Author: Gudrun Johnston Publisher: ISBN: 9781916029576 Category : Knitting Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"...This third volume explores the very roots of the series: the made-to-order knitwear business run in the 1970s by Patricia Johnston, Gudrun's mother, which operated as The Shetland Trader. Through archival research and a network of family, friends, and fibre enthusiasts, Gudrun has unearthed some of her mother's best-loved designs and updated them for contemporary knitters. This collection contains 11 patterns for garments and accessories. Use them to create seventies-inspired dream ensembles as well as timeless heirloom pieces incorporating traditional Shetland knitting techniques and motifs..." -- back cover.
Author: W. Michael Gear Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0812567242 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 466
Book Description
It is 1850 in St. Louis and Abriel Catton receives the last will and testament of his father. He must reassemble his brothers and sisters to find the legacy his father left.
Author: Gudrun Johnston Publisher: Quince & Company ISBN: 9780985299026 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A mother daughter collection of twelve seamless designs from Gudrun Johnston (aka The Shetland Trader). This book features seven sweaters and five accessories sized from teen to adult, including a "first sweater" for new knitters.
Author: Andrew Wawn Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd ISBN: 0859916448 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 458
Book Description
Andrew Wawn draws together a wide range of source material, including novels, poems, lectures and periodicals, to give a comprehensive account of the construction and translation of the Viking age in 19th century Britain.
Author: Bristol Ivy Publisher: ISBN: 9780993486661 Category : Gloves Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Knitting Outside the Box is part creative exercises, part insight into the design process. Bristol guides the reader (and knitter) through the techniques she herself uses as a designer to explore and push the endless possibilities of knitting. For any knitter who has mused on the question 'What if?', Bristol encourages an experimental approach, with her generous spirit and enthusiasm imbued in every exercise and explanation. Each stage of the book is complemented with a knitting pattern, which serves as an example of the methods explained in the book. Fifteen garments and accessories are paired with the most gorgeous of yarns. As with every Pom Pom publication, you'll recognise the attention to detail and excellence you know and love, the sumptuous, inspiring photography, and the quality paper. Their first hardback book, this is a tome that you can expect to grace a knitter's shelf as part of the reference cannon for inspiration and technique.
Author: Kate Davies Publisher: ISBN: 9780957466630 Category : Knitting Languages : en Pages : 120
Book Description
"A hap is a Scottish dialect word for a simple shawl or wrap. Haps have a particular association with the Shetland islands... This book explores the story of the hap through five beautifully illustrated essays and thirteen stunning patterns." -- cover, page [4]
Author: Jack Isbester Publisher: ISBN: 9781849954020 Category : Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
Hard Down! Hard Down! describes the eventful life of a Shetland man in pursuit of his ambitions - to reach the top in his profession, to find a wife, to cherish a family, to do his job well and to be respected by his peers. The account is enlivened by extracts from numerous well-chosen family letters, diaries and postcards revealing the minutiae of shipboard and family life 120 years ago. These include a bachelor night out in 'Frisco, buying slippers in Dantzig and a captain who changed his underclothes at midweek because he could not remember which weekend his wife had suggested!After four years as a fisherman in the stormy waters around Shetland, John Isbester chose to spend his next forty years in large square-rigged sailing ships from Liverpool at a time when shipping casualties were all too common. Remarkable feats of survival and tragic deaths are described with clarity and detail. Happier times are also remembered with picnics in Sydney harbour with captain, family and friends transported in the ship's longboat, rowed by the eight apprentices. John Isbester's wife, and sometimes their children, sailed with him on several year-long voyages accompanied by her upright piano. Her letters provide an extra dimension, describing conditions ashore in Sydney, 'Frisco, Antwerp and La Rochelle. She also describes the birth aboard ship of her ninth child! Extracts from the diary of an observant young Scots solicitor on a voyage from Liverpool to Sydney provide many insights into the nature of life aboard a large square-rigged sailing ship on a long voyage.The author, also a professional mariner, has compiled a record of the life of his grandfather from diligent research of shipping records held in the many parts of the world to which John Isbester sailed. Technical issues are illustrated with numerous diagrams for the reader and there are new insights into the loss of the Dalgonar and the acclaimed saving of 26 of the crew.
Author: Gudrun Johnston
Author: Gudrun Johnston
Author: W. Michael Gear
Author: Gudrun Johnston
Author: Fred Carach
Author: Andrew Wawn
Author: Bristol Ivy
Author: Kate Davies
Author: Jack Isbester
Author: MARIE. WALLIN