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.

Handknitted socks are a luxury everyone should experience. Here are 18 sock patterns inspired by a host of folk knitting traditions.

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.

With 40 stylish patterns, this guide aims to show young knitters how to get started, how to make it fun and how to make the hip clothes they want. Step-by-step instructions illustrate every technique.

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.

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.

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.

A fully revised edition of the world's most widely used drawing instruction book.

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 ..

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

Compiled by Vogue's acclaimed knitwear designer and teacher, this collection of 350 knitted edgings, borders and trims, runs the gamut of styles and offers something for all tastes, all drawn from the 'Vogue Knitting' archives.

Shares more than 150 one-of-a-kind embellishments for various types of garment edging. This work provides ideas that are simple but elegant, and also complex and extraordinary. It includes a bell-sleeve jacket with a Celtic knot closure, a stylish cable-hooded wrap that's textured with unusual patterns and bobbles, and more.

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.

This volume demonstrates the techniques for the three-dimensional manipulation of fabric. It categorizes the techniques showing how they are related, giving examples of both modern and traditional variations. The techniques show how to reconstruct a flat piece of cloth using only a threaded needle.

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Knitting Techniques is the 'how to' of knitting offering professional tips and working methods. Colour photographs of the finished patterns and black and white charts are supplied where appropriate.