Kerrie Allman
Handpainted
A guide and pattern book for using some of the most beautiful yarn on the market -- hand-painted yarns.
About Handpainted
Some of the most popular yarn available today, handpaints/hand-dyes have unique properties that can make working with them frustrating or even disappointing. After explaining the special traits of hand-dyed yarns, this book will provide 20-30 beautiful patterns that enhance the color variations and techniques for using them to their best advantage. The patterns will be written for widely-available hand-dyed yarns so that readers can get the same results, but readers will learn to identify patterns for their unique yarns.
About Kerrie Allman
Kerrie has been knitting for 20 years and lives just outside of London in the UK with her husband and 2 small children. She is passionate about her children as well as her knitting and has managed to combine both of these loves in her design work. Kerrie is the founder, editor and publisher of MagKnits.com, an online magazine providing free knitting patterns from a variety of new designers. In August 2005, Kerrie bought the UK based business HipKnits (www.hipknits.co.uk) who sell handpainted luxury yarns from around the world.
Web address of this AI: http://www.snowbooks.com/ai9781905005437.html
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Sales information:
-Kerrie Allman and MagKnits are well-known internationally. Kerrie is a savvy marketer with a major network of contacts and collaborators.
-Yarn vendors and hand-painted yarn producers should stock & support the book as a tool for using their (pricey) wares.
-The patterns in this book will be gorgeous, not just inspiring.
-Many projects will call for small amounts of handpaints.
Marketing information:
Angles for stories: Make the most of the gorgeous handpainted yarn you bought but can't figure out how to use. Festivals, yarn stores, and the Internet are full of unique and beautiful yarns from small producers; in this book, the founder/editor of a popular knitting magazine and owner of her own handpaint company provides great information and gotta-have-it projects.
PR information:
Exciting launch at London's Knitting and Stitching show in October 2007. Heavy publicity within the knitting community.
UK Orders:
LBS Ltd, Faraday Close, Durrington, Worthing, W. Sussex, BN13 3RB
t: 01903 828511 / f: 01903 828801 / e: orders@lbsltd.co.uk
Also: Gardners, Bertrams, THE, EUK.
European Orders:
Durnell Marketing Ltd, 2 Linden Close, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 8HH
t: 01892 544272 / f: 01892 511152 / e: andrew@durnell.co.uk
Far East Orders:
Sales East, 43 Soi Pichit, Sukhumvit Road 18, Klong Toei 10110, Bangkok, Thailand
t: (+66) (0) 2 2581 305 / e: peter.couzens@gmail.com
US Orders:
CBSD, 1045 Westgate Drive, Suite 90, St Paul, MN 55114, USA
t: 651.221.9035 / f: 651.221.0124 / Pubnet: SAN 2006049 / www.cbsd.com
Australian Orders:
Hardie Grant, 85 High Street, Prahran, Victoria, 3181, Australia
t: 61 3 8520 6444 / f: 61 3 8520 6422 / e: jpinkham@bigpond.net.au
South African Orders:
Quartet Sales and Marketing, 12 Carmel Avenue, Northcliff, Johannesburg, South Africa
t: 0027 11.782.2034 / f: 0027 11.782.2053 / e: shirley@quartetsales.co.za