Rowan's Greatest Knits: A 30-year Retrospective Collection Hardcover – 7 Sept. 2009

Item took a while to arrive, was expected, no particular problems

The best of the most beautiful knitting patterns. The garments are so classical, they will never go out of fashion. The book seems new: not a mark on it.

This book does not include directions for all of the items, only some of them. The one sweater I particularly liked did not have instructions and I would have had to spend another 16BP to buy the magazine it was originally featured in. This was irritating.

Beautiful book with plenty but not all patterns in. Wish they'd published them all! Hours and hours of creative pleasure in here, such beautiful items. Well worth it.

I have all the magazines but it's always good to have more - the newer versions are lovely and give an idea of how to interpret older patterns in current yarns.

Another great book from Rowan with lots of designs for all tastes, some from each decade. Interesting to see the young Kate Moss modelling some of them.

It was a gift - received well by the recipient who knits

There is no doubt this is a beautiful book with some lovely patterns. However, when I took the Donatello pattern into my local stockist I was told they no longer produce Kidsilk Aura. The jumper was made of stripes of different shades and I felt it was important to get the shades right in order for it to work. I came away empty handed and the book is now just a book of lovely pictures.