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Knitting For Dummies
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An illustrated guide showing how to create beautiful, timeless pieces, whether you're picking up needles for the first time or a seasoned pro looking for advanced patterns.
From scarves and sweaters to bags, pillows, and more, you'll find lots of projects for practising and perfecting your knitting skills in Knitting For Dummies, which includes an instructional online video demonstrating the knitting techniques step-by-step.
Experienced and novice crafters alike can benefit from the book's step-by-step instructions that explain knitting in plain English. For anyone new to knitting, this hands-on friendly guide shows you how to:
- Cast on, knit, purl, and bind off — the four basic skills needed to complete any knitting
- Decipher pattern instructions and charts
- Combine knit and purl stitches with increases and decreases for different effects
- Create different kinds of cables, lace, and more
- Read the language and graphics in knitting patterns and charts
- Increase and decrease stitches and use these techniques to shape a project and create design
It also shows you what to do if you drop a stitch or inadvertently add one. If you know the basics of knitting and want to expand your skills to include stitch patterns with more complexity, you've come to the right place:
- Combine stitch increases and decreases to create lacework
- Get familiar with Fair Isle patterns and simple intarsia motifs, which involve working in more than one colour in one row
- Practise with plenty of projects to perfect your advanced knitting techniques
- Learn to add interest with stripes
- Have fun with fulling and felting
- Make sweaters, from blocking and assembling your pieces to adding finishing touches like neckbands, edging, and buttonholes
Knitting For Dummies includes ten quick projects to make for gifts and exercises to "unkink" your neck and shoulders should you lose yourself for hours at a time in your craft! Finally, the book ends with a couple of appendices showing you more cool effects and a list of knitting software and helpful online resources. If you're itching to start stitching, grab this book to start crafting your knitted masterpiece today.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781119643203
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 November 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: For Dummies
Edition: 3rd edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 31.0mm
Width: 185.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 544g
Pages: 416
About the Author
Pam Allen is a knitwear designer and founder of Quince & Co.
Shannon Okey is an author and knitwear designer. Find her at knitgrrl.com.
Tracy L. Barr is a professional writer and editor.
Marlaina "Marly" Bird hosts her own YouTube channel, where she instructs viewers on knitting and crochet.
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