Overview
17 stunning Tunisian crochet garments to make with love and wear with pride, from elegant summer tops to cozy winter jackets. Tunisian crochet is a popular technique that shares similarities with both crochet and knitting. The versatile range of textures it can create, from richly dense to delicate and lace-like, is used to full effect in this sumptuous book from Danish designer and teacher Helle Kampp Mathorne. Ideal for experienced crafters, the book blends Tunisian crochet with elements of both standard crochet and knitting to create 17 stunning garment designs for all seasons. Choose from: A richly textured skirt with a knitted rib hem; An elegant camisole with glitter stripes and crocheted straps; A long jacket with wheat stitch pattern and raglan sleeves; A stylish camisole with a flower-lace back; And warm, huggable wardrobe staples including roll-necks, cardigans and sweaters. The designs are written for UK sizes 6 to 18 (US sizes 2 to 14). Charts are included, and a thorough techniques section features the Tunisian crochet stitches and techniques you need with step-by-step visuals. The stunning photography and easy-to-follow patterns will provide both inspiration and guidance when creating your own slow fashion, handmade wardrobe.
Full Product Details
Author: Helle Kampp Mathorne
Publisher: Search Press Ltd
Imprint: Search Press Ltd
Weight: 0.369kg
ISBN: 9781800922402
ISBN 10: 180092240
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 13 December 2024
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Language: Danish
Reviews
This beautiful book is by Helle Kampp Mathorne and is full of the most exquisite Tunisian Crochet garments. I couldn’t help myself and had a quick look already and oh my…. The book is full of beautiful designs and so many of them with raglan shaping, which I adore!! If you need me, I’ll be here devouring this book. Will tell you more about it soon. Thank you Search Press for gifting me the book and thank you Helle for designing such beauties. * @annanikipirowicz * Mathorne presents a collection of 17 Tunisianwork garment patterns for adult women, with patterns that accommodate multiple sizes. The models, too, illustrate multiple racial, ethnic, and body types. The work is translated from Danish and was originally published in Britain, and the English translation comes with an abbreviation chart and a terminology conversion table (some U.S. terms are different from their British counterparts), but there is an occasional British-specific word or term that will present a minor challenge for U.S. readers. This is for intermediate and experienced users of the Tunisianwork technique, as it has only minimal instructions at the back. Mathorne assumes that crafters have already mastered both the technique and sewing basics (e.g., determining a garment’s size). Also, these instructions are for right-handed crafters only, with no conversion instructions for left-handed crafters. VERDICT: This book is of limited, narrow interest, best for experienced right-handed crafters interested in making women’s garments and comfortable with British terminology. If crocheters are interested in creating garments for men or children, or if they are left-handed, they will need to know how to do their own conversions. Buy only where there is demand. -- Marjorie Mann * Library Journal * There's a touch of Scandinavian hygge about this sleek tome of Tunisian tops by Danish knitter, Helle Kampp Mathorne, who has brought together her friends and family to model her 17 sweaters, and their mutual warmth glows from its pages. There still aren't enough books for Tunisian crocheters and many are stitch dictionaries rather than project/pattern books, so this one slips, welcomed, into a gap in the market. Helle's carefully crafted garments are organised in seasons, with four or five projects for each. My favourite is Winter's Rosemary, a long jacket with a cable-like wheatsheaf texture. Indeed, texture, rather than colour, appears to be the design focus for this collection, which offers some interesting and inspiring stitch combinations and techniques for the Tunisian crocheter interested in taking their skills to new heights. The photography is polished and the models 'real', effectively targeting a certain demographic that, you might say, is well catered for but in our own dear Guild. There is a 'but' coming, though! For my own part, Tunisian crochet, like the knitting and traditional crochet of which it is a conceptual hybrid, takes time and tenacity and I, for one, after putting in all the effort of making a full-blown garment, would prefer to end up with a wearable item that's just a teensy bit more, well, spectacular? Helle is a knitter first, I think, and her patterns for Tunisian crochet have been treated with the gravitas usually afforded to knitting, which I support wholeheartedly as it has, too often, been treated with something less than the respect it deserves - being variously named 'Afghan crochet' (giving the impression you can only make blankets with it), railway stitch and even 'idiot stitch'! However, this book's value, for me, promised to be in some of its advanced techniques, explained through fully illustrated steps. For example, the 'Italian cast on' and the 'wheatsheaf on a diagonal', which promised to bring my skills on apace and sow some new seeds in my creative brain. So, I sat down to teach myself some new tricks. Disappointingly, I struggled and grappled, rather, with the instructions. I did, eventually, get the hang of the wheatsheaf rib, but felt it could have been explained much more succinctly. This may, partly, be to do with the translation, as I am assuming that the original script was in Danish. I'm referring to the specific action of inserting the hook and pulling a loop (in which the yarn round the hook is implied, otherwise you wouldn't be able to pull up a loop). Commonly, the written instruction after inserting your hook is 'yrh and pul' and even just 'pul'. Helle labours that same instruction into 'yarn over and pull the yarn over back through the space', making this very small action appear much more complicated, alien and potentially difficult than it really is. But once I had understood the stitch's concept, I was able to recognise that there was a missing step in the instructions where the pul part was (I think inadvertently) skipped! Minor criticisms apart, this book is a huge achievement and Helle is clearly a master craftswoman with a wealth of knowledge and experience from which I will continue to draw. This book is a valuable addition to my bookshelf that will be much thumbed for its advanced techniques and attention to detail. More high-end Tunisian garment pattern books such as this are needed! -- Linda Zubairy * Slipknot * Helle Kampp Mathorne's Tunisian Crochet presents 17 gorgeous garment patterns that blend the unique textures of Tunisian crochet with elements of traditional crochet and knitting. This collection offers projects suitable for various seasons, from light summer tops to cosy winter jackets. See full blog review here: https://coolwoolschool.com/blog-tunisian-crochet-garments * @coolwooldesign * Aimed at more experienced crocheters, Danish designer Helle's latest book is filled with wearable designs. Hooked in gorgeous yarns featuring hybrid pieces combining elements of Tunisian crochet, crochet and knitting, the patterns are arranged by seasons. We love the classic styling of the V-necked Anemone Sweater and the pretty lacy mohair-silk Star Top, perfect for spring. * Inside Crochet *
This beautiful book is by Helle Kampp Mathorne and is full of the most exquisite Tunisian Crochet garments. I couldn’t help myself and had a quick look already and oh my…. The book is full of beautiful designs and so many of them with raglan shaping, which I adore!! If you need me, I’ll be here devouring this book. Will tell you more about it soon. Thank you Search Press for gifting me the book and thank you Helle for designing such beauties. * @annanikipirowicz *
Author Information
HELLE KAMPP MATHORNE has been involved in needlework and handicrafts all her life; she learned to embroider and knit when she was five years old, and was sewing her own clothes when she was 14. Since 1994, when she became a handicraft teacher, she has worked professionally, both in fabric and yarn, designing and teaching workshops. Through her company, Kampp Design, Helle has worked for a number of years as a freelance designer for handicraft magazines, designing knitting, crochet and Tunisian crochet patterns. Helle lives in Farum, near Copenhagen in Denmark. Visit: www.kampp-design.dk or follow Helle on Instagram: @kamppdesign
