With over 650 practical drawings, this handbook offers step-by-step instructions in all the techniques a knitter needs to know. It includes information for every stage, from casting on to adding the finishing touches, and also advises on what to do when things go wrong.

Briefly traces the history of knitting, discusses yarns, tools, and basic techniques, and tells how to design, make, finish, and care for knitware.

Simple and dynamic, this technique has been the rage among European knitters for some time. This method provides colour and pattern intrigue for sweaters, afghans and projects of all kinds. Ideal for take-along knitting, as pieces are worked in small squares.

Shadow knitting uses a simple technique of alternating rows of dark and light yarn to produce a subtle patterning that appears and disappears depending on the angle from which it's viewed. This book uncovers the mysteries of this technique, and includes step-by-step instructions on how to create your own designs.

This primer uses clear, step-by-step instructions to teach the basics of knitting. Beginners will learn to master the techniques that are needed before starting a project and learn which choices result in successful garments. A natural progression of skills is taught, and each skill is punctuated by a knitting project, enabling first-time knitters to create simple scarves and sweaters. Patterns ..

Both a celebration of knitting and a book for practical information, this book is a collection of advice for the knitter. It examines essential truisms of knitting, with warnings, realities, and fantasies about the act of knitting and the people who do it. It includes information on everything from yarn needles, gauge, and knitting bag, and more.

If you completed a sweater only to find the buttonholes gape, ribbings flare, or seams pucker, this book is for you. It offers clear illustrated directions for dozens of knitting techniques including cast ons, bind offs, increases, decreases, buttonholes and more.

From needle sizes and yarn weights to dropped stitches, tight ribbing, chart reading and curling edges, this reference provides on-hand advice. It is written in a Q&A format.

From casting on and understanding patterns to creating intricate stitches and edgings, this book covers aspects of yarns, needles and knitting stitches. It explains over 85 stitches, with 250 illustrations for basic and advanced techniques.

Presents modular techniques for making wonderful garments and accessories. Step-by-step photographs demonstrate the way to knit two-dimensional shapes, and methods of joining them to form three-dimensional garments. This work includes ten projects with suggested variations and alternative palettes, and advice on how to create your own designs.

Simple approaches to choosing, using and wearing colour move knitters from being intimidated by the choices to being excited by possbilities.

Heirlooms are a family's link from past to present, a legacy for the future, and the lace knitting of the Shetland Isles has created much treasured family knitwear. This book is for both the everyday and expert knitter, and intended as an instructive guide and an overview of Shetland lace.

Crafted with the precision of a Fair Isle garment, informed by accounts from the knitters themselves, and set firmly within it's historical and sociological roots, this book takes you to the heart of this knitting tradition. It presents the history of Fair Isle knitting and an examination of the style's techniques.

Intended for beginners, this work is a course in modular knitting (a traditional technique) with its themed tutorials (each with practice exercises, as well as instructions and charts) and 29 knitting projects.

A complete course in knitting, this title takes you lesson-by-lesson through the stitches and techniques, from casting on the first stitch to creating an intricate Fair Isle cardigan. It contains 15 specially designed projects.

Socks are one of the most popular projects among experienced knitters, yet they can mystify beginning knitters. Socks require techniques not typically used in simple projects such as scarves and hats, but these techniques are as easy to learn. In fact, you can knit your very own socks, and this work shows you how.

Introduces the luscious lace of yesteryear to the knitters of today.

Picking up where book 1 left off, this primer on the purl stitch uses clear, step by step photographs to guide the beginner knitters through unique knitting projects . A natural progression of skills is taught and each skill is punctuated by a knitting photo. each skill