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Fearless Knitting Workbook: The Step-by-Step Guide to Knitting Confidence
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Price: $24.95
Item #:
09KN13
ISBN: 978-1-59668-149-1
200 pages
Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 9
Be fearless and knit with confidence!
A workbook for the hands and minds of knitters, the Fearless Knitting Workbook will:
- Develop your skills and deepen your understanding of how yarn becomes fabric
- Lead you over common obstacles that makes knitting seem difficult through gentle, targeted exercises and extensive explanations broken down into layman's terms
- Give you the confidence to fearlessly approach any knitting pattern you might otherwise think was beyond your abilities and gain a sense of mastery to knit any commercial pattern you wish
- And more!
Fearless Knitting Workbook offers classically designed swatch exercises in specific technical areas, such as knit and purl patterns, cables, shaping, and lace. By introducing the basic stitch movements, vocabulary, charts, and knitting math for each exercise, you are more likely to be successful. Plus, the exercise swatches you will create with this workbook can be used as washcloths or combined to create pillow covers, throws, or scarves.
Throughout Fearless Knitting Workbook, the key emphasis is on teaching you how to read your knitting as well as the written instructions, and on explaining why things are done the way they are done in successful knitting. At the same time, the book encourages you to try your hand at any pattern your hands desire, regardless of your skill level.
Introduction
How to use this book
What makes a project "hard"?
General Advice
Fiber and yarn
Stitch Mount
Tools
Skill building Lessons/Projects
Knit-and-Purl Patterns
Checkerboard Square
Diamond Peaks Square
Shell Square
You're Out of Order! Cables and Crossed Stitches
Basic Cable
Expanded Basic Cable
Honeycomb
Twisted Stitches Trellis
For Extra Credit: Multiple cables of different sizes
Get in Shape! Basic shaping techniques
Garter stitch square knit on the diagonal
Full-fashioned stockinette stitch square knit on the diagonal
Mitered square
Oval mats in different sizes
For Extra Credit: Bunny and Ducky shaped washcloths
Intentional Holes: Openwork and lace
Lace worked every other row, yarnovers aligned vertically
Lace worked every other row, yarnovers arranged diagonally
Multiple lace patterns in a row; constant stitch count
Varying number of stitches in rows
For Extra Credit: Lace worked stitches on every row.
Finishing Touches for Your Projects
Glossary and List of Abbreviations and Symbols
Sources for Supplies
Index
About the author: Jennifer E. Seiffert has been a knitter for over 45 years, and has taught the advanced sweater class for her local yarn shop for several years. For her “day job,” she writes technical specifications and documentations for computer software for cancer statistics applications and creates online help systems. She also trains users of these software applications throughout the country and has edited complex book-length publications with multiple authors. Fearless Knitting Workbook is her first book. She lives in Warsaw, Indiana.
'Organized and precise, this book is a fantastic, systematic way to beef up your knitting skills.'--Knitty.com