by Judith Durant
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In 2006, Judith Durant delighted knitters everywhere with her collection One-Skein Wonders: 101 Yarn Shop Favorites. At last, knitters had a rich array of fun, festive patterns for all those yarn "orphans"— single skeins purchased on impulse or left over from long-finished projects.
With knitters clamoring for even more of these imaginative patterns, Durant has tapped into a wide circle of knitwear designers across the country to compile a totally fresh collection of enchanting projects. Once again, the excitement of small-scale possibility will attract knitters of all skill levels. Like its predecessor, 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders offers patterns for small projects that can be completed with a single skein of yarn.
These designer projects range from the adorable to the elegant. The book includes plenty of patterns for those never-can-have-enough items: hats, scarves, bags, and shawls. It also highlights the unexpected: a useful knitted notebook cover, a fun-to-wear mitered square belt with beads, and an elegant ring bearer pillow. There's something for everyone here — from the novice knitter to the experienced yarn artisan.
With patterns arranged by yarn weight, knitters will easily find broad ranges of possibilities for their particular single skeins. A full-color gallery features detailed photographs of all 101 projects, allowing knitters to browse through all the patterns quickly to find the perfect match for each skein.
The patterns in 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders are practical and fun. They're ideal weekend projects, perfect to give as gifts or wear and enjoy. Because they're small enough to fit in a tote bag, they're great to take on the run. Best of all, they offer simple solutions for that stash of single skeins every knitter has tucked away.
Whether the yarn was picked up on impulse — because it was on sale, or just too beautiful to resist — or left over from a project completed long ago, every skein of yarn cries out to be used. 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders offers the ultimate solution for converting those lonely skeins into knitted wonders.
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Average Customer Review:
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Great book!, 2008-11-22
This is a great book to have in your knitting library. I have so many one of a kind skeins and this is a great way to use them.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 One-Skein Wonders, 2008-11-11
Awesome little book. I've been wanting to learn how to do hats & there's a perfect pattern in there. There's also some Christmas ornament patterns that I think I can sure use up the left overs of some socks I've made.
Sure wish they had made it spiral bound instead.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 small yarn, big skeins, 2008-10-23
I am currently in a knitalong that is using this book and was frankly mostly disappointed with the projects that are included. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of okay projects that would be good for beginners, with some more advanced socks and lacework shawl projects. The issue is that most of the projects are knit with sock yarns or something equally small and often uses huge skeins. So far, when substituting other yarns, none of my projects have been single-skein. There are barely 12 projects in this book that appealed to me and one of those projects, the cross-stitch scarf, took me forever to figure out because the directions are very unclear. I did not like the variety of projects in this book and would not have purchased it if it were not part of a class but I feel that it would be an all right book for a advanced beginner looking for some easier projects that can be completed, for the most part, in a couple of nights and somewhat economically.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Worth having, 2008-10-20
This is the second book in the "One Skein Wonders" group, and it is a useful addition to a knit and crochet library. There are, as promised, 101 designs to choose from, and I bought both books hoping to find creative short duration projects that would make use of any number of orphan skeins left over from completed projects or skeins that I purchased on sale.
Of course the term "skein" is rather meaningless, since the lengths included in one skein vary not only with the weight of the yarn but also with the way a company chooses to package it. Fortunately both One Skein Wonder books list the yardage required. Still, it is a bit disheartening to find a project pictured that you know would be great in one of the yarns from your stash, only to discover that even though it is the correct weight, your skein contains only 93 yards and the project calls for a skein of 256 yards.
All of the projects included in the "Designer" version are pictured in color at the beginning of the book (grouped by yarn weights), with the page number and pattern name superimposed on the picture. This is a nice organizational improvement over the first book, which lists pattern names and page numbers in the center of a group of photos identified by letters of the alphabet. Missing from the second book is the small photo next to the actual pattern. Instead, the "Designer" book is littered with various sizes of the same distracting filler graphic. Each pattern does include a page reference to a picture of the project. A glossary at the end also includes some clear illustrations. Several of the lace weight patterns include charts, but the vast majority of the pattern instructions are written out. This is a handy, useful book that is definitely worth buying.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
101 Designer One-Skein wonders, 2008-10-13
So many nice and inspirational things
to do with just One Skein.
The difficulty is to chose what You want to
start with.
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