Celebrity Scarves

by Abra Edelman, David Jakle (Photographer), Jack Deutsch (Photographer)

This is more than just a bestselling knitting book. In addition to the elegant, simple-to-make scarves, it features beautiful photo spreads of more than 25 celebrities--including Daryl Hannah, Julianna Margulies, Rosie Perez, Eartha Kitt, and Lauren Ambrose--a unique focus on fashion, and a foreword written by top designer Isaac Mizrahi.
An IPPY Award winner.

"A handsome book that gives an age-old craft twenty-first-century glamour. Enjoy looking at the beautiful photos and even reading celebrity musings on the zen of knitting."-- Booklist

What do Laura Leighton, Rosario Dawson, Bridget Moynahan, Portia de Rossi, and Vanna White have in common? They love to knit. And one of the easiest, quickest items for them to work on while they're waiting for their close-ups is a scarf. Here are their favorites, along with their thoughts on their favorite pastime. Exquisite, evocative, full-color photographs showcase the celebrities wearing their handiwork, and make this lavish volume a sumptuous visual feast, as well as a stunning project collection. Complete instructions, along with information on knitting basics, enable even beginners to re-create the high-fashion scarves.

Genres: Knitting, Nonfiction, Crafts

120 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2003

Reviews

[J · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you're looking for a book with interesting scarf patterns, keep looking. If you're a beginning knitter with no textile experience, this might be more helpful for you - most of the scarves are in garter stitch using a variety of different yarns.

[Mckinley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing for me.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the layout of this book, it was clean-looking and refreshing, allowing the scarves to be the main focal point of the page. Since these are designed by celebrities and not knitting designers, these scarves are not extraordinarily hard or impressive. But I did like quite a few of them and wouldn't mind making my own, tailored after their designs. A couple had some neat little tricks that I stored away in my mind for future use. I loved the yarns they picked, they were so colorful and soft-looking, I could almost feel them through the page. Mostly I would use this book for inspiration, if you are looking for some complex scarf designs I'd tell you to look elsewhere. But if you are just looking for some beautiful scarves to get your knitting brain turning then I'd say feel free to browse through this book and maybe you'll be inspired to make your own knitting creation.

*Taken from my book reviews blog: http://reviewsatmse.blogspot.com/2008...

[Evelyn Bryant · Rating 3 out of 5]

Light fluffy book with lots of scarves to to experiment with. Good for a beginner novice like myself who wants practice in being really comfortable with basic stitch patterns and different yarns and their textures.

[Y · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of the patterns are fun, but there isn't as much variety as I had initially thought. So many of these scarves are simply made in garter stitch. I think it was more to showcase the cause (the proceeds from the book were donated to a cancer-fighting institution...I think).

[Dee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love the patterns in this, it utilizes nice textures & simple patterns to create dramtic scarves. Nice stories about the celebs who knit!

[Rat de bibliothèque · Rating 3 out of 5]

Could be meatier but really not bad
I got a few good ideas from it

[Michelle Beese · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great patterns!

[Heywu · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was interesting to see the celebrity scarves and their pattern and yarn choices. In the end, I did not think I would knit any of the scarves.