Amy Tyler eBook Collection: Working with Energized Yarns, Surface Textures, and More

Amy’s Energized Cinder Blocks Cowl is a gorgeous example of the texture that results from knitting certain simple knit-purl stitch patterns using energized singles. Learn how to create them in the “3-D Effects with Energized Singles” and then work up your own gorgeous cowl with the included pattern. Then, in “Bugs and Wraps: Break Plying Rules for Subtle Texture,” you'll focus on the tidy, textured-yarn effects that are possible with very few adjustments to traditional yarn components.

Contents

• 3-D Effects with Energized Singles
• Energized Cinder Blocks Cowl Pattern
• Bugs and Wraps: Break Plying Rules for Subtle Texture

Amy Tyler has spent her adult life studying human movement, both in art (modern dance) and in science (kinesiology, physiology). She spent nine years teaching physical therapy students about motor learning, neuromuscular physiology, biomechanics, and evidence-based therapy. She left the academic life in 2004 to pursue fiber arts. When asked recently by a former physiology colleague if she uses her science background in the fiber arts, she replied, “Every single day!”