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The Joy of Color: Fair Isle Knitting Your Way
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About The Joy Of Color: Fair Isle Knitting Your Way
Product Description Have you always wanted to knit your very own Fair Isle garment, but been unsure how to start? This type of color knitting seems very complex, but The Joy of Color: Fair Isle Knitting Your Way will guide you, step by step, through every part of designing and knitting whatever you dream of: bold or quiet, traditional or modern, bright or pastel. The author has taught workshops on Fair Isle design to hundreds of knitters. The Joy of Color is her workshop in book form, offering a proven method for starting and finishing a Fair Isle garment. The book is divided into six chapters: 1. Getting Started 2. Color 3. Motifs 4. Garments 5. Techniques 6. Getting It Done Each chapter includes case studies of the author's garments, action steps, suggested resources, and inspirational quotes. Also included in the book are stories by 13 students about the development of their garments, sharing their successes and disappointments. This is not a pattern collection, but there are templates for small projects (cap, tam, fingerless mitts, scarf), useful for testing designs. A comprehensive index is included. Review The latest book to come from one of our Visionaries is Janine Bajus's THE JOY OF COLOR: FAIR ISLE KNITTING YOUR WAY. Seeing, holding, or wearing one of Janine's sweaters feels like being transported into a timeless and profound story. During our Visionary Retreats we all melted into a happy trance each time Janine brought out a new sweater...I still recall the impact a reddish one made on me and how all I wanted to do was to circle Janine and feel its radiance. She is truly a sweater whisperer, a consummate teacher, and a careful, generous author who will win your trust, engage your intelligence, and help you turn your own sweater's whispering into reality. --Cat Bordhi, knitting teacher & designer Not only is Bajus's title an eye-popping celebration of color; it's also a meticulous one-stop workshop in designing your own custom Fair Isle garment. --Vogue Knitting Magazine, Holiday 2017 [S]elf-publishing's lack of gatekeepers, focus groups, and marketing departments means that from time to time a passionate author with a singular vision succeeds in committing her ideas to the page without interference, and that's cause for celebration. This month, 'm celebrating the arrival of The Joy of Color: Fair Isle Knitting Your Way by Janine Bajus. Bajus could probably have thrown in her lot with a big publisher. She has the bona fides. Her fans (to whom she is known as the Feral Knitter, thanks to her website) are many and vocal, her voice is unique, and her teaching is famously good; just try getting a spot in one of her multi-day workshops. Those workshops are at the heart of The Joy of Color. It sets out with warmth, clarity, and humor Bajus's method for designing the style of color work made famous by the Shetland knitters of Fair Isle, which gave the technique its name. Fair Isle knitting has a reputation for complexity that can make even experienced knitters quake in their socks.... For those who dare the book is dedicated to every knitter who has said, I wish I could do that. Bajus offers a guide to the path she blazed, often painfully, for herself. She admits in the introduction that she was neither a knitting nor a color prodigy, and throughout the book is refreshingly willing to show projects (including her first, a vest) that didn t quite come out as she d planned, or that went off the rails more than once on the way to completion. As you'd expect, the structure of the book follows the logical evolution of a project. How to pick colors, how to test colors. How to pick or design motifs, how to test motifs. How to plan the garment, how to knit the garment, how to finish the garment. The broad and the fine details are here, from shaping and buttonhole spacing to the dreaded steeks, or cut openings. (Note that there are no patterns, as such only two nicely designed exercises for planning your own tam
