Archive for the ‘Rowan’ Category

Vintage Knits by various

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 [...]

Rowan Crochet Workshop

Rowan Crochet Workshop, hardback, spiral-bound, published by Rowan. ISBN 978-1-906007-34-8, price 18.99 available from www.thegmcgroup.com
This book comes spiral bound, so pages lie flat, making it easy to use hands-free as you crochet. It is beautifully illustrated and presented with clear instructions. The type is bigger than usual and accompanies step-by-step photographs to guide you through [...]

Kaffe Fassett’s Country Garden Quilts

Kaffe Fassett’s Country Garden Quilts, softback, published by Rowan. ISBN 978-1-9060-0742-3, price £17.95, available from www.thegmcgroup.com
This book brings you twenty designs from Rowan for patchwork and quilting from the hands of Kaffe himself and other designers. The designs for the book were all photographed at the late Christopher Lloyd’s garden, Dixter in Sussex. Lloyd was [...]

Knitting Goes Large by Sharon Brant

Knitting Goes Large by Sharon Brant, softback, published by Rowan, price £16.99. ISBN 978-1-906007-43-0, available from www.thegmcgroup.com
Designed for size 16+, these knits are on the easy side. All in all it is perhaps the poorest of the Rowan books I have seen (I have not seen them all). There are several reasons for this: if [...]