Great Big Knits: Over Twenty Designer Patterns

by Dawn French, Sylvie Soudan

The designs in this book are beautiful and can be adapted to any size. There are bright colorful sweaters, business-like sweaters for work, and fun, playful sweater jackets to wear while shopping. Beautiful photographs of designs for the large woman.

Genres: Crafts

112 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Dawn Roma French is a British actress, writer and comedian. In her career spanning three decades, she has been nominated for six BAFTA Awards and also won a Fellowship BAFTA along with her best friend Jennifer Saunders. She is best-known for starring in and writing her comedy sketch show, French and Saunders, alongside her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for playing the lead role of Geraldine Granger in the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley.

Reviews

[Lori Spier]

Thanks heavens! It's a book of knitting for those of us with boobs, where the sweaters don't look like black boxes cleverly designed to make us look like a size two. But beware - these patterns are not for the faint of heart. Not the knitting part - that's fairly straight-forward. If you can read directions, can you easily knit these sweaters.

Instead the patterns are bold and brash - sort of an "in your face" to those people who think everyone should be super-model size and that those of us who aren't, well, we should hide in a closet until we are.

[Alex Ankarr]

very amazingly fab!