Nordic Knitting Traditions: Knit 25 Scandinavian, Icelandic and Fair Isle Accessories

This knitting book by Susan Anderson-Freed, contains "25 Scandinavian, Icelandic and Fair Isle Accesories". When I purchased the book I thought it would contain more than accessories and at first was a little disappointed. However, the accessories are lovely. There are hats, mittens and gloves, socks and leg warmersThe hats are lovely and most appear to me to be in Fair Isle tradition. The mittens and gloves look Scandinavian and Norwegian. The socks and leg warmers are the strongest section of the book with the most patterns.While this is a nice book to augment one's knitting library, I wouldn't say it's an absolute necessity. It has some nice patterns but none struck me like one I absolutely must have. I liked the book and will keep it but I'm not rushing to knit any specific pattern.Comment

Be careful with this one! You may just find yourself buying $100 worth of fingerings weight yarn to knit up the patterns.

I'm not really impressed with the content of this book

Love, love the patterns in this book.

I love the patterns, and will continue to use this book! It is starting to look worn!

My daughter's MIL IS Scandinavian and knits beautiful things. I`'ve never been able to figure out how to knit this way, this book explains it beautifully! Yay!

A lovely book, full of ideas and good instructions.

.Very pleased. I am making Christmas presents and these look very stylish. Can't wait to make some of the "wearables".

Lovely patterns for hats, tams, gloves and mittens. I found the directions rather difficult to follow as it has been a long time since I knitted gloves, so the first one of the pair has problems, the second one is perfect. Perhaps I should knit three of each pattern? ;-)) Also, the general tips for knitting each type of item are at the beginning of the book instead of with the items, which means a lot of turning back to re-read the beginning. The patterns themselves are mouthwatering, I have had trouble choosing which pattern to start with. I will probably end up knitting all of them! My one gripe is that, for the mittens I am working on at the moment, the thumb pattern is on one page, the back and palm patterns are on another, which means constantly turning the page and remembering which line I am on for each part of the mitten. It would be considerably easier if all patterns were on one page. Minor gripe, though. Also, the patterns are arranged to be knitted from the crown (or tops of the fingers) to the cuff, which my brain doesn't like, so I have to turn the patterns upside down so I can knit from cuff to crown. Again, a minor problem. Otherwise, lovely!

A pretty book but wasn't really what I was expecting. The patterns are all very similar - I was hoping there would be distinctpatterns e.g. Norwegian/ Faroese/Shetland. But no. There are few basic designs and patterns, and most are made on very thin needles and fine yarns, it would have been more useful if there had been a wide range of patterns/yarns/styles. The projects do look nice and I may make a couple in the future.

I tried the 'Joanna's Hat' & matching mittens. Really challenging and Required a lot of concentration. So pleased with the result. They are the perfect answer to our cold weather and look so attractive. Loads of admiration (and requestsfor me to knit them for others!) every time I wear them. Thank you to the designers

this is a lovely book with great patterns. Each section gives an overview of how the item is constructed and then there are several patterns for each item. I am looking forward to trying these out. I really cant fault the layout and design of the book and the patterns.

For the more experienced knitter. I learned some new techniques and thoroughly enjoyed the challenges of the more complex and detailed designs. So far I have knitted a hat but I plan to make several more of both hats and kittens.