About French Girl Knits
Kristeen Griffin-Grimes, known in the knit and
crochet community for her pattern company, French Girl, utilizes
inventive combinations of texture, color, and stitch patterns in her
fashion-forward, seamless design work featured in her new book, French Girl Knits.
French Girl Knits includes:
- Classy, feminine designs fashioned in luxurious
yarns that achieve suberb figure-flattering fit with seamless
construction—the need for sewing has been eliminated with Kristeen’s
one-piece designs.
- Four thematic vignettes inspired by French daily
life, film, and history: Enfant Sauvage (Wild Child), la Boutique
Parisienne (A Vintage Dress Shop in Paris), Dans La Rue (Street Wear),
and Creatrice (Creative Woman).
- A design workshop featuring in-depth tutorials that teach seamless construction methods featured in French Girl Knits,
providing valuable technical information for both beginning and
seasoned knitters. You’ll learn how to design in a more organic way,
either from the top down, from the hem up, from the back out, and by
picking up live stitches when possible.
All of the designs featured in French Girl Knits are
body conscious and figure flattering. Many designs include
curve-friendly waist shaping, empire-waist detailing, and stitch
details that emphasize the feminine form. Inspired by historical
costume, Kristeen uses unique detailing such as lacing, openwork, lace
edgings, and bell sleeves to further highlight the woman’s silhouette.
French Girl Knits invites
you to be immersed in a world filled with imagination and creativity,
using knitting as a vehicle for self-express and encouraging
experimentation through your medium.
Paperbound, 9 x 9, 160 pages
150 photographs, 30 illustrations, 20 charts
ISBN 978-1-59668-069-2 |
