[.uk] 25 Bags to Knit: Beautiful Bags in Stylish Colours (ISBN 1843402211)

Fun book but pattern mistakes.:
This book is for someone looking for fun bags with different color options. But, if you are creative and can mix and match your own colors and textures, this book will be boring for you. If you are experienced in combining fancy stitches like bubbles, ruffles, and knitting with beads, then this is not for you. But if you don't often use them, it's a fun way to try different combinations of stitches. I'm addicted to knitting books, so this was fun to add to my library, but I would be remiss in recommending it to everyone. Having said that, there is one important problem not mentioned in any reviews yet. There are mistakes in some of the patterns. For instance, in the "Fancy" bag on page 18, there are several mistakes. Only moderate to experienced knitters will figure out how to get through this bag. Some sloppy mistakes like "break yarn" when you really don't have to, and continue rows 3-8 when it should read 4-8 (otherwise not in stockinette stitch anymore). There was a HUGE mistake omitting an entire increase row which is a foundation row for the whole pattern of increase and decrease. The pattern read "repeat row 2 and 3" which were simply knit and purl with no other mention to increasing. That throws the whole pattern off and impossible to make as written. You don't see the mistake until 10 rows later where the next increase is building off the first one. Fortunately, the pictures are excellent and close up enough to actually see what should have been happening. With a piece of paper mapping out the increases beyond the first one, I could figure out what should have been happening, but not everyone will want to do that. I have not gone through all the patterns, but have seen a couple of other minor mistakes. This was the most glaring example I found. The quality of the book itself is wonderful with great photography of the pieces. Inspiring color combinations for those of us who are creatively challenged. Also, the back of the book has a fairly good techniques section. So it really depends on what you are expecting, and your level of experience and creativity. So to be safe, you probably should try a library check-out first before deciding to buy the book. Another suggestion would be to go to the author's website (easy to find by searching her name and the word "knit") Most all of the bags featured in the book are pictured there so you can see what is being offered.

Well, if you have little girls in your life..:
...then some of these bags would appeal to you. Little girls like bobbles more than adults do I think. I did see a few (maybe 3) bags that I thought were cute. I ended up making the Clementine clutch and it really did come out super cute, although the pattern directions were a little unclear. I noticed that the pictures of the bag show the two sides different (for example, the Clementine clutch has a few rows of stockinette stitch on the front) but the pattern says to make both sides the same! Weird. Overall, this is definetely a library borrow, not a purchase. I expected a little bit more.

Garter stitch bag over and over and over:
Not much else to say about it other than that. Oh but wait we fresh it up with some different yarns. Seriously are you going to spend $100 on yarn to make one boring bag? They are pretty... pretty simple. Don't waste your money.

Good inspiration:
I really enjoyed this book. I hadn't been knitting long and wanted to make some nice knitted bags for birthdays etc. This book was great for that. It is rather repetetive at times, there are the same patterns and styles of bag, just in different colours, but generally speaking it gives good inspiration to adapt the patterns. They are easily interchangable with different yarns giving good results. I have found a few errors in the patterns, but that has just made me feel more competent as I corrected them myself! Overall, I liked this book.

Lovely book:
I'm an international buyer and this is my first review. For me is a lovely book,I think that's the some to all that love to knit.