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    Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting
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    Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting
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    Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting

    By Lea Redmond and Lauren Nassef

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    About this ebook

    “Different from any knitting book I’ve ever seen! Think of it as a journal of your life, not with pen and paper, but with knitting needles” (Lisa Congdon, author of Find Your Artistic Voice).

    Record the beauty, emotions, and experiences of everyday life—with your knitting needles! Author Lea Redmond offers thirty-two enchanting projects that will inspire you to create beautiful finished pieces full of personal meaning and memories. Stock up on shades of blue, gray, and white and knit one strip of a scarf each day for a year, using the color that matches the sky on that day. When you’re done, you’ll have a unique memento of your year better than anything you can keep in a scrapbook. Or when you’re traveling, knit postcard-size swatches at each place you visit, using the colors you see around you. When the trip is over, piece the swatches together into a throw or scarf that will remind you of your journey every time you use it. Or knit a height-chart scarf for a beloved baby, starting with her length at birth, then add inches each year until you have the perfect gift for her eighteenth birthday. These are knitting projects like no other, resulting in one-of-a-kind heirlooms that tell a story only you can tell. Redmond provides instructions for all the stitches and techniques you need, as well as required patterns.

    “In this charming book, Lea Redmond puts her big heart into creative knitting projects. She reminds us that the sky’s the limit—in knitting and in life.” —Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle

    “Not your usual book about knitting . . . [It] aspires to turn on your creativity, to awaken the designer within you.” —In Stitches
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 5, 2015
    ISBN9781612123349
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    Knit the Sky: Cultivate Your Creativity with a Playful Way of Knitting
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    Lea Redmond

    Lea Redmond is an artist, creative consultant, and author of the bestselling Letters to My . . . series. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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    • 4/5
      This is a book for people who are willing to get knitting inspiration from the world around them. The title comes from Redmond's first project idea: use white, blue, and gray yarns to knit a scarf the color of the sky, adding a row a day for a year. Or knit a cowl that mirrors the houses on your block, with a stripe the color of each house and a gray stripe to mark where you turn the corners. You can adjust another of Redmond's cowls to show what the phase of the moon is on the day you wear it.Redmond has deliberately omitted project photographs from this book—even the author picture is a drawing—but the book is fully illustrated in color by Lauren Nassef, so there's plenty to look at and you'll have a general idea of what each of Redmond's suggestions could turn into. She has included generic patterns for a hat, socks, cowls, etc. in the appendix, as well as a guide to some basic knitting and sewing techniques, but this book isn't really intended to teach you how to knit. This would be a fine book for people looking to get away from other people's patterns, but who aren't sure how to get ideas for their own creations.