Review: Love this technique
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2013
Basically, I'm giving five stars to the technique itself. I'll be honest I haven't carefully read through the whole book itself. But what I have read, the instructions were easy to understand and follow and the writer engaging, she seems like the kind of person I'd like to know. The books seems well done and has good photographs to show exactly what she's explaining. The projects themselves were okay, but I don't think more than general descriptions of how to make things would even be possible with this technique, since it's true that even if she gives a specific yarn for a project, each person will crochet at their individual tension and it would be extremely frustrating to even attempt following a normal pattern while including argyle crochet. This is something best left to each person's own creativity.As for the technique, I am having fun with it and it's exciting to see the pattern emerging. I would imagine it gets better with more practice, but I think this will take somewhat longer to crochet a project than normal because of the small adjustments needed to ensure the colors line up correctly. I often had to frog partial rows to get the colors right, and I'm experienced and crochet with a very consistent hand. But I never had to take out too much so I didn't mind, just people should be prepared for plenty of small adjustments to their work. Although instructions are given for beginners who haven't crocheted before, I don't really consider this to be a good beginning technique. The stitches themselves are only beginner stitches, but I think for myself I would have gotten frustrated trying this as a beginner, having less control at that time with my gauge. I would highly recommend that an absolute beginner not jump straight into this, but first make a simple project to get more comfortable with the stitches and maintaining tension.Absolutely this is a fun way to use variegated yarns and I think it great to have this as part of a repertoire.