Today, I purchased my very first pattern book to help me with knitting projects. It is very exciting and the book came highly recommended. The book, Custom Knits: Unleash Your Inner Designer with Top-Down and Improvisational Techniques by Wendy Bernard, is available from Amazon.com for $18.15 (eligible for free Super Saver Shipping). I bought my copy at a local shop, Vibes & Scribes.
I also decided to undertake one of the sweaters in the book as soon as possible since my ‘typewriter scarf’ is coming along nicely. The book seems to really grasp modern styles that are lasting as well as ways to enable the knitter to customize the patterns to be their very own. Though the sweater I plan to make is suggested to be made in wool, I plan to make it in cotton, bamboo, or acrylic so I can wear it without layering (wool makes me feel itchy).
