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| In XRX Books' latest title, you will find 40 projects to knit as 23 designers share special patterns, tips, and techniques for these colorful yarns. |
Handpaint Country...
 In Handpaint Country, you'll meet hand-dyers who live the dream. A glance at our map shows them sprinkled across North America. Our journey starts in the Southwest, but each dyer has her own point of departure: a market in Bolivia, a New Mexico cookie factory, a PTA meeting, struggling with the bottom line. As children, most wanted the biggest box of crayons. Now, each has turned her love of color and yarn into a business and a way of life. Handpaint Country tells their stories, brings you into their studios, and surrounds you with their yarns.
Then the designers take over, showing you what to do when you choose a colorway, not just a color. Handpaint County features designs using yarns from each dyer. Twenty-three designers and more than double that number of yarns maximize your knitting choices. Whether you prefer traditional shapes and familiar stitches, or unusual stitches and innovative shapes, you'll find approaches that help you make the most of hand-dyed yarns. Color adds interest to every stitch as you knit any of 40 projects that range from a simple felted vest to a three-piece suit.
Still wondering what "handpaint" means? In the Knitter's Guide you can compare immersion-dyeing, dip-dyeing, space-dyeing, and handpainting. This at-a-glance overview highlights each process, the features of the resulting colorway, and the considerations for the knitter; no wonder this section is called "Demystifying hand-dyed yarns".
Whatever we call them-whether "handpaint" is a process or just a look-we love these yarns. They spark our creativity. May you end this journey with a few new friends, knowing old ones a bit better, confident in what to do with the yarns you love. Dream on.
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Cheryl's passion for hand-dyed yarns and interest in writing merge in the Handpaint Country profiles.
When not on the road teaching and promoting hand-dyed yarns, Cheryl lives and dyes in an area of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom.
>> Read Cheryl's Pros Profile
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