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Kaffe Knits Again

24 original designs updated for today's knitters

"Quick! What's the firstword you think of when you hear the name Kaffe Fassett? If it wasn't 'colour' then you haven't yet entered the world of this talented and internationally known designer and it's high time you do...Other words for Kaffe and his 24 new designs: scrumptious, lush, amazing and fun come to mind. We are so glad he's back!"

Knit N' Style Magazine

Available at all good bookshops.

Kaffe & Brandon appear in the DVD "Real Men Knit"

New documentary that focuses on men’s roles in
knitting, past, present and future

• Conversations with legendary knitters Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably
  
• Learn to knit a hat with Eugene Bourgeois
  
• Male knitters from across America explain why more men should knit
  
• A brief history of men and knitting

More information....

To see more images from this DVD and to order click here.

New Publications:

The New Country Style, England

Inspiration for Modern Living

Ingrid Rasmussen and Chloe Grimshaw

Thames and Hudson 2006

Featuring Kaffe Fassett's and Bradon Mably's Seaside Home.

To purchase at Amazon USA             Amazon UK

At Home with Pattern

Sally Conran, Katherine Sorrell

Photography by Claire Richardson

Ryland Peters and Small 2006

Featuring Kaffe Fassett's and Bradon Mably's Seaside Home.

Synopsis
Transform your home with pattern, with great ideas for every space. Pattern is back in fashion in interior design, and there is no doubt that using it well can add character, richness and vitality to a home. From the subtlety of one-colour or textural patterns to the drama of overscaled, vivid patterns, the sheer variety available is breathtaking. "At Home with Pattern" divides contemporary pattern into six major themes: Modern Classics, Opulent Glamour, New Naturalism, Bold and Brave, Nostalgia Reinvented, and Eclectic Inspiration - and offers something for all tastes, whether feminine florals, sophisticated stripes or colourful 1960s abstracts.

To purchase at Amazon USA             Amazon UK

Sticka Med Kaffe Fassett (Swedish)

Natur och Kultur 2006

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Kaffe Fassett's Kaleidoscope of Quilt's

Twenty Designs from Rowan for Patchwork and Quilting

Rowan 2006

Book Description
In Kaffe Fassett's Kaleidoscope of Quilts, Kaffe offers the reader a range of 20 individual designs that feature both the new fabrics in Rowan's patchwork range and some firm favorites. Photographed against the glittering backdrop of the Mediterranean island of Malta, these quilts echo the bright sunshine colors in a glorious array of new designs from both Kaffe and his team, Liza Prior-Lucy and Pauline Smith. With each quilt comes illustrated step-by-step instructions with colored diagrams, a 'flat shot' photo, and the quilt template.

You can order it now at:

Amazon USA    or        Amazon UK

Kaffe Fassett's "A Caravan of Quilts"

Think glorious pattern, exuberant colour and quilts that resonate with inspiration and you'll capture some of the 'joie de vivre' of the latest Rowan patchwork and quilting book, Kaffe Fassett's Caravan of Quilts.

Styled by Kaffe himself, book six in the patchwork and quilting series showcases the newest printed fabrics from Rowan. With twenty great projects by familiar designers like Liza Prior Lucy, Pauline Smith and Brandon Mably, as well as Kaffe himself, there are projects by new designers Betsy Mennesson and Gill Turley too.

Whether you are a beginner or a serious practionner, you'll find plenty of ideas, technical know-how and tips in the comprehensive glossary, with flat shots of every project and detailed instructions.

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Kaffe Fassett's Pattern Library Over
 190 creative knitwear designs

For over 30 years, Kaffe Fassett has produced some of the worlds’ most successful knitting designs. Now, for the first time, "Kaffe Fassett’s Pattern Library" brings together in one place a collection of over 190 of his most brilliant creations.

