 | Hand-Manipulated Stitches for Machine Knitters by Susan Guagliumi
Buy used from: $23.99 Excellent reference, whether you use the ISM, USM (the ISM with upgrades, essentially) or ANY other knitting machine. A companion video is also available.
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 | The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes & Gauges by Ann Budd
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $15.99 For machine or hand knitters. Excellent pattern ideas and best of all--it does the math for you! If you've already done the sweaters in the ISM/USM leaflets/books--try this!
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 | The Ultimate Sweater Machine Row Counter
Buy new: $29.99 This works as-is for the USM and fashion knitter but requires a quick-fix add-on for the older ISM. Just make a trip-spring from light guage wire--several online knitter's websites can show you how.
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 | The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes & Gauges (Interweave) by Ann Budd
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.46 Excellent guide for ALL knitters/designers. The percentage method works! Try it whether you knit by machine or hand. There is a companion book for sweaters only also available.
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 | Knitting Tips & Trade Secrets: Clever Solutions for Better Hand Knitting, Machine Knitting, and Crocheting (Threads On) by Threads Editors
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.99 Great ideas for all knitters, but a nice section on machine knitting tips and tricks.
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 | The Tap Dancing Lizard: 337 Fanciful Charts for the Adventurous Knitter by Catherine Cartwright-Jones
Buy used from: $10.00 One of the oldest, and best, graphed chart books around for any crafter or needleworker. If you can find it--buy it! Use it to try out intarsia for the first time.
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 | Creative Machine Knitting by Ruth Lee
Buy used from: $9.99 Buy this book! Try something new. Elevate your art. Branch out --and up--from those beginner ISM/USM leaflets and projects
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 | Machine Knitting by Injoo Kim
Buy new: $41.55 / Used from: $54.46 if you cannot find Susan Guagliumi's Hand Manipulated Stitches book, try this. Similar, IMHO. Useful to both electronic and manual hobby machine users, just as Susan's book is.
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 | Enchanted Knitting: Charted Motifs for Hand and Machine Knitting by Catherine Cartwright-Jones; Roy Jones
Buy used from: $13.73 Charts and graphs easy enough to follow for even the beginner picture or intarsia. Great for crocheters and knitters who love duplicate stitch designs for their sweaters and afghans, too.
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 | The Knitters Book of Finishing Techniques by Nancie M. Wiseman
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.99 Great for those of us who like to add crochet, sewn and fashionable fit to our projects. Excellent reference.
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