Author: Martingale

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 152

Release Date: 20-01-2009

Details: Product Description Now in paperback, this must-have resource offers all the knitting know-how you'll ever need! With over 1,000 close-up photographs featuring real hands holding real yarn and needles, there's no easier way to learn! Walk from beginner's basics through gorgeous Aran, Fair Isle, entrelac, and intarsia knitting with easy-to-understand text and colorful photos Add an astounding array of embellishments to your projects with embroidery, beading, and much more Fix mistakes, care for garments, and find answers to almost any knitting question--this book simplifies it all Review A to Z of Knitting: The Ultimate Guide for the Beginner to Advanced Knitter by Martingale & Company is a thorough but standard learn-to-knit book. It starts at the beginning -- literally, opening with a history of knitting. From there, the book walks you through the things you need to learn before you cast on: needles, yarn fibers and textures, sundry tools and accessories, abbreviations and how to read patterns and charts. It even tells you different ways to hold the yarns and needles. I am not fond of the cast on section. It begins by stating that all cast ons must begin with a slipknot, which is not true. The most commonly used cast on, the long-tail method, uses no knot, and is not taught in this book. However, the rest of the instructions are tops. Other tutorials include: basic knit and purl stitches, increases, decreases, ribbing, buttonholes, bobbles, cables, adding beads and sequins, fair isle, entralac, short rows, lace, looped knitting, knitting in the round, embroidery and decorative stitching, multiple methods of correcting mistakes, grafting and seaming, blocking, fringe and tassel, pom-poms, and caring for your knit garments. The photographs are clear and easy to follow and all in color. You would be surprised at how many knitting books only have sketches or black and white photos. Each technique also comes with a photo of a finished swatch, so you know what it is supposed to look like. --Alyse Wax, Knit Picks, Blogcritics Magazine

Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches

Languages: English