Each design is illustrated with a close-up photographic match, accompanied by a detailed color chart, so you can copy the pattern. A general chapter on creating your own designs, covering issues such as scale, repeats and borders, enables you to share in Kaffe’s creative process and benefit from his unique tips for designing your own pieces. Whether you are an experienced knitter or a beginner looking for the best place to start, the Fassett creations featured in this book will open up new possibilities, introducing you to an ever-exciting world of color.

    -  Over 190 exquisite patterns from the world’s foremost textile artist

     -  Easy-to-follow, illustrated designs with close-ups and a detailed color chart to enable you to copy the pattern

      -  Practical articles and tips to design your own patterns

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Passionate Patchwork
 with Liza Prior Lucy

Over 20 brilliant and original quilt designs from a master

Kaffe Fassett, one of the world's foremost decorative artists, brings his dazzling color sensibilities to the art of quilting.

Fassett's new patchwork designs explore the use of prints and color, combining them with the building blocks of circles, squares, diamonds and triangles. The patterns in this book are artfully arranged, incorporating some of Fassett's own stunning fabric designs.

You'll discover over twenty new designs including full-sized quilts, tablecloths, cushion covers, and baby quilts. As always, Fassett's creations illustrate how awe-inspiring the decorative arts can be. There are detailed instructions and simple, colored piecing diagrams for each patchwork with templates for tracing included in the back of the book. And if you are new to patchwork, you'll find the necessary basic start-to-finish directions in a special chapter.

"Why strive for complicated, difficult to sew arrangements when simple, squares, diamonds and triangles are so endlessly fascinating as long as the colors are alive."

-- from Passionate Patchwork

Family Album
Kaffe Fassett & Zoe Hunt

80 variations on 33 basic patterns

Designer Kaffe Fassett has made a tremendous impact on the world of knitting. Through his lectures, exhibitions, television series, and books, Kaffe has brought his colorful ideas to a worldwide audience and inspired knitters everywhere.

Following his highly successful book Glorious Knitting, Kaffe has now teamed up with fellow designer Zoë Hunt to produce a brilliantly colorful knitwear collection to suit all ages. The 33 basic patterns are grouped according to their motifs, which include squares and plaids, circles and dots, flowers and bows, and many more. Almost 80 variations on the basic patterns are illustrated in over 200 photographs. In Family Album, Kaffe and Zoë form a design partnership that revels in the use of color and texture to produce a versatile, inspiring collection of patterns for the whole family.

Rowan Patchwork and Quilting
     Book Two - 20 Kaffe Fassett Designs

Here is a complete lifestyle book, photographed in a beautiful clapboard cottage on the beach, featuring fabulous designs for quilts to enhance any home. Designed by a group of contemporary artists, the quilts in this collection owe their special beauty to the distinctive hand-woven fabrics and prints. 

Glorious Patchwork 
     by Kaffe Fassett  and Liza Prior Lucy

Glorious Patchwork represents yet another craft breakthrough for Kaffe Fassett, who has fearlessly conquered the worlds of color knitting, needlepoint, and rug hooking. Here he teams up with quilt designer Liza Prior Lucy to produce a series of color-drenched patchwork designs that have a powerful impact and a subtle, pleasing symmetry. Fassett's text is chattier and more interesting than in his previous works; he is more capable of communicating the inspiration he finds in the natural patterns that the rest of us hardly notice. This is a book that will thrill textile and fiber craftspeople.

Rowan Patchwork and Quilting
     Book One - 13 Kaffe Fassett Designs

Chic designs for quilts, bags, pillows, and table linens fill the pages of this sophisticated collection of patterns by one of quilting's hottest designers. Offering both easy, straightforward projects, such as the "Striped Triangle Quilt," suitable for beginners, and the more dramatic "Magenta Floating Blocks Quilt" to challenge experienced sewers' skills, this workbook provides templates along with complete instructions.

