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Knitting Beyond the Hebrides
Color cards & pattern lists

 
Alice Starmore yarns
 
CURRENT (available from Virtual Yarns)

Color card scan

Ordering information

Bainin
back in production August 2010
150 meters/165 yards/100g
Aran weight
wool - 8 colors

Hebridean 2-ply
85 meters/93 yards/25g
sport weight
Shetland wool
technical information 

Hebridean 3-ply
100 meters/110 yards/50g
worsted weight
Shetland wool
technical information

about Hebridean colors

Scottish Fleet
240 yards/100g
fingering weight
wool
colors   ordering

VINTAGE (no longer in production)

Color cards at Knitting Beyond the Hebrides (scroll down)

Bainin
150 yards/100g
Aran weight
wool
color card at Knitting Beyond the Hebrides
back in production as of August 2010

Dunedin
170 yards/50g
sport weight
wool

Scottish Campion 
150 yards/1 oz.
fingering weight
2 ply Shetland wool
color cards:  1  2  3
substitutions: Jamieson's Shetland Spindrift - Anne Featonby's list
Camilla Valley Farm list

Scottish Fleet
245 yards/100g
fingering weight
5-ply wool
color card

current Virtual Yarns version

Scottish Heather
120 yards/2 oz.
worsted weight
plied Shetland wool
color cards: 1  2 (Tomato Factory)
substitutions: Jamieson's Heather Aran

Starmore knitting books & pattern collections

Alice Starmore:
Scandinavian Knitwear (1981, Bell & Hyman)
Knitting from the British Islands (1982, Bell & Hyman, St. Martin's Press)
Children's Knitting from Many Lands (1983, Bell & Hyman)
Sweaters for Men (1988, Ballantine Books, Pavilion Books)
Alice Starmore's Book of Fair Isle Knitting (1988, Taunton Press)
The Celtic Collection (1992, Anaya, Trafalgar Square)
Charts for Colour Knitting (1992, Windfall Press); new expanded edition to be published by Dover in October 2011.
Fishermen's Sweaters (1993, Anaya, Trafalgar Square. Also published in Sweden)
The Scottish Collection (pattern booklet, 1992; Tomato Factory Yarn Co.)
A Scottish Garland (pattern booklet, 1993; Tomato Factory Yarn Co.)
American Portraits (pattern booklet, 1994; Tomato Factory Yarn Co.)
In the Hebrides (1995, Windfall Press/The Broad Bay Company)
Stillwater (1996, Windfall Press/The Broad Bay Company)
Aran Knitting (1997, Interweave Press)
Pacific Coast Highway (with Jade Starmore; 1997, Windfall Press/The Broad Bay Company)
Tudor Roses (with Jade Starmore; 1998, Windfall Press/The Broad Bay Company) [Jan. 2012: new edition to be published by Dover in August 2013]
The Children's Collection (with Jade Starmore; 2000, Interweave Press)
Alice Starmore's Book of Fair Isle Knitting  (2009, Dover Publications; reprint of 1988 edition)
Aran Knitting (2010, Dover Publications - expanded edition with new photos and one new design)

As of January 2012, the only books in print are The Celtic Collection, Fishermen's Sweaters, and the Dover editions of the Book of Fair Isle Knitting, Aran Knitting, and Charts for Colour Knitting (the last just published in a new expanded edition). A new edition of Tudor Roses will be published by Dover in August 2013.

Jade Starmore:
Pacific Coast Highway (with Alice Starmore; 1997, Windfall Press/The Broad Bay Company)
Tudor Roses (with Alice Starmore; 1998, Windfall Press/The Broad Bay Company)
[Jan. 2012: new edition to be published by Dover in August 2013]
A Collector's Item (1999, Windfall Press/The Broad Bay Company)
The Children's Collection
(2000, Interweave Press; with Alice Starmore)

all four titles are out of print. A Collector's Item and The Children's Collection are available directly from Virtual Yarns.

 

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