession: I developed and edited this book for ME! Usually, in the book business, products are developed with a target reader in mind. Well, I broke the rules when I asked the designer, Jane Snedden Peever, to create the garments for Crocheted Aran Sweaters. I *love* every sweater in this book! In fact, I've already made half of them, and have yarn picked out to stitch the rest. Plus, I've used the stitch patterns, which are explained in the Pattern Work Encyclopedia, to make other sweaters for me and my husband, and an afghan for his office. Every time I wear one of the sweaters from this book, at least a handful of people admire the work and marvel that they're crocheted rather than knit. The work looks very intense, but most of the garments are actually easy to stitch. Scottish Reel, for example, has blocks worked in a variety of stitches. It looks really hard. But it isn't, because you make rectangles, working one stitch pattern after another, and then sew the pieces together. I made my Scottish Reel sweater in three days (of course, this is part of my job, so I stitched for seven hours a day). Another thing I like about the sweaters in this book is that practically any Aran-weight yarn can be used for any of the sweaters. You can walk into any yarn or craft shop and probably find a yarn that'll work. How cool is that? I hope that you enjoy this book as much as I do.

Wonderful!!

What a wonderful book! The patterns are so amazing looking and so detailed. I can't wait to get started! After reading this book, I'd definitely recommend it.

Great book for Beginners and Advanced

I love the instructions and illustrations in this book, they take you step by step to complete all of the stitches used in the book. There are Sweaters, a vest, cardigan, and a hooded sweater jacket. Patterns look very complicated but they are not. Great addition to your crochet sweater and pattern library.