Super Stitches Knitting
Knitting Essentials Plus a Dictionary of more than 300 Stitch Patterns
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Publisher Description
A complete guide to more than 300 knitting stitches, shown in diagrams and photos
"Very super stitches...nothing more to say!" Stevie Wonder said it all for us. Although we do have a
few more words we’d like to get in here. Don’t be superstitious, because you can believe in Super
Stitches Knitting, the complete pocket guide to knitting stitches and a great how-to-knit guide.
Author Karen Hemingway presents full how-tos for all the essentials of knitting, including choosing
needles and yarn, casting on, binding off, increasing and decreasing, creating texture, working with
multiple colors, fixing mistakes, and finishing. Then Super Stitches Knitting turns to the stitch patterns—more than 300 of them, all fully explained in how-tos and full-color photos. Instructions and diagrams for each stitch, including knit and purl, vertical motifs, ribbing, borders, dimensional elements, cables, eyelet, lace, color knitting, and more, are shown on lefthand pages, and a photograph of the knitted result is on the right-hand page. This essential book, packed with super stitches, makes knocking on wood, throwing salt, and avoiding black cats completely unnecessary for knitters at every level from beginning to advanced.
Customer Reviews
Wrong patterns
I am not usually one to write a bad review, but in this case, I'm willing to make an exceptions.
Although the designs and the photos are beautiful, it is obvious that the person(s) who wrote/edited this book had never knitted the pieces themselves. Their shorthand for stitches are wrong, and the count is wrong. A pattern suggests "repeat from * ", but then you will end up with a yarn over (which, incidentally, is called YFW, or yarn forward, in this book). How are you supposed to continue with a yarn over at the end, with no stitches left to knit? And then, unless you are an experiences knitter, you will not realize that the pattern is totally wrong!
Save your money, buy another knitting book.