Challenging, but not overwhelmingly so. A cute book with cute patterns for many skill levels.

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for this ARC

As an experienced knitter, I didn't find this book very exciting--but if you're a beginner, this is probably a great resource to have as you start playing with color!

ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
3.5 stars for Gradient Style. It's a good instructional book to show you how you can accomplish the gradient coloring style.

One of the things I find most intimidating when it comes to making (knitting, crocheting, quilting, general sewing, etc.) is colorways. I love using color, but I don’t feel as though I have an eye for what goes well together (my mother is very gifted in this regard!). For this reason, I often purchase coordinating fabrics within a particular line (can’t mess up too badly if they were designed to go together, right?) and yarns that are designed to create a certain multicolor look (they are striping or create an ombre look without any effort on my part). It takes the pressure off, usually achieves the look I want, and all I have to do is follow a pattern. Easy peasy. It’s great that these options are out there for the color-challenged (or just color-terrified!), but it also limits your options. And truthfully, it feeds my creative need more when I’ve done it the “hard” way. Fortunately, there are books like "Gradient Style" to help people like me take a bolder approach with our designs.

In truth, the majority of the book consists of patterns. Gorgeous, drool-worthy patterns. Twenty of them! And the book is worth a purchase for that reason alone. But the front sections are essential for makers who want a firmer grasp on color theory and techniques that create different types of gradient styles in any project. The explanation of color theory is better than many I’ve seen (not that any have ever stuck with me; my mind is like a sieve when it comes to color theory terminology), and the pictures and graphics that support that explanation are excellent. That section is followed by several different techniques for creating gradient looks within your knitting project (though it would translate to crochet rather well, I think) using a couple of preferred colors. It explains how to use other colors to tie together colors that might not blend well if put right next to each other. It’s all easy to understand, well-supported visually, and then backed up by the stellar patterns that follow. Essentially, it’s a lifesaver for people like me.

I found "Gradient Style" to be extremely useful, and I’m putting it on my wish list (hmmm…Mother’s Day is coming up). If you don’t trust yourself to mix colors in your fiber arts, this is for you. If you love great knitting patterns with beautiful gradient style, this book is for you.

This book is a great resource for learning how to best use your yarns to make your own fade or gradient knitted item. It talks about using the color wheel to its best advantage in a gradient or fade. It talks it about the difference of gradient and fade as well. The patterns are really nice that are included in the book. I think most of the techniques can translate to crocheting a fade or gradient. The wording is easy to understand and has full color diagrams and photos.

This well-photographed knitting book takes the beginner color enthusiast through all the steps needed to create a variety of gradients in knitting - who knew there were so many ways to create a gradient! - from choosing colors, creative ways to bridge from one color to the next, to different ways to blend from one color to the next. All methods have beautiful examples knit up so that you can easily see the differences and how they might be best suited. Following these methods are 19 patterns that all use gradients in different ways, with all sorts of garments represented, from socks to pullovers, scarves to cardigans, shawls to hats. This is a nice colorful book for a browsing collection at a library, sure to draw the eye and get the creative juices flowing.

Nice knitting book.
Lots of great ideas and options for gradient knitting.
Variegated wool or using multiple colours, gives such a wonderful affect.
Recommended to all who enjoy something different.

Gradient Style is an appealing technique and color tutorial book from Interweave. Focused around DIY ombre color shifting (not just relying on pre-dyed ombres), it includes 19 well curated projects by designers who will be well known to the ravelry and fashion knitting crowd.

Released 25th Dec 2018 by F+W Media, it's 160 pages and available in ebook and paperback formats.

The projects vary in style and type. Stoles and scarves are well represented as are hats. There are some larger projects, a pullover, a tee, and a few cardigans. There are also a couple pairs of socks. One of the really valuable bits of the book for me personally was the technique and color tutorials in the introductory chapter. Armed with this information, it's entirely possible to swatch a bit and come up with a workable plan for converting more or less any pattern to a color shifting masterpiece. I've always been a rather timid knitter when it comes to color. I think this book will give me the little push I needed to be bolder in color choice.

This book (as well as most Interweave offerings lately) is well photographed and documented. The book is liberally peppered with online resources and links to designers' web spaces. There are also basic technique and knitting illustrations included at the back of the book as well as a selection of online retailers for sourcing yarns and supplies.

Well made book full of lots of lovely projects.

Five stars.

This book is full of wonderful patterns, colourful pictures and easy to follow instructions to make a wide range of garments. I' really looking forward to getting stuck in to make some new things. The patterns are about evenly broken up into shawls/scarves/cowls, pullovers, and other accessories, and each uses a different method of fading from one yarn or color to the next.

I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for a honest review.

I loved this book! The moment I turned the pages, I already have a few ideas for my next knitting projects for this year. The instructions were very clear and informative. The designs are simply amazing. This book is a great resource for whoever wants to learn color-shifting techniques.

Gradient style is a great instruction book for this very trendy gradient knit faze, takes you through the many ways to accomplish a well done gradient for all kinds of garments. Well explained and beautiful pictures. Very well done and not a waste of your time or money.

Ombre and self striping yarns are currently in style., however the ombré effect yarns can be very expensive or not come in yardages that you need. And what if a striping yarn doesn’t change color when and where you need it to? Gradient Style lays out several methods of striping and just as important how to choose yarns that will blend well together. It is not just a shift of color, but color texture.

I have found this book a useful guide to blending yarns so that they will transition smoothly from one color to the next. This book will be helpful for stash busting enough yarns for a larger project, resulting in a garment that looks well designed.

