Vogue Knitting : The Ultimate Quick Reference

The perfect pocket companion for knitters on the go of all skill levels, abridged from the best-selling Vogue Knitting: The Complete Knitting Book

Special features:

• Covers Everything You Need to Know When You Need to Know It: How to pick up a stitch you dropped five rows back; how to make a right-slanting decrease; how to change colors for vertical stripes, and so much more.
• An Incredible Visual Reference: Contains over 950 detailed photographs and illustrations, and with its special sewn binding, the pages stay open so you can knit and follow along at the same time.
• Convenient Take-Along Format: Just the right size to fit in a knitter’s bag, with a durable wipe-clean flexi-cover.
• Invaluable for Beginners and Beyond: Contains techniques and stitch patterns for knitters at every level of experience.
• Bonus! The cover includes its own built-in stitch gauge, ruler, and needle gauge.

 Knitting is not a stationary activity. It goes where we go. And so does Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Quick Reference. It is packed with step-by-step illustrations and photographs to answer your every knitting question when you need it answered. With its convenient small, slim size, it fits snugly into your knitting bag and its durable flexi-cover is resistant to wear and wipes clean.

This essential guide covers virtually every topic and technique, including:

• Cast-ons, increases, decreases, and bind-offs
• Colorwork techniques like brioche, intarsia, stranding, and entrelac
• Solutions to common knitting mistakes
• Cabling and lace
• Stitches for seaming, including mattress stitch, slip stitch crochet, and Kitchener stitch
• Chart symbols and abbreviations

 

Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Quick Reference will be your knitting coach and companion wherever your stitches take you!

Originally founded by Condé Nast in 1932, Vogue Knitting magazine, now published by Soho Publishing, is the most respected and recognizable fashion-knitting magazine in the world. The Vogue Knitting brand encompasses the magazine, knitting resource and pattern books, Vogue Knitting LIVE!, a series of consumer shows that attract more than 15,000 knitters annually, destination trips and cruises, and much more.