“Take your yarn for a walk,” says author Jenny Dowde, who teaches the freeform “scrumbling” technique. With scrumbling, needleworkers can work unbound by patterns and yet still successfully knit or crochet a project. With just a range of simple stitches and only a few basic techniques, anyone can create lovely and useful household objects and eye-catching wearable art. Full-color photographs illustrate Dowde’s methods in action, from completing both basic and advanced stitches to working with wires and beads, along with a host of special techniques, including constructing buttons, unusual closures, and special accents from polymer clay.

Freeform Knitting and Crochet (Milner Craft Series)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Dowde, Jenny

Crafts & Hobbies

Sally Milner

This is not your grandmother’s knitting and crochet! For those ready to break away from the pattern books and create wearable pieces of fiber art, freeform is an exciting discovery. It’s a technique that abandons strict garment design and builds up simple shapes out of gorgeous textured yarnswith the knitter sometimes making it up as she goes along. Start with the step-by-step clinics on how to create fragments and motifs like chevrons, flowers, and spirals. Then take inspiration from the color photographs and combine luscious yarns in intricate patchworks. The result? Something amazingly unique. There’s guidance on creating fabulously fashionable capes, stylish shoulder bags, intriguing scarves and hats, avant-garde jewelry, and even handy cell phone holders. Set your creativity free!

Freeformations: Design and Projects in Knitting and Crochet (Milner Craft Series)

Brighten up your home by knitting and crocheting with this inspirational guide to surface decoration! Using the main techniques of altering, collaging, and interrupting, you’ll see how each of these skills can be applied to bags, hats, scarves, cushions, shawls, jackets, wraps, and tops. Although each example has been exquisitely embellished, personal creativity is emphasized throughout: You have the freedom to choose your own decorative technique or to combine several for a unique style. Whether working with fancy yarns, shop-bought braids and trims, beads, buttons, lace inserts, or found objects, you’ll discover countless ways to create interesting and fabulous new surfaces for soft decorations all through the house.

Surface Works (Milner Craft Series)

Sally Milner Publishing

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Books by Dowde, Jenny

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Freeform Knitting and Crochet (Milner Craft Series)

Freeformations: Design and Projects in Knitting and Crochet (Milner Craft Series)

Surface Works (Milner Craft Series)