Book is well written, great ideas for a knitter. Like any other kind of knitting book or pattern, you have to adapt to what yarn you already have. I certainly don't get a pattern, then buy that specific yarn to knit it.

I looked at this book hoping it would show me more how to work colour into my knitting. Whilst it talked about the colour wheel, it did not explain any more that what I already gained from basic online sources. Also the emphasis of the patterns were on using wools that had a pre colour gradient in them, not creating your own combination of colour gradient, which would be more challenging but also very interesting. Overall if you are an absolute beginner and want to create a garment that has a colour gradient then this book will be helpful.

This book aims to teach readers how to take their knitting from one color to beautiful color gradients weather through bold stripes are subtitle mix ins. The author does a good job making color theory easy to understand, and the patterns included look fun and actually doable. My galley was “optimized” for digital reading and while no words were missing, may of the beautiful pictures were cut off. But what I could see looked like very fun projects to make and wear.

This book is such a great resource for someone like me who collects variegated yarn for a special undetermined project! The book starts out with color theory and helping the reader choose the right colors for their project. Next, the author gives ideas of different gradient methods and shows samples of how that knits up in the real world.

There are well written directions for several projects including hats, stoles, sweaters and socks. What I love most about the patterns, besides the lovely photos that accompany each project, is that the sweater instructions are for several different sizes, including what I'd estimate to be a 4x! It's so refreshing to go through so many beautiful project and know that they are sized for larger women, too. There are charts for more inticrate patterns and there are also set-aside sections for special stitches that are used in a particular project. In the back, the author includes a glossary of different knitting terms that is helpful for beginners and experienced knitters alike! I highly recommend this book for anyone who loves color and is interested in combining several beautiful skeins of yarn into an even more beautiful project!

I like the first part of the book which shows the results achieved from various ways of combining different colored yarns. I like knitting samples and I can see duplicating this exercise with my own yarns. The section of the book which contained lots of knitting projects had a hat I really liked. It uses two different color schemes, purples and sunset colors to make a nice contrasting geometric pattern. I would probably adapt this type of pattern to a hand spun yarn so that there wouldn't be so many ends to weave in.

I grew up in a town without a yarn shop. In those long lost days before mail order knitters were at the mercy of the local 5 & 10, and those stores stocked baby weight and worsted weight synthetic yarns, brightly colored and machine washable. Variegated worsted yarns tended to jump across colors more than gradual shifts within color families. Multicolored knitting was usually stripes. There are lots of variegated knitted and crocheted afghans in my community.

That is not what this book is about. Today knitters can choose among thousands of yarns of all weights and composition and, thanks to the availability of a wide range of knitting help, online and in books, the ambitious artisan can do almost anything the mind can imagine in thread.

In the same way that detailed instruction on shaping is useful, even for experienced knitters, direct instruction on color changes in knitting will result in more creative and skilled use of color. Here we are seeking gradual color changes rather than contrasts to give the desired effects.

The book begins with a discussion of color theory. The explanation is too simplistic and thus not exactly accurate. There are whole books devoted to color choice in display and crafts. Some of the best online sources are prepared by Cynthia Brewer a famous cartographer. I use her book on designing better maps as a color guide. Cartographers work in print and thus have more perfect control over color choice than knitters, but Ms Brewer's discussion of how color choices affect usefulness and beauty is relevant to all color applications.

From color the book moves on to a few methods of color switching and suggests some swatches. I found this discussion unclear and had a hard time identifying what was being shown in the swatches. There is no instruction on advanced color knitting techniques like brioche, although one of the patterns is knitted in brioche.

These introductory sections are only about 15 mostly-white pages. From there the book jumps right into patterns, which is ridiculous. The patterns are just ordinary patterns for hats, tops, scarves, and shrugs, shown in gradient colors. There isn't enough instruction for beginners and the book is too simplistic for experienced knitters.

I would not recommend this book to anyone. If you are interested in color, look at books on color theory. If you need instruction on knitting techniques, there are loads of excellent ones.

This beautiful book is a treat of color happiness on a grey winter’s day! Kerry Bogert delivers a double handful of gradient patterns for projects ranging in size from socks and cowls to cardigans. Her instructional focus is on creating multi-yarn gradients, and working with a color wheel to plan transitions. She does sneak in a pattern or two that use the fabulous long color changing gradients designed by dyers such as Tina Whitmore of Freia Fibers. I would have liked to read a bit more on how to plan for the use of these yarns, since their yardage needs to carefully be matched with that of the project.
Several projects begged to be added to my project list immediately, including the lovely Denim Stripes cardigan by Kathryn Folkerth, the Shape-shifter scarf by Natalie Servant, and the cover Spectrum hat by Kyle Kunnecke.
This book had me looking a the patterns already in my list in a new way, thinking about how gradient color can be used for new and unusual results.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Most knitters have used yarns that provide a gradient of colors in one skein, either hombre or variegated. This book explains to knitters how to make your own gradients with different solid color yarns. The first chapter focuses on combining the right colors in different ways to get different effects. The remainder of the book includes a large number of patterns, from simple to complex. Most of the styles/patterns were a bit too bold for my taste, but I did find a couple that were nice (e.g., a seed stitch pullover with a subtle gradient of color).
Instructions are written for an intermediate to advanced knitter. As someone who knits mostly basic patterns, I found them just a bit difficult to follow. However, there was a nice section at the back of the book that showed how to do various stitches/techniques.