 | Knitter's Handbook : A Comprehensive Guide to the Principles and Techniques of Handknitting by Montse Stanley
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.47 Stanley's Handbook is where the best & clearest instructions & illustrations for more advanced issues in knitting can be found.
Need a stretchy(er) cast on or bind off?
Looking for a better way to close the toe of a sock, or make a comfortable thumb? Lots of ways to make a button hole or pocket?
This is the book.
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 | Knitting for Anarchists by Anna Zilboorg
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $15.75 What makes knitting work (or not.) This is the Gray's Anatomy of knitting.
Why most of the RULES don't matter if you understand how the yarn & needles make stitches.
What it means when you say "do what works", & what you get if you experiment!
If front/back, left/right, up/down and over/under are problems for you, read this.
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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: $15.78 Ref -Any basic style of cardigan/pullover, choose child or adult purportions, any guage/weight of yarn, for any sized person.
Calculations go up to 2X-3X, but you can use the regularity of her tables to increase/decrease to other sizes.
The ultimate in NOT letting others choose your yarn, colors, styles, or size.
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 | Confessions of a Knitting Heretic by Annie Modesitt
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $13.97 Like Zