Destination Alchemy

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This is a knit trip-a textile travel adventure for the discriminating fiber artist. Your traveling will take you to the land of exquisite hand paint luxuriousness yarn, where extraordinary natural fiber meets authentically artistic color. In this dynamic collection we offer 20 distinctive adventrues through lands of sensational color and texture, focusing on three of Alchemy’s inernationally-renowned fibers – Haiku, Silken Straw, and Silk Purse. Guided by pattern maps that ascertain person success, this collection of Alchemy initial designs will take you to exotic knitting destinations, with the almost pleasurable sensation of fright only knit travel may provide. Relax, sit back and remember: it’s not just a destination. It’s a journeying to ports of creativity, luxury, and the world of Alchemy.

About the AuthorAs creator’s of the world’s finest luxuriousness hand paint yarns, and as an innovative contemporary design house, Alchemy Yarns of Transformation is committed to supplying unsurpassed quality to the avid fiber arts enthusiast. Our goal is to synthesize the parts necessitated to offer the most extraordinary and satisfying knitting experience available. Combining time-honored Fine Art techniques, the most eminent quality custom-blended nobel fibers, and a reverence for Nature’s palette, we invent yarns that transcend the typical. We do not use any chemicals in dying our fiber. Only natural mordants are employed in applying color to the yarns, and all dyes are environmentally friendly and 100% non-toxic. Simply put, our fibers are designed to please the senses, soothe the soul, and honor the earth. As a design house, we develop templates for finelooking and distinguishable knitwear, with an special importance and significance on the architectural adage of form follows function. Our designs mindfully hug a remainder of procedure (an pleasurable and satisfying knit, with an special importance and significance on relaxing into the finelooking unfolding of extraordinary color and texture) and product (fashion-forward silhouettes that formulate very wearable works of art). Our designs are meant to engage the originative potential in each knitter, and offer clear, step-by-step guidance to see to it a successful and pleasurable knitting journey. Nestled in the beauteous rolling hills of Sonoma County, our Northern California studios and farm blend with the surrounding orchards and vineyards. Here our work family exercises the art of creating exquisite hand paint yarns. Our design team is composed of smart knitters from around the world, all of whom are committed to palliating other knitter’s originative processes in the most logical and intuitive manner possible. At Alchemy, we believe that our committment to living life to it is fullest – to recognizing and celebrating health, healing, love and light at each probability – is captured in each skein of yarn and each design we make. By creating our work with such intent, we trust that this beauty is given over to you when you choose our fiber and designs in aid of your originative expression. We invite you to share our passion.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A lovely collection of interesting patterns
By S. Rosner
This is a beautiful book! The designs range from basic classic silhouettes to more innovative styles and include both accessories and full garments. The instructions are clear, with detailed schematics. Beyond the patterns, the photography and graphics are gorgeous. The hadcover binding lays flat, so it’s easy to work from this book. Unlike most yarn companies, whose pattern books are planned to last only one season, Alchemy has produced a book you’ll return to again and again.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointing…
By Laurie Kramer
The fact that the book lays open flat is great, the pictures are lovely, the colors are eye catching, the yarns are gorgeous!

This book focuses on three of Alchemy’s yarns – Silken Straw (100% Silk floss), Haiku (40% Silk 60% Mohair) and Silk Purse (100% Silk single), all of which are very attractive and tactilly appealing to work with.

I had seen one pattern (Muse) that I REALLY wanted, and I justified the purchase by assuming that there would be other patterns that I would like to knit up as well, based soley on the pattern I had seen and the yarns they were focusing on.

When I received the book I was fairly disappointed to find that out of 77 pages and 20 patterns, only four patterns(including Muse) even worth my consideration (1 cardigan, 1 tank, 1 scarf & 1 lacy wrap). In all there were 3 scarves, 3 pullovers, 2 tank/camisoles, 4 wraps, 1 purse, 2 ties (1 standard & 1 ascot), 3 cardigans, 1 kercheif, and 1 shrug.

Only 1 tank/camisole and 1 cardigan (Muse) had ANY shaping what so ever, everything else was very unflattering in straight box styles.

This book COULD have been AMAZING, but sadly fell very flat.

I will knit up the pattern for which I purchased the book, and will call it a *relatively* inexpensive lesson…

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
good knitting
By A
Lovely patterns for lovely yarns. Easy to read and instructions are clear. Love the pictures of each item.