Learn how to design your garments with little, or no seaming. This is part 1 of a 3 part series, designed to help you alter patterns with confidence, for a better finish, with less ends to weave in by Jennie Pakula

Other articles include: Take you for a Spin (a look at the renewed interest in spinning and handmade items); Sarah Durrant interviews Ruth Marshall (a sculptor that knits pelts in the likeness of endangered species); More Surface Work Techniques to help you embellish with Relish by Jenny Dowde; Turn your disasters into wearable art by Rita Power; What to knit with Handspun (including how to figure out the gauge, how to judge if your yarn is loosely or tightly spun and suggestions on how far your yarn can take you) by Amelia Garripoli; plus more.

Patterns Include:

Miss Rachel’s Cable Cap by Jennie Pakula
The Thick & Thin of Christmas Stockings (3 festive variations) by Liz Haywood
Sweet Leaves Camisole by Patrizia Steadman
Crochet Pi Shawl (made easy for the mathematically challenged) by Sarah Golder
Pandora’s Box by KT Vaughan
Sally (gorgeous girls dress) by Sarah Golder
Hope (the perfect summer cardie) by Jennie Pakula
She Wears Seashells (lacey socks) by Melissa Deutsch Scott
Triangular felted bowl by Jenny King
All Wrapped Up by Michelle Moriarty
Winning entry from the Royal Melbourne Show by Angela McGregor

Magazine published in December 2008

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