Vintage Knits, 30 Knitting Designs from Rowan, softback, published by Search Press. ISBN 978-1-84448-558-1, price 14.99 from www.searchpress.com
Whilst this is an appealing book if you do not have the original first published by Rowan in 2004. Classic styles from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s are always in demand. However, although Kaffe Fassett gets top billing on the front cover, there is only one Fassett design. The majority of the 30 sweaters are patterns from Rowan’s studio designers – Kim Hargreaves and Louisa Harding, whom I always found adequate but very predictable. If you like enough of the sweaters, you’ll find this a very reasonable book, one that is nicely produced. One thing you can always say about Rowan is that the yarns, though rather pricey these days are easily obtainable.