The Knitted Fabric: Colourwork projects for you and your home - Softcover

Hardwicke, Dee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800923740 ISBN 13: 9781800923744

Publisher: Search Press, 2025

Synopsis

Knit 20 vibrant colourwork projects for you and your home, from renowned British knitwear designer and artist Dee Hardwicke.

'This superbly designed book is a unique celebration of the way that knitting can bring us together by using art and decoration to tell our stories.' – FineFettleFabrics.uk

Brimming with artistic inspiration and filled with patterns for gorgeous colourwork knitwear and joyful pieces for the home, this creative and original book is perfect for confident knitters looking for nature-inspired patterns to knit.

Step inside Dee Hardwicke’s world and discover:

• 20 nature-inspired colourwork knitting patterns – nine cushions, three wraps, three quilts, two sweaters, one vest, one hat, and one pair of gloves.
• Gorgeous and inspiring photography to make the creative process as clear as possible.
• Snippets of Dee’s sketchbooks throughout, providing a fascinating insight into her working process.
• An exclusive fold-out ‘map’ for laying out and seaming the Butterfly Patchwork Quilt.

Illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolours and painterly photography, The Knitted Fabric brings the pages of Dee’s sketchbooks to life. As Dee explains, “I find the process of knitting very similar to painting, with each stitch being a brushstroke of colour. As stitches loop together, they create a knitted fabric, a kind of narrative of art, the making process and the people and landscapes that inspire me”.

About this title

About the Author

Dee Hardwicke is an artist, designer, and knitter with a passionate belief in creating beautiful and accessible pieces that bring colour and joy to everyday life. She is the author Knit Your Story in Yarn, and works from a studio in South Wales, United Kingdom.

From the Back Cover

Knit 20 vibrant colourwork projects for you and your home, from renowned British knitting designer and artist Dee Hardwicke.

Illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolours and painterly photography, The Knitted Fabric celebrates Dee’s love of the natural world, and shares her fascinating, unique, artistic process for creating her knitwear.

As Dee explains, “I find the process of knitting very similar to painting, with each stitch being a brushstroke of colour. As stitches loop together, they create a knitted fabric, a kind of narrative of art, of the making process, and of the people and landscapes that inspire me”.

Brimming with artistic inspiration, heightened by extracts from Dee’s stunning sketchbooks, and filled with patterns for gorgeous colourwork garments and joyful pieces for the home, this creative and original book is perfect for confident knitters looking for nature-inspired patterns to knit.

Edition details

• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800923740
• ISBN 13: 9781800923744
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192