Fair Isle Flower Garden

Fair Isle Flower Garden by Kathleen Taylor

See how simple Fair Isle knitting can be with five beautiful patterns for kid-size knits.

Make a simple sleeveless dress, a jaunty matching hat, an adorable sweater and knit pants set, and a pretty cardigan--all in lovely, unique Fair Isle patterns. Knitwear designer Kathleen Taylor makes Fair Isle knitting accessible and approachable for all skill levels.

If you've never knitted Fair Isle before, but consider yourself a fairly handy knitter, these patterns are for you Detailed schematics and a special section on Fair Isle basics makes trying Fair Isle absolutely fearless for first timers and seasoned knitters alike.

Patterns include:

In the Flower Garden
Children's Dress
In the Flower Garden
Tam In the Flower Garden Children's Cardigan
In the Flower Garden Children's Pants
Geometric Dazzle
Children's Cardigan.

Dr Kathleen Taylor studied physiology and philosophy at the University of Oxford. After a research MSc at Stirling University, working on brain chemistry, she returned to Oxford to do a DPhil in visual neuroscience and postdoctoral work on cognitive neuroscience. In 2002 she won two writing
competitions run by the Times Higher Education Supplement, one for science writing and one for an essay in the humanities/social sciences. She has written on a range of topics from consciousness to cruelty, including several books published by OUP in the last decade: Brainwashing (2004), Cruelty
(2009) and The Brain Supremacy (2012).