Meg Swansen's Knitting: 30 Designs for Hand Knitting

by Meg Swansen

Book Overview

American knitting guru Meg Swansen shares tips, tricks, techniques, and secrets she has learned and discovered during her long knitting and designing career. The introduction gives the reader a candid... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883010586
• ISBN13: 9781883010584
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Interweave Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.3" x 12.2"

Customer Reviews

Terrific wisdom and advice; gorgeous sweaters too!

This is a great book for the library of any intermediate or advanced knitter. Meg has designed clever and stunning sweaters. The Turkish pair are all but mesmorizing. Still, I may never knit any of the sweaters. They're beautiful but I've seen them in person and they are generally too heavy for my climate. All the same, they're photographed beautifully and are simply wonderful to drool over even if you live in warmer parts of the world.Still, the quality that makes this book a keeper is the wonderful tricks and techniques section in the front of the book. Tired of bloops of underlying color when attaching i-cord; Meg offers a simple and totally effective solution. There are dozens of these tips which can transform your knitting from amateur to finished.

I LOVE this book!

Meg Swansen continues in her mother's revered footsteps with her book, MEG SWANSEN'S KNITTING, then "Knits On". The patterns are timeless, the colors are gorgeous - classic with a lovely update. I wish I were a friend of Meg Swansen, I'd love to sit with Meg and a pot of tea for the afternoon of knitting. I find her style of writing very easy to understand, very helpful on many levels. This is the type of book I keep by my bedside to dream over. The pictures are a treat in themselves. I'll be busy knitting for a long time with this lovely book.

Concept, Clarity, Charm, and Color - the 4 Cs of Knitting

I'm biased about this book because I know Meg Swansen well, and am grateful to her for teaching me a great many things about knitting. That aside, I still must sing the praises of this amazing book.There is no other work I know of that encompasses the techniques of the crocheted steek (a Mary Hounsell invention), jogless color changes in 2-color knitting (which Meg invented), the Purl-When-you-Can border (which Meg also invented), and knitting a tube (sleeve or sock) with 2 circular needles instead of double-pointed needles (a Joyce Williams invention). These are innovative techniques that have never been pulled into one place before, and if you're a "thinking knitter", you really should read this book! Meg is a collector of new techniques and variations, and in this book she shares freely the cream of the crop.Meg's writing style is open and compelling, and she gives you glimpses into her life as Elizabeth Zimmermann's daughter and as a thinking knitter on her own.You will love this book.

A treasure!

Just received this book for my birthday. I am so happy to have it. The photos are so wonderful--clear and detailed. I love details! What a wonderful service she performs for us (Eliz. Zimmermann Blind Followers). Like her mom, she gives the rough idea and then thoughfully for us 'turtles' lagging behind, she spells out the details so we can't miss creating our own treasure. I like the personal tidbits, parts of her life that haven't been reported by her mother with charming photos relating to her part of the knitting milleau. I like reading how she is inspired to create an item. Her devotion to the art of knitting is clear. She makes efforts to clear up confusion over the term 'fair isle.'I can pick up this book and get lost for a long time. I love and respect Elizabeth Zimmermann for her knitting architecture--I haven't always been so excited about her actual designs. Now, Meg has the design sense and all of her mom's 'architectural' skills to boot. Yes, what a treasure we have in this woman and this book! Thank you , Meg!

Awesome Patterns, Colors--an Adventure in Knitting!!

I just received this book yesterday and spent all last evening poring over the beautiful photographs and knitting patterns. Ever since I picked up Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Workshop, I've been an avowed Knitter-in-the-Round, and this book of Meg's has some excellent designs. I can't wait to finish the gansey I'm working on now so I can start work on the Weeping Sun pullover or the Fairisle Cardigan. Looks like my knitting basket will be stuffed again with 3 or 4 concurrent projects! If you knit, get this book. If you don't knit--get it anyway and learn how!! I'd also recommend any of her mother Elizabeth Zimmerman's books (Especially Knitting Around) to get you started. If I can teach myself to knit(with help from books) anyone can!