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A knitting book from a successful designer and author that features jazzy hats with bright colors, vibrant patterns, and sophisticated styling. Each hat is shown in full color and is accompanied by easy-to-follow pattern charts. Nine hat styles are given, from classic berets and toques to innovative designs such as pentagons, stars, and domes. Top to learn more
Anna Zilboorg is the kind of artist and craftswoman who comes along only rarely. Her previous book,
Fancy Feet, integrated a unique color creativity with traditional fiber folk traditions of Turkey. In
45 Fine and Fanciful Hats to Knit, she presents nine basic hat shapes, from a fairly standard (but colorfully interpreted) beret to amazing geometric structures such as an onion dome and a six-pointed star (knitted in two layers). Enjoy breaking the constraints of knitting "normal" hats and set yourself free. For those who
really want to follow directions, Zilboorg's charts are unusually clear and her directions are brief and uncomplicated.
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Great Fun, Cheerful Inspiration
If you like knitting in the round or making small portable projects, this is an excellent book. I'm a beginning knitter - I have only been knitting 6 months and am completely self-taught - and I've made several hats from this book, adapting head bands from one, body patterns from another, and shapes from a third, in my own colors. While there may be nine basic shapes, the permutations are much greater than the 45 in the title.The charts are clear and helpful (I gather there are minor problems with some, but I haven't had any trouble deciphering them). Zilboorg gives clear directions for various types of beginnings and finishings. As a neophyte, I found them easy to follow.Each hat took a couple evenings and was quite enjoyable to do. The shapes and colors are uplifting and lots of fun to knit and to wear. I've been recommmending this book to people who have admired my knitting. And wearing one of these hats is a great way to brighten your day and keep you head warm at the same...
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February 21, 2001
(San Francisco Bay Area, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 18 | Rating: 4
Beautiful Hats, little instruction
I kept my copy, because the hats are prettty to look at and someday I might try one (maybe not now that I've read about the errors here on Amazon) but I can understand why someone would be frustrated enough to return this. You don't buy a cookbook without recipes. The point of having patterns/recipes is so that you can replicate something you like. It is not a crime, really, no matter what people who read the Zimmerman books might say.Not everybody likes charts. I am sorry, but it's the truth. It would not kill these authors to write things out, at least ONCE and please do not whine that it would add to the cost of the book. It doesn't have to, and hey, we have computers now, it's not like you're scribing these books on parchment with a quill pen by candlelight.There, now that that's out of my system, I would still say to buy the book (though it is somewhat overpriced considering you get such little guidance and that there really are only 9 hats with variations), but it is NOT...
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January 30, 2001
| Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 3