750 Knitting Stitches is both a stitch guide and a how-to knit primer, all in one volume. You get all the information needed to get started, including how to choose yarn and needles, read patterns, work basic stitches, how to check gauge, increase and decrease, join pieces and finish projects and care for your knitted
750 Knitting Stitches is both a stitch guide and a how-to knit primer, all in one volume. You get all the information needed to get started, including how to choose yarn and needles, read patterns, work basic stitches, how to check gauge, increase and decrease, join pieces and finish projects and care for your knitted items.
The comprehensive pattern library includes 750 knitting stitches, from simple to ornate, including knit and purl patterns, basic and complex cables, Fair Isles and intarsia designs, and rib and edging patterns. Each is fully explained with instructions and accompanied by a full-color photo of a sample knitted swatch. All swatches are worked in updated yarns, beautifully photographed and accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions.
Based on The Harmony Guides, which have been a longstanding and valued reference for handcrafters for more than thirty years, with over half a million worldwide sales, this edition is updated with eye-catching photography and innovative new stitches, but also never forgetting the heritage of the guides.
With 750 Knitting Stiches you can knit, purl, cable and yarn over your way through 750 stitches to create any number of beautiful pieces. This really will be the only stitch guide and reference title needed on any knitter’s bookshelves.
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Reprint of the new Harmony Guides I didn’t even think to check this book against other stitch dictionaries before purchasing because I have no other dictionaries from this publisher. Turns out that this is a reprint of the new Harmony Guides from Interweave Press. I’m not sure what the story is here, or why St. Martin’s (Pavilion) is publishing this one, but there it is. The pictures have been color corrected differently and it’s in a different binding. Otherwise, it is the same. As one other reviewer noted, there are still no…
Reprint…. Nothing New. Don’t Bother… If you do not already have the “new Harmony Guides” from Interweave Press (edited by Erika Knight) this book is for you: all volumes are republished here. If, however, you shelled out nearly a hundred bucks for all of the revised Harmony Guides, you will not be getting anything new here. A few stitches have been given new names for this book, but everything here is identical to the Harmony Guides, and not the old Guides! There still are NO charts, except for the cable stitches, same as…
This is a very good book. Exhaustive This is a very good book. Exhaustive, as you would expect from the title. It’s big and heavy. Since I paid about $14 for the book, I think it’s a great bargain.These are the categories of stitch patterns: Knit and purl stitches (52 pages; 200 stitch patterns), cable and Aran stitches (52 pages; 134 stitch patterns), lace and eyelet stitches (50 pages; 150 stitch patterns), colorwork stitches (52 pages; 146 stitch patterns), & edgings & trims (50 pages; 132 stitch patterns)…