All New Homespun Handknit: 25 Small Projects to Knit with Handspun Yarn

by Amy Clarke Moore

Liven up your knitting with handspun yarns

Make the most of your handspun!

All New Homespun Handknit: 25 Small Projects to Knit with Handspun Yarn features beautiful quick-to-knit projects that use just a few hundred yards of handspun. Whether you’re a handspinner or simply a handspun yarn collector, show off the unique colors and textures only found in yarn created by hand.

Transform small amounts of handspun into fantastic wearables with All New Homespun Handknit. Choose from colorful caps and bags, cozy self-striping socks, comfortable and beautiful mittens, airy ponchos, warm scarves and shawls, and adorable sweaters and hats for babies and kids.

Top knitwear designers including Kathryn Alexander, Amy King, Faina Letoutchaia, Kathleen Taylor, Sara Lamb, Nancy Bush, Judith MacKenzie McCuin share patterns, tips and tricks, and the inspiration behind their handspun designs.

Create your own one-of-a-kind garments with the help of All New Homespun Handknit. Knit original, adorable small projects with all your favorite handspun.

Genres: Knitting, Reference, Nonfiction, Crafts

144 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2009

About the author

Born in 1969 in Boulder, Colorado—the daughter of a professor of language acquisition and a watercolor artist—Amy grew up in a nurturing environment of literature and visual arts. Her work is born out of a passionate interest in fairytales, myths, and art.

Amy started beading in 1998 to complete a staff project for Beadwork magazine, and she was hooked from that moment on. She enjoys the process of stitching the beads to cloth. Each bead is like a thought, and the spiral path of her beadwork is like the passage of time, with each moment building on the next until an image emerges.

Amy was the editor of Spin-Off magazine published by Interweave Press in Loveland, Colorado for thirteen years. She is now a Montessori-trained art teacher in a public, charter Montessori middle school. She earned her B.A. from Cornell College in Iowa, majoring in Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Art. She earned her M.F.A. in Fibers from Colorado State University’s Art department. In 2002, she wrote Beaded Embellishment: Techniques and Designs for Embroidering on Cloth with Robin Atkins. Soon after, she married and changed her name from Amy C. Clarke to Amy Clarke Moore.

Reviews

[Jennifer]

A very pretty book with several really nice patterns. I knitted Sara Lamb's lace up mitten pattern, and really like it ~ it's easily adjustable to different gauges of yarn.

[Abdelnasr · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love these projects and the discussions of spinning and dying wool. It is a great little book that I reread often.

[Ligaya · Rating 2 out of 5]

I remember the original Homespun Handknit (1987) upon which this is based, it is in my personal library. So I was kinda disappointed when this update did not deliver the same excitement as the first. (But perhaps I should be generous as it has been 35 years...) I was dismayed to see a long cord in the kid's Andean Alpaca Poncho, the Lace Up Mittens seemed a bit lumpy to me, and the Coin Purse was very cute but not really functional. The Zipped Baby Hoodie was a very innovative design. I won't be making anything from this book, but it was an interesting one to flip through.

[Mckinley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Seen complicated and some are really odd looking (baby's pants for example).