A to Z of Knitting: The Ultimate Guide for the Beginner to Advanced Knitter - Softcover

Martingale

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564779149 ISBN 13: 9781564779144

Publisher: Martingale, 2009

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

This talk was a homecoming of sorts for Sue Gardner, who began her career at CBC Radio in Fredericton before becoming one of the world's most influential media figures. When she arrived on campus in the fall of 2009, she was the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, a collaborative Internet project that revolutionized the sharing of information, including news. Before joining Wikimedia, Gardner spent a decade as a reporter and producer for CBC Radio, eventually guiding the development of the CBC's online news services. In the spring of 2014, she left Wikimedia to devote her time to other projects, particularly those related to maintaining an open and free Internet. In a rapidly changing media world, Sue Gardner never stands still.

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Martingale
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1564779149
• ISBN 13: 9781564779144
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152