Knitting modular shawls, wraps, and stoles: an easy, innovative technique for creating custom designs, with 185 stitch patterns
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Noted designer Melissa Leapman has developed an innovative technique that promises hundreds of beautiful shawl design options in Knitting Modular Shawls, Wraps, and Stoles! Beginning with a simple triangular wedge, Leapman shows how multiple knit triangles can be joined together to create square, rectangular, trapezoidal, and semicircular shapes. Her easy and customizable technique offers knitters of all levels endless flexibility in design and yarn choices. Charted patterns for 185 different stitches allow readers to select their favorite embellishment for the main fabric of their shawl. Colorful photographs of 20 of Leapman's original designs illustrate the creative potential of this technique. Knitters love to make shawls, and with the easy, innovative techniques of Melissa Leapman, one of America's top knitting designers, they can create hundreds of custom shapes and looks, all from triangular wedges.