Creative Machine Knitting: A Voyage of Discovery into Colour, Shape and Stitches

by Alison Dupernex

Creative Machine Knitting is simply a treasure trove for machine knitters; overflowing with design ideas and stitch patterns to inspire you to explore different styles and to make wonderful new projects. Knit with an open mind and be prepared to have a go, make changes and look to improvise – push yourself out of your comfort zone. Topics covered include; how to design – from where to source inspiration, consideration of materials and adoption of sustainable practices; painting with yarn – the process of translating a pattern or colour scheme into a knitted fabric; designing with panels and borders, and adding embellishments; Fairisle – advice on colour selection and pattern placement, including a 'sketchbook' of over fifty stitch patterns to try and finally, there is an inspiring stitch pattern directory of even more examples, illustrating the endless possibilities available to the machine knitter. The book features over 100 patterns, all of which can be adapted and form the basis of new designs, jackets, cardigans and kimonos; sweaters; Fairisle designs; waistcoats; children's knitwear; accessories and homewares.

256 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 12, 2022

Reviews

[Gail G · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed the other design with machine knitting book so much by this author that I bought this one too. I would recommend this book if you can only afford to buy one of them, I think it gives more information. But both books are masterpieces of colorful art and just wonderful to look at.

The author has beautiful color schemes and artful creations from them. She uses a lot of colors and tells how she changes colors in feeder 1 and 2 in her patterns, which is amazingly generous. She likes to felt a lot of her patterns. It will take me a long time to go through all of the book because there is so much in it but it is worth the price. Compared to other machine knitting books I've bought this one is by far full of creative pattern ideas. She doesn't waste book space to tell how to use your machine but I believe most of her patterns can be made with single bed standard gauge machines with some hand knitting finishing.

I did buy the kindle and it shows the beautiful color pictures with my Mac, iPad, and iPhone, but my kindle paper white only shows black and white photos. Obviously, you will have to make your own punchcards from her pictures but the majority of pictures are easy to see.