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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.43042
EAN num: 9780762104055
ISBN number: 0762104058
Label: Readers Digest
Manufacturer: Readers Digest
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: 2003-06
Publishing house: Readers Digest
Release Date: May 12, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 73153
Studio: Readers Digest
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Product Description:
An essential guide for all knitters and crocheters-the most extensive, varied, and authoritative collection of stitches ever brought together. Comprehensive and uniquely organized by stitch texture, this hands-on guide features detailed step-by-step instructions and vivid photographs of over 900 individual stitches.
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What is important for the serious knitter is to know that this stitch book is a rehash of the older Harmony knit and crochet stitch books. One of my books had 440 stitch patterns alone. So with just 900 stitches about half of which are for knitting and the other for crochet, you are not getting the total of all the Harmony books together. However, each stitch has a helpful name to it and they are grouped into like categories. The colour pictures are tiny and there are no charts but there are good top subtitles on each page and also at the sides. The index is also a useful feature and the book looks sturdy with good print and binding. The aran stitches and fair isle stitches are lacking from this edition. There was one Harmony book just on those stitches so worth hunting around for that one to supplement this.
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The only problem with this book is deciding on which great stitch to try first.
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I use this book constantly, as I love to create my own scarves and hats with various fancy stitches, and it's fun to find new ones in this book. It's a pretty good collection, at least for an advanced beginner like myself. There is also a fair amount of instruction at the beginning of the book, and it has helped me figure out such intimidating things as psso and sl1 that scare new knitters! I don't crochet, so I can't really comment on that part of the book, which is about half of it.
However, as I am getting a little more experienced, I am finding a few amount of mistakes in the pages of this book. I tried one stitch pattern and found it actually made the pattern shown in the picture for the pattern subsequent to it. Another time, a pattern that clearly had 23 stitches in every other row all of a sudden had the last two rows saying to K1, P11, K1. I am pretty sure it meant the last part should be K11, but I felt quite upset that I worked my way through the very first 14 rows only to be unsure what to do.
I also find the organization a bit strange. There are little tiny sections like mesh knitting, and bigger sections like small scale lace patterns and then bigger scale lace patterns and then motif knitting...and they all seem to blend together to me.
I wish also there was a little more commentary on the stitches. I'd love a little guidance as to what kind of project each one might be good for, or even a chatty little comment like "a real favorite for new knitters" or something like that.
Overall, though, I am very glad I have this book. The pictures are in color, the pages are easy on the eyes and it's BIG, with a lot collected together for the money!
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I use this book for knitting all the time, and although I do not crochet, I even look through the back quite often just for inspiration. This was my very first knitting book and I find myself returning to it whenever I want to wing it or spice up a plain project.
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I don't knit - but my wife does. She has had this book on an endlessly renewed loan form the local library for over a year. I have searched every book shop -real and virtual in Australia - many listed it - none stocked it - Amazon had it.
It HAS to be an indespensible guide to knitters everywhere - grab it while it is in stock!!
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