Custom Knits: Unleash Your Inner Designer with Top-Down and…

This book is great. It's one of few books I love most of the patterns and if I don't absolutely love it, there are instructions on modifying them (or any other pattern for that matter) so that I do love it. There also plenty of other tips and ideas included that are fabulous. On a lesser note I also love the design of the book. I highly recommend it. ( )

An interesting book. It starts with the authors philosophy and a "how to make your own custom dress form" guide, then takes you on a journey through some patterns and then to how to adapt said patterns to suit yourself.

This is all top-down construction, which suits some people and doesn't suit some others, but it does talk about adjusting designs and working them for yourself. This is a book for someone who knows something about what they're letting themselves in for. Definitely not a beginners book, though many of the patterns are mostly stocking (or stockingette) stitch or with a little bit of fairly simple design involved. It's a book to stretch you, to make you think about your relationship with your favourite jumpers and see how you can make them yourself, in your own favourite colours and with your own detail.

Overall, I'm torn, it's a good book with interesting ideas but nothing really sings to me in it, except of course the guidelines. ( )

Excellent reference book; the author shows how to modify the patterns to suit your body type and your taste. Great patterns. No-nonsense attitude. ( )