Great Little Gifts to Knit - Jean Moss

Title: Great Little Gifts To Knit
Author: Jean Moss
Genre: Craft
Rating: 2.5/5
# pages: 137
Date read: September, 2014

Great Little Gifts to Knit consists of 30 different patterns, ranging in size from taking just a few hours to knit, to being labelled a "vacation project".

The book expects the reader to know the basics of knitting, but explains the slightly fancier techniques in an appendix, and offers small projects to allow a newish knitter tackle the challenges of fair isle, beading, intarsia, cables and short rows on a more managable scale.

For the advanced knitter there are fewer challenges, but Jean Moss offers variations to some of the project (like the Cuddle Cocoon) that allows the knitter to knit "out of the box".

The patterns are split into four sections, "Baby", "Hers", "His" and "Home". Each section has a lovely introduction, as does each pattern, which gives the book a nice and personal feel.

Each pattern is clearly described and the charts and instructions are easy to read. For some of the patterns I could wish for more photographs, as there were parts of the patterns I couldn't make out from the photos given.

Unfortunately the patterns themselves are not as appealing or motivating as I would have hoped, with a total of 4 patterns I want to knit, and none where I find myself tempted to cast on right away.

All in all not a book I would have bought for myself if I'd picked it up in a shop, but that's due to the selection of the projects rather than how they're written, so if the patterns appeal to you, this would be a great book to get.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.