Product Description

Have you always wanted to knit? Know the basics, but you’re looking to stretch your knitting skills? Knitting Patterns For Dummies is chock-full of simple instructions and easy-to-follow patterns to help you create a wide range of classic, beautiful knits for the whole family, from clothing to household items to gift ideas. This fun, friendly guide gives you scores of new ways to have fun with needles and yarn, with great projects such as basic ponchos and pullovers, felted bags and slippers, cabled sweaters, and home and baby accessories, to name a few. You get step-by-step instructions for all the patterns in the book, along with line drawings and 8 pages of full-color photos to guide you. And, with the variations added at the end of many of the patterns, you’ll have almost 100 projects to choose from! You’ll discover how to:

• Select the right yarn and needles
• Decipher knitting lingo
• Measure your gauge, read a pattern, and understand garment sizing
• Work with common stitches, such as the stockinette, garter seed, box, and half linen
• Handle ribbing, cabling, and knitting lace
• Work with patterns with rectangles, circles, and triangles
• Use colorful stitches such as the Stripes, Fair Isle, and Mosaic
• Join shapes together in your design
• Create different textures and add color throughout a piece or just as accents

You’ll also find ten things you can knit with that aren’t yarn or needles, as well as plenty of tips for caring for your knits once they’re complete. From beanies to bags to blankets, Knitting Patterns For Dummies has it all—everything you need to pick up your sticks and get creative right away!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99555 in Books
• Brand: WILEY PUBLISHING
• Published on: 2007-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.20" h x 7.46" w x .78" l, 1.27 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 344 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470045565
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
Knit designs from head to toe and beyond

From sweaters and slippers to pillows and purses — create classic, beautiful knits with ease

Looking for great knitting projects? This fun, friendly guide is chock-full of simple instructions and easy-to-follow patterns to help you create a wide range of knitted items for the whole family, from clothing and accessories to household items and gift ideas. Plus, you get full-color photos and fantastic projects perfect for beginners or those who want to stretch their knitting skills!

Discover how to 

• Choose the right yarn and needles

• Measure your gauge, read a pattern, and understand garment sizing

• Work with common stitches and pattern shapes

• Create different textures and add color

• Care for completed knits

About the Author
Kristi Porter is an author, designer, technical editor, and teacher. In addition to authoring Knitting for Dogs, her work has been featured in the Knitgrrl series, the Big Girl Knits series, No Sheep For You, and Knit Wit. She is a frequent contributor to Knitty.com and has been a part of that online magazine since its start in 2002.
Kristi doesn’t remember learning to knit as a child, but she captured the basics and an enthusiasm for the craft from her mother, her aunt, and her grandmother. She began her first projects as a designer and a knitter, realizing only later that not everyone designed their own patterns. Though her first attempts were boxy and oversized (thank goodness it was the ’80s!), once she grasped the importance of gauge, she was on her way to creating wearable designs. She began approaching the craft in a serious way in the late ’90s and learned how to read and write patterns in order to share her designs with others.
As a knitting instructor, Kristi teaches students at all levels and ages. Getting feedback about what knitters want to knit, what they enjoy, and what they find difficult has given her a strong sense of what knitters need to know. She delights in helping her students create their own patterns to suit their own needs and senses of fashion.

Customer Reviews

Fun, quirky and very informative
One of the many things that I LOVE about this book is that while it is great for beginners - with many good graphics and descriptions of stitches and finishing etc - it is absolutely fantastic for those of us who aspire to get past a rigid pattern and want to try and create our own designs. It is very clearly thought out. Instructions, hints and tips aplenty. It genuinely does have something for everybody. What's more it's written in a fun and quirky way. Who'd have thought about using liquorice as a yarn ;-) As I say "I love it!"Knitting Patterns For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))

A handful of color plates and an assortment of black-and-white diagrams illustrate this step-by-step guide
Knitwear designer Kristi Porter presents Knitting Patterns for Dummies, a worthy addition to the exemplary "For Dummies" series of guides designed to make their subject matter thoroughly accessible to beginners. Chapters address how to choose the right yarn and needles, common stitches and pattern shapes, how to measure one's gauge, read a pattern, and understand garment sizing, proper care of completed knitted creations, and much more. A handful of color plates and an assortment of black-and-white diagrams illustrate this step-by-step guide, enthusiastically recommended as a top-notch self-teaching resource.

Knitting Patterns for Dummies
I found this book to be very useful in reviewing and learning new knitting stitches. The directions were easy to follow and were accompanied with illustrations. I recommend this book for beginners as well as those who have not knitted in a few years and are in need of a refresher course. The patterns given have easy to follow directions which incorporate many different stitches to give practice.