Susan Duckworth was one of the pioneers of the "new wave" of British knitting designers of the Seventies, when an explosion of intense activity and experiment with colour and yarns totally transformed knitting"s dowdy twinset-and-pearls image into the vibrant, high-fashion, high-profile master-craft of today. And over the past decade or so her work has consistently developed into new and interesting areas. It draws on a huge range of inspirational sources -from the flowers and fields surrounding her home in Surrey, to Elizabethan embroideries, oriental textiles, Georgian architectural decoration and Venetian painting. And it is fuelled by a remarkable inventiveness. She is constantly taking the tried and familiar, whether it be a traditional cable or Fair Isle pattern, and, by adding colour and texture, recreating it as something quite fresh and new.This book is her first published collection of designs, and includes over 30 patterns, all extraordinarily different. There are delicate pastel summer cottons, a cabled jacket encrusted with bobbles and twining leaves, a fragile creamy cardigan, a magnificent coat in a completely original interlaced stitch, a deliciously tactile, rose-patterned mohair jacket and pullover, a sweater fluttering with a multitude of moths in soft pinks and blues, and richly decorated sweaters covered in a profusion of blowsy cabbage roses or luscious pansies or camellias, or with strutting peacocks, or sitting ducks. All these designs straddle the worlds of fashion and craft with a rare grace. They are wonderfully wearable, timeless classics that will look as good in decades as they do today.The patterns are accompanied by all the necessary charts and instructions, and are lavishly illustrated, often in several colour-ways. Yarn kits are available for ten of the designs.