Review   KB - October 18, 2008
"Strip & Knit with Style!...take your knitting to a whole new place with these clever projects, each one made with strips of fabric. Start with surprising fabrics—cotton, rayon, linen, hemp, silk, wool, polyester, even lace, faux fur, polar fleece! Then start knitting, following the simple directions to make sixteen sophisticated projects. Add paint, buttons, feathers, and more to make unique garments (and home accessories) that mean you’ll never have to strip again..."

Review By: Marjorie Colletta,   BellaOnline - December 1, 2008
"Strip and Knit with Style by Mark Hordyszynski, published by C&T Publishing, is a book that marries knitting and woven fabrics. Hordyszynski uses fabric to create strips and then proceeds to knit with them. He talks about the properties of different fabric materials; silk, wool, cotton and man-made. Then he proceeds to discuss how to treat fabric by painting, dyeing or discharging (which is when you actually remove the color from the fabric). From there is a discussion of how to cut or tear your fabric into strips, join the strips together, basics of how to knit and then finally how to knit with the strips acknowledging their specific properties (will they ravel or not for example). The results are often lovely and always interesting...The book has sixteen different projects and they may inspire you to greatness or at least a new burst of creativity. Hordyszynski includes pillows, scarfs, a simple tank top, and more. The preponderance of pillows in the book would allow you to experiment with a small project to see if you even like it and you have the opportunity to purchase new gadgets to make cutting the fabric easy. They all follow the basic steps he has laid out and if this is your cup of tea you will find it well organized and fun. But this book is definitely for the specialist, the person who likes to knit, but also loves to work with fabric and is in need of a challenge or something different..."

Review By: Deb Boyken,   The Daily Knitter - January 1, 2009
"The first thing I have to tell you is that I’m a traditionalist at heart. I appreciate innovative techniques, they’re not always something that suits my personal taste. And, yes, this book is one of those innovative non-traditional kinds of books … but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad book. In fact, I thought the technique section was fascinating, just because it was something I’d never really thought of doing. I’m getting ahead of myself. This book, despite its title, is not about knitting in the nude. No, no. (Even the Amazon description says, “No, not that kind of stripping. Strips of fabric! Get your mind out of the gutter….”) The book is all about knitting–not with yarn–but with strips of fabric...The beginning, how-to section of the book explains the process–selecting your fabrics, and the difference between types of fibers, as well as woven vs. knitted fabrics. There is a discussion on things you can do TO the fabric to make it more interesting (paint, bleach, dye–stuff like that). And then there is the explanation of how you go from sheets of fabric to yarn–or, at least, long, thin, continuous strips that act like yarn. I thought this whole section was fascinating. I tend to think of fabric as fabric, and yarn as yarn, not as interchangeable entities. Yarn can be turned into fabric, true, but … the other way around? Mind-boggling. Yet, here it is. The descriptions are clear and the explanations seem thorough–along with cautionary notes about taking care when using things like bleach and x-acto knives...Okay, so then … the projects. Clever. Creative..."