This guide provides creative knitters with a collection of three-dimensional figures from history. From the ancient world, meet an Egyptian man and lady, a rabbi and a high priest. An Italian... This description may be from another edition of this product.
This is a lovely book and has some great ideas and beautiful clothes in it. Personally I don't like the dolls. I do however have a doll pattern by Alan Dart for a pirate that I can adapt the clothes for. As I have a few of Jans other books I should have known that the dolls would be the way they are. Don't get me wrong I do really like this book and am glad that I bought it.
Not for novices
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Jan Messent's work is, as always, visually stunning. I own several of her books but it has taken me a few years to not be too intimidated to try some of her projects. For advanced knitters, I would highly recommend any of her books, but it was this one that got me hooked.
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