Style at Large: Knitting Designs for Real Women

by Carol R. Noble

Wear bold, beautiful colors! Find styles to flatter your figure! Feel comfortable in your clothes!
These gorgeous wearables for medium to plus-size women are designed to make you look great-and guarantee a fit to make you feel great.

Fourteen patterns are proportioned to fit and flatter women's sizes Medium to 2X

Projects include jackets, cardigans, and pullovers, plus elegant evening wear

Sleeves and necklines are styled to ensure a comfortable fit

Genres: Knitting

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2003

About the author

Carol Rasmussen Noble is a designer who has been selling custom clothing patterns since 1980. Cheryl Potter is a fiber artist who has written and designed for Vogue Knitting, Knitter's, Family Circle Easy Knitting, and Interweave Knits. Cheryl is also the owner of the yarn company Cherry Tree Hill Inc.

Hometown: Reno, Nevada, and Barton, Vermont

(Barnes and Noble)

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found pros and cons for this book. I don't want to make any of the patterns, but the manifesto at the beginning was good, some of the techniques I picked up I will use (the noble neck, a cat's paw lace pattern), and some of the reasons why these patterns would look good on larger women were good hints for looking at other patterns.

The actual designs though...Her size medium is too large for me. I really hate being forever stuck in the 'too large for regular sizing, too small for plus sizing" gap. It almost feels elitist? I'm not fat enough to belong? Then, she repeatedly emphasizes using certain yarns to make people pay attention to the yarn or sweater rather than the shape beneath. I may be larger, but I have some good body features and I often want to show them off! How about a pattern for the large woman with an hourglass figure? Feature something with a slim waist! How about the large woman with lovely breasts? How about something other than large boxes with "generous armholes" and "face framing" collars?

Lastly, her idea of a "dressy" outfit is beyond me.

[Sara · Rating 2 out of 5]

I bought this book super cheap, used, sight unseen. If I would have had the opportunity to flip through the book before looking at it, I would have passed. The majority of the patterns are... well, ugly. A couple of them (the two on the cover) are cute, but the majority are just ehh. There are some good technique tips in the beginning though, so the book isn't a total loss! I have to say though, Big Girl Knits does what this book does only it does it a whole lot better.