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Runway Knits: 30 Fashion-Forward Designs
For more than two decades, New York City fashion maven Berta Karapetyan has been creating gorgeous high-end knit-wear, designing awe-inspiring sweaters, and working as a technical knitwear developer for the likes or more than two decades, New York City fashion maven Berta Karapetyan has been creating gorgeous high-end knit-wear, designing awe-inspiring sweaters, and workin...more
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published
April 17th 2007
by Potter Craft
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I love a lot of the patterns in this book, and am currently knitting my first project from here—the Diamond Top.
I would hate knitting the top had I not done two things. First, I used Excel to create a chart of the stitch pattern, including the selvage stitch, the pattern repeat (surrounded by a thick border to mark it as the repeat), and what to do with the last ten stitches of every row. Second, I am knitting the body in the round. This way, I can ensure I knit the same number of ro...more
I would hate knitting the top had I not done two things. First, I used Excel to create a chart of the stitch pattern, including the selvage stitch, the pattern repeat (surrounded by a thick border to mark it as the repeat), and what to do with the last ten stitches of every row. Second, I am knitting the body in the round. This way, I can ensure I knit the same number of ro...more
In the category of "nice patterns I could never be bothered to knit". Everything that can be knit in nine billion seperate pieces is, and I hate sewing up (I've never been able to fathom why I like to knit and like to sew but don't like to sew knitting, but that's how it is). Most of the patterns are at least six pages long, which is another no-no for me--I like some periods of boredom in my knitting, and most of them also look a lot too much like storebought garments. Now, I don't wan...more
Some of the patterns are spectacular, some don't work out at all or have errors.
Sizes run small at gauge. Be wary but you might come up with something beautiful!
Sizes run small at gauge. Be wary but you might come up with something beautiful!
Some really beautiful patterns, including a scarf I gave to a friend for Christmas. Definitely worth what I paid for it out of the remainder bin! ;) Also decidedly expensive patterns if one chose to use the sort of yarn it asks for.
An interesting collection of knits. All use Karabella yarns however substitution doesn't seem to be a problem.
One thing I don't like is that the patterns are written without repeating the identical pattern rows meaning that line 1 can be for rows 1, 5,9 etc, line 2 covers rows 2,4,6,8,10,12 and line 3 covers rows 3,7,11. This can make reading the pattern a bit confusing.
Currently working on the Ingenue hat, I plan on making a few more items from this book.
One thing I don't like is that the patterns are written without repeating the identical pattern rows meaning that line 1 can be for rows 1, 5,9 etc, line 2 covers rows 2,4,6,8,10,12 and line 3 covers rows 3,7,11. This can make reading the pattern a bit confusing.
Currently working on the Ingenue hat, I plan on making a few more items from this book.
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Sometimes knit designs can be a little bit cheesy or look like the kind of things you would wear with mom jeans...these are all cute, and most of the patterns are things I would actually wear!
Beautiful patterns. All made with Karabella yarn, because the author is the founder of Karabella.
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