Saturday, April 3, 2010

Review: 60 Quick Knits

60 Quick Knits: 20 Scarves * 20 Hats * 20 Mittens in Cascade 220
By Tanis Grey, Sixth &Spings Books
Genre: Knitting

Rating:

5

Cascade 220 is an inexpensive good quality wool in hundreds of colors. However, any yarn of the same weight (or even a different weight if you want to get creative and do something funky) can be substituted if needed.

60 Quick Knits is a fantastic book! The patterns are beautiful and inspiring, each one is unique and holds potential for a million variations of decor, color, stitch patterning etc. There are patterns for kids, like bunny mittens, a lion scarf, a cupcake hat, and more sophisticated patterns like textured tam, hugs and kisses mittens, and even some patterns for the guys like a pocket scarf and tweed mittens.

Here is a preview of some of the patterns photographs I mentioned.

60 knits preview

Each pattern tells the level of experience needed to complete it, has one or two high quality good photographs, very good clear instructions, and graphs with keys. In the front of the book is a list of abbreviations, and a conversion table from US needle sizes to Metric needle sizes.

The book doesn’t attempting to teach someone to knit, so  you’ll need a good knitting teaching book, or a teacher, or some foreknowledge before you can use it. I find this a good thing, since the book is focusing on patterns rather than instruction.

When I got this one in the mail, I swear I drooled. My mom and I flipped through the pages oooh-ing and aahhh-ing. I’m going to have trouble picking which one to make first!

Recommendation: Knitters at any level

60 Quick Knits is released by Sixth&Springs books on April 6th. Click here to preorder from Amazon.

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