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Felted Knits

Felted Knits
By Beverly Galeskas

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Knitters will find specific techniques and instructions for felting their knitting in this detailed step-by-step introduction, including how to felt on purpose and not by mistake, techniques for both hand and machine felting, and choosing and testing yarns. They’ll also learn whether knitting swatches is really necessary and how big to knit a piece before felting. Twenty-four detailed projects include stylish bags, totes, hats, and mittens; warm and fuzzy vests and slippers; and decorative pillows, placemats, and coasters. With a section on embellishing felting and felting on felt (needle felting), knitters will be inspired to create these beautiful projects for friends and family, from the baby’s first felt hat to the furry slippers for cold winter nights.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #42591 in Books
  • Published on: 2003-11-01
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 112 pages

Editorial Reviews

Vogue Knitting, Spring/Summer 2004
“The introduction is a manual in itself, covering the basics in such detail that beginners won’t miss a trick.”

Knitter’s Review
“[Beverly Galeskas] is simply the best resource for felting today . . . This is a beautiful – and useful – guidebook.”

Liz Allen, The Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers
"I enjoyed this book immensely... [It] is laid out with clear methods and instructions."

Customer Reviews

A good first book and reference3
When I got this book, I was looking for some in-depth information on felting, and the author covered a lot of questions that I had come up against when looking just at single patterns. There's a good variety of projects and yarns used, and the colour photos are quite lovely; it's very nice to find a book that doesn't just feature one brand of yarn. I agree with previous reviews that there's not a lot of 'new' patterns, but there's a good range of different things that are felt-tested. I don't agree that the patterns are easy to follow though - the sidebars that give the project requirements are not clearly laid out, and often two or three projects are mixed in together; as well, some of the more structured projects (slippers, tea cozy) seem to have unnecessarily complex instructions for what one would think would be a fairly simple item. Overall, I would recommend the book for its comprehensiveness, but I wouldn't put it at the top of the list...

Great Book4
I made some things out of this book and felt they were quite easy to follow.

save your money2
I own about 10 knitting books, and this one is the first one with which I am disappointed. Many of the patterns in here are quite intuitive; meaning, that one probably doesn't need a book to be able to figure out how to knit them. Books with felting patterns should highlight patterns that are difficult to create. Otherwise, what's the point of buying a book? The challenges of felting are in determining scale and ratio, and anticipating shrinkage when you felt the item. None of these patterns are particularly interesting or nice-looking.

Given its 2003 press date, I would have liked to see more fashionable items like a bucket hat, a striped felted bag with closure, and more useful household items, like a fruit bowl. Instead, the patterns include a bowler hat, felted mittens, dowdy looking slippers and several simple square bags. Its saving grace is a nice-looking felted rug, but I could have probably figured that one out as well. Isn't it just a rectangle?