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- Authors are respected artists and teachers with a large following on Ravelry, a craft website with 6MM members.
- A wide-range of projects that are excellent gifts…more than half of all knitters make a project with the intention of giving it away.
- According to the Craft Yarn Council, over 25 million consumers are engaged in the craft of knitting.
- Two-thirds of knitters get their ideas/inspiration from knitting books.
Audience
- Knitting enthusiasts.
- Makers and crafters looking to dive into the world of fiber arts.
- Fiber art teachers and instructors at craft and technical schools.
List of contents
- All Zipped Up
- Apple for the Teacher
- Aran Basket
- Bad Hair Day
- Berry Basket
- Button Beauty
- Chalk Board
- Cookie Cutter Christmas Basket
- Exotic
- Extraterrestrial
- Faux Basketweave Basket
- Field of Poppies
- Fish Bowl Basket
- Fluffy the Basket
- Folk Art Basket
- Knit Purl Slip Stitch Basket
- Life Savers Looper Basket
- McBasket
- Nesting Modular Baskets
- 2 Pencil Basket
- Noah's Ark
- Old Glory
- Origami Travel Basket
- Ozark Basket
- Pick, Pluck, Strum Basket
- Pinwheel Basket
- Plastic Bag Solution Basket
- Pumpkin Basket
- Seurat Reimagined
- Taxi
- Tie-Dyed Lotus
- Tiffany Lamp Basket
- Tiny Pencil
- Zoetrope
About the author
Nola A. Heidbreder has been teaching fiber art and handwork for 20 years from her studio in St. Louis, Missouri, and across the country. She has written articles and projects for Mary Engelbreit¿s
Home Companion and
Rug Hooking Magazine, as well as co-authoring several books, and has appeared on local and national television news programs.
Summary
If you have some knitting needles and yarn, Nola Heidbreder & Linda Pietz have 42 stylish baskets you can knit to bring some creativity and order to your home.
With baskets of varying sizes, styles, and uses, inspired by everything from stained glass and flags to fish bowls and poppies, Knitted Baskets offers up a wide selection of baskets that will appeal to all skill levels. With easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful photography to guide and inspire, each completed basket will be proudly put to work in your busy home or happily given to a loved one on your gift list.
Foreword
- Targeted comp mailing to national knitting magazines, including Knit Simple (circ. 30,000) Creative Knitting (circ. 30,000), Knits (25,000), and Knit ‘N Style (circ. 20,000).
- Targeted comp mailing to key knitting and yarn bloggers like Moogly (300,000), Goodknits (200,000), Loveknitting (275,000 FB), KnitPicks (266,000 FB) Ravelry (200,000 FB), Yarn Harlot (200,000 Twitter), Knitting Nuances (175,000 FB), Geeky Knitter (150,000 FB) among others.
- E-newsletters, digital flip book excerpts, and giveaway promotions with The Knitting Guild Association and Craft Yarn Council.
- Trade ad campaign in PW and Library Journal.
- Digital ad campaign, author Q&A and comp giveway on popular websites/facebook pages such as, Ravelry, Prime Media, and Knitting Daily.
- Author website: http://www.nolahooks.com
- Social media promotion through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