Kaffe's Classics:
     25 Glorious Knitting Designs

Kaffe's Classics is a collection of 24 sweaters and one afghan, all fun to knit in the author's trademark vibrant colors and rich patterns. The sweater shapes are basic without being boring and unlikely to go out of fashion. Aimed at intermediate and advanced knitters, the book encourages readers to use their own variations on the designs.

Glorious Inspirations
     by Kaffe Fassett

This magical, oversized album provides a virtual treasure chest of wonderful ideas and a top designer's interpretations of some of the pieces. To find inspiring source material for impressive needlepoints and knits, you no longer need to trek to museums, pore through magazines, and search through old books. Shells and minerals, sea creatures, animals, fruit and foliage, and flowers.  Roses painted on an old-fashioned glass plate blossom into an embroidery of the richest reds, sunniest yellows, and liveliest pinks.

Glorious Needlepoint
     by Kaffe Fassett

This guide explores the full potential of needlepoint as an inspirational source. Kaffe's samples come from the natural world - the patterned markings of frogs, butterflies, flowers, shells and stones - the manmade markings of primitive cultures and the world of 20th-century art. The ideas and designs are grouped into chapters on: fruits and vegetables, fish and fowl, flowers and foliage, faces and fans, and jugs and geometrics. As well as charted patterns, the embroiderer is given many ideas for producing his or her own designs for colourful rugs, shoulder bags, cushions and other items - rooster tea cozy, maroon flower pyramid cushion, shoulder bag carpet, plum, pear and duck cushions.

Glorious Colors
     by Kaffe Fassett

"Fassett has firmly established himself as the single most exciting craft-and-color expert today."--Booklist. For knitting and needlepoint that explode with a riot of color and pattern, nothing beats these brilliant projects. But, this is more than a simple collection of eye-grabbing costumes and tapestries to make--it's a lesson in style by a truly original and fearless designer who doesn't hesitate to go gloriously over the top. And, that makes these brilliant photographs of objects that inspired his work--which range from small Oriental sculptures to London's stone walls--almost as much fun to look at as the projects are to do. Compare luminous blue-and-green Persian pots with a similarly shaded blue patch crewneck--and then knit the sweater yourself, either using the given colors or choosing other, equally rich tones that suit your own wardrobe.

Mosaics
     by Kaffe Fassett and Candace Bahouth

Superb colorist Kaffe Fassett departs from his usual medium of textiles to unleash his magic on the world of mosaics. Teamed with expert needle artist-turned-mosaicist Candace Bahouth, Fassett proves no less adept at manipulating the harder materials--glass and ceramic tesserae, broken china and tiles, mirror fragments, pebbles, seashells, and even faux pearls--than his accustomed softer substances of fabric and yarn. As with most of Fassett's oeuvre, this volume is more an assemblage of highly imaginative ideas than a traditional how-to approach. A number of the projects do include step-by-step instructions and there is good coverage of the basics (tools, materials, bases, tesserae preparation, adhesives, grouting), but the presentation presumes the readers' willingness to experiment, as well as some degree of confidence in their own creativity. But again, as is typical of Fassett's productions, the simple act of leafing through these pages offers unlimited inspiration.

Glorious Interiors
       by Kaffe Fassett

Many designers have the gift of gab; few can actually write. Kaffe Fassett is a delightful exception. Indeed, the text of Glorious Interiors is something rare in interior design: a down-to-earth account of a complex and sophisticated personal style. Drawing inspiration from circuses, fairgrounds, the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, the liveries of Pakistani trucks, and Slavic peasant costume, Fassett dedicates his book to "all those with a touch of gypsy who share my vision." Going by the vibrant kitsch, the obsessive repetition, and the migrainous, fractal surfaces of his trademark interiors, one suspects that not a few of them have ended up, tragically, in decidedly minimal circumstances, complete with soft white walls and bars on the windows.

