Pretty in Punk Review

To tell you the truth, the cover was the reason why I bought this knitting book.  The mohawk hat looked like a challenge especially with the intarsia union jack.  The hat pattern is the signature pattern from the two author's online knitting store, knit-head.com.  The book, Pretty in Punk, is what I see is progressing in knitting - the move to fun, patterns that appeals to younger knitters or young at heart knitters (I'm one of the latter).  No longer is knitting about dull scarfs and sweaters. 

The two authors, Alyce Benevides and Jaqueline Milles, probably started  knitting like all of us with a simple stockinette scarf pattern.  But their creativity and resourcefullness lead them to create pieces that they wanted to wear, and in this case it was punk and a bit of goth.

Initially, I had thought that I would tackle the mohawk hat for my first attempt at intarisa, but after skimming the pattern and realizing I had no idea what intarsia entailed, I decided on the wrist band.

Not bad for my first attempt at knitting with colour.  The book is a good one with lots of interesting patterns.  The only thing is that it was lacking in instructions and pictures on how to do some of the skills.  I had to use the good-ol internet to learn how to intarsia.  This is deffinately not a beginner book.  I would say intermediate or for the beginner that wants a challenge (again, I am the latter).