Very Easy Guide To Lace Knitting (Lynne Watterson)

This easy-to-follow course in lace knitting from Lynne Watterson will transform the complete beginner into an accomplished expert. It includes beautiful lace knitting stitch patterns, and great projects to get you started. Progress from simple eyelet lace to openwork stitching and intricate edgings as you develop the skill and confidence to create beautiful pieces of lace fabric. 

Learn the basic techniques with step-by-step tuition and a preliminary section explaining all the essentials – yarn, needles, tension, techniques and how to read knitting charts.  All of the stitch swatches are clearly photographed, and shown in both fine and thicker yarns, so you can choose the look of the finished item.

There are also 13 lovely projects to practise your newly acquired skills, including a baby blanket and slippers, an evening bag, a shrug and a jewellery purse, all designed to explore the included techniques.

Each stitch pattern is provided in both written and chart form, so you can get used to using either method when working from other commercial patterns. This book will give you the skills and the inspiration to make beautiful lace.

Lynne has also written a companion book, the Very Easy Guide to Cable Knitting

Patterns

There are 13 project patterns, including: baby blanket and slippers, hat and scarf, child’s cardigan, cushion wraps, jewellery purse, women’s sweater, scarf, wrap, evening bag, pillow cover, shrug, baby’s shawl, and guest towels. 

About Lynne Watterson

Lynne Watterson has been knitting and designing for as long as she can remember. With knitting in her blood – her grandfather was a machine knitter and her grandmother a pattern checker for a knitting publication – it came as no surprise to her family when on leaving school she did an apprenticeship with a knitting publication as a knitting sub-editor. Her apprenticeship was cut short when she was offered the position of Knitting Editor for a publication for Marshall Cavendish Partworks. Lynne is now one of the most experienced craft editors, having edited many craft magazines including Fashioncraft, Hand Knitting News, Machine Knitting News, Cross Stitch, Needlecraft Magic, Cross Stitch Magic, Knit & Stitch and Knit & Stitch Creative. Lynne lives and works in the Cotswolds, UK, where she continues to use her considerable experience to design, write and edit.