Wild Knitting

Introducing knitting wilder than your wildest dreams! Enter the glittering world of the bat hat, the floppy poppy, flaphappy sweaters, the armadillo wrap and a whole host of amazing things to make! Out go lengthy patterns with indecipherable instructions, conservative shapes, safe styles, complicated techniques and the conventional uses that go with them. In come simple patterns for swift results, sensible shortcuts to save time and effort and sensational new ways to transcend fashion and put minimum skill to maximum effect. Proving that there is no limit to what you can use for knitting and what you can make, here are over 50 patterns, created by up-and-coming designers in a rapidly booming business. The styles range from slinky waterproof jackets knitted from strips of plastic and decorated with brightly colored beads to an exotic all-knitted trellis sporting knitted clematis, honey-bees and other exquisitely Grafted flowers and insects. In addition to the patterns, which give full instructions and visual explanations, there are hundreds of suggestions for knitting bobbles, pleats, tucks, welts, rosettes, tassels and many other extra bits and pieces that bring the individual touch to your own work.