350+ knitting tips, techniques, and trade secrets
Book - 2017
Give a stylish finish to your knitted garments and accessories with this essential compendium of knitting know-how. Over 350 tips, techniques, and secrets are explained and illustrated with clear step-by-step photographs and diagrams. Discover how to read patterns and charts, choose color and yarns, mix and match stitch patterns, and adapt designs for the perfect fit. All kinds of stitches abound, from stockinette stitch and ribbing, to lace, Fair Isle, cables, and intarsia work. This book explains all the techniques you'll need in the order you'll need them, from casting on and joining in yarns, to shaping, and adding buttonholes, pockets, and embellishments. Plus, "Try It" and "Fix It" panels suggest ways of ...practicing and developing new skills and avoiding or correcting common knitting errors. - Amazon.com.
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
St. Martin's Griffin
2017.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
- ISBN
- 9781250125125
- Introduction
- About this book
- Chapter 1. Equipment and materials
- Knitting needles
- Additional equipment
- Which yarn?
- Buying yarn
- Chapter 2. Patterns and charts
- Following a knitting pattern
- Measuring your gauge
- Understanding charts and symbols
- Selecting the right size
- Chapter 3. Design
- Choosing colors
- All about drape
- Texture
- Flattering your body shape
- Adapting knitting patterns
- Achieving perfect fit
- Basic design principles
- Schematics and graphs
- Putting it all together
- Chapter 4. Basic techniques
- Preparing yarn
- Casting on
- Holding the yarn and needles
- Working knit stitch
- Working purl stitch
- Working basic knit and purl stitch patterns
- Binding off
- Fixing mistakes
- Joining yarns
- Striped patterns
- Increasing
- Decreasing
- Chapter 5. Advanced techniques
- Selvages
- Picking up stitches
- Ribs, hems, and other borders
- Adding bands and borders
- Armholes and sleeve shapes
- Necklines, neckbands, and collars
- Pockets
- Making buttonholes
- Beautiful buttons
- Fastenings
- Shoulder pads
- Shaping with vertical darts
- Short-row shaping
- Lace and openwork stitches
- Cables and twists
- Knots and bobbles
- Loops, leaves, and bells
- Edgings
- Chevron patterns
- Patchwork squares
- Entrelac
- Frills and flutes
- Chapter 6. Knitting in the round
- Circular knitting
- Stitch patterns for circular knitting
- Circular knitted shapes
- Mittens and gloves
- Socks
- Chapter 7. Creative techniques
- Hand dyeing
- Felting
- Combining yarns for texture
- Slip-stitch patterns
- Fair Isle knitting
- Intarsia
- Counted-stitch embroidery
- Freestyle embroidery
- Knitting with beads and sequins
- Pompoms, tassels, fringes, and cords
- Flower trims
- Crochet edgings
- Chapter 8. Assembly
- Stitching the seams
- Pressing and blocking
- Aftercare
- Glossary
- Common abbreviations and symbols
- Crochet hook sizes
- Index
- Credits
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