Fassett's embroidered flower gardens, frog cushions, trompe l'oeil flower plates, and postage-stamp lampshades teeter spectacularly on the knife's edge separating genius from schizophrenia; his text, meanwhile, really makes the reader think--in a way few other books have ever done--about the emotional power of the richly patterned traditions of eastern Europe and the Indian subcontinent. Fassett contends that Western interiors--the best of them evoking "a sterile beigeness ... that chilled me to the core"--have lost all sense of humor. And he knows just what we need to get it back.

Kaffe Knits Again

24 Updated Rowan Original Designs by Kaffe Fassett

Rowan 2007

Kaffe Fassett's Quilts in the Sun

Twenty Designs from Rowan for Patchwork and Quilting

Rowan 2007

The Best of Vogue Knitting Magazine

25 Years of Articles, Techniques and Expert Advice

Sixth&Spring Books 2007

Featuring work by Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably

The New Country Style, England

Inspiration for Modern Living

Ingrid Rasmussen and Chloe Grimshaw

Thames and Hudson 2006

Featuring Kaffe Fassett's and Brandon Mably's Seaside House.

At Home With Pattern

Sally Conran, Katherine Sorrell

Photography by Claire Richardson

Ryland Peters and Small 2006

Featuring Kaffe Fassett's and Brandon Mably's Seaside House.

Sticka Med Kaffe Fassett (Swedish)

Natur Och Kultur 2006

Kaffe Fassett's Kaleidoscope of Quilts

Twenty Designs from Rowan for Patchwork and Quilting

Rowan 2006

Kaffe Fassett's V&A Quilts

23 Beautiful Patchworks Inspired by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Ebury Press 2005

Kaffe Fassett's Museum Quilts

Designs Inspired by the V&A Museum with Liza Prior Lucy

Taunton 2005

Kaffe Fassett's Quilt Road

Twenty Designs from Rowan for Patchwork and Quilting

Book Number 7

Rowan 2005

Maskinbroderi Med, Kaffe Fassett

Anna-Stina Linden Ivarsson, Lill Nylen

Natur och Kultur/Fakta 2005

Kaffe Fassett's Caravan of Quilts

Twenty Designs from Rowan for Patchwork and Quilting

Book Number 6

Rowan 2004

Kaffe Fassett's, A Colourful Journey

Over Twenty Designs from Rowan for Patchwork and Quilting

Book Number 5

Rowan 2003

Rowan Patchwork and Quilting Book Number 4

Rowan 2002

Rowan Patchwork and Quilting Book Number 3

Twenty Seven Projects

Rowan 2001

Kaffe Fassett's Pattern Library

Over 190 Original Knitting Motifs

Ebury Press 2001

Passionate Patchwork

Kaffe Fassett with Liza Prior Lucy

Over Twenty Original Designs

Ebury Press 2001

Rowan Patchwork and Quilting Book Number 2

Twenty Projects

Rowan 2000

Rowan Patchwork and Quilting Book Number 1

Thirteen Designs by Kaffe Fassett

Rowan 1999

Mosaics by Kaffe Fassett and Candace Bahouth

Ebury Press 1999

Welcome Home By Kaffe Fassett

Martingale USA Publishers 1999

Kaffe Fassett Patchwork with Liza Prior Lucy

Over 25 Glorious Quilt Designs

Ebury Press 1997

Glorious Inspiration

Kaffe Fassett's Needlepoint Source Book

Ebury Press 1997

Kaffe Fassett Glorious Interiors

Needlepoint, knitting and decorative design projects for your home.

Ebury Press 1995

Kaffe's Classics

25 Glorious Knitting Designs

Taunton 1993

Kaffe Fassett's Glorious Colour for Needlepoint and Knitting

Sterling 1993

Kaffe Fassett and Zoe Hunt

Family Album

Knitting for Children and Adults

Ebury Press 1989

Kaffe Fassett's Glorious Needlepoint

Ebury Press 1987

Kaffe Fassett's Glorious Knitting

Over 30 Exclusive Patterns

Ebury Press 1985