Sock knitting master class: innovative techniques + patterns from top designers, paperback/ann budd

Work from the ground up with knitwear design: create your own socks Sock Knitting Master Class showcases methods for designing and knitting creative socks, featuring signature elements and techniques from 16 top designers.

Youll learn what makes good sock design, and then dive into knitting 18 spectacular, brand-new patterns featuring the widest variety of techniques.

With patterns divided into two sections by top-down and toe-up construction, Sock Knitting Master Class explores such techniques as cables, twisted stitches, lace, stranded colorwork, entrelac, shadow knitting, and intarsia worked in the round.

Plus, youll discover inventive ways to start and end socks, shape heels and toes, and knit the soles.

On a bonus enclosed DVD, Ann showcases all you need to know to knit fun, inventive socks, including a few special tips from this master sock knitter.

Sock Knitting Master Class is an all-star assembly of the most inventive, exciting designers working in socks including Cookie A, Kathryn Alexander, Nancy Bush, Cat Bordhi, Priscilla Gibson-Roberts, Anne Hanson, Melissa Morgan-Oakes, Meg Swanson, Anna Zilboorg , and many more.

And youll also learn how each yarn contributes to the overall design from Clara Parkes .

About the Author: Ann Budd is the best-selling author of The Knitters Handy Book of Patterns and The Knitters Handy Book of Sweater Patterns .

She is also the author of Getting Started Knitting Socks , Interweave Presents Knitted Gifts , Knitting Green , and Simple Style , and coauthor of Bag Style , Color Style , Lace Style , and Wrap Style .

She is a book editor and the former senior editor of Interweave Knits magazine.

She lives in Boulder, Colorado.