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This modern day classic brings you 60 fabulous, vintage knitting patterns for women: From the 1920s tubular look to the feminine charms of the 1930s. The military style of the war years through to the glamour of the late 1940s. This iconic treasury is filled with stunning full-colour photography, faithfully styled, of updated versions of these gorgeous knits. Each design is unique and perfectly captures the charm of its era.
From evening wear to swimsuits, the original patterns have been re-written, updated and carefully resized for modern shapes, using contemporary yarns. The patterns are chronologically arranged, each chapter with an insightful essay on the history of knitting's Golden Age.
The designs have been carefully chosen to reflect the fashions and trends of vintage knitting pattern history from the 1930s to the 1950s, offering the knitter the best of design from each period, alongside a thoughtfully balanced selection of projects.
This truly amazing book is for all knitters, enabling them to knit a piece of the past and create an heirloom for the future.
Please note this a reprint of this title last published in 2015. Whilst corrections have been made to any known errata, no additional changes have been made to the text since the last publication.
Further Information
With the patterns chronologically arranged the book also acts as a historical insight into this golden age of knitwear design.
Both the original and a re-written, updated and multi-sized adaption of 60 patterns is included, with beautiful full colour images, authentically styled and photographed.
Chapter introductions about each vintage era complete this inspiring publication.
An e-book only version of this publication is also available to purchase separately.
All yarns featured will be available from the SCV website both as individual skeins or as kits.
About Susan
Susan was born in the North West of England and grew up close to both of her grandmothers who taught her many crafting skills and in particular, how to knit, using vintage patterns as her guide; and so her ability to translate and understand vintage knitting patterns began at an early age. Vintage styles have remained a huge part of Susan's aesthetic whilst she has also successfully translated this into wearable knits for today's knitter too.
Susan is a designer, author, publisher and yarn producer who has published a number of titles including A Stitch in Time volumes 1 and 2, The Vintage Shetland Project and Evolution. Her twin goals are to ensure the incredible knitting patterns from yesteryear are available to as wide an audience as possible and that the patterns and books she writes are a joy to knit from and a delight to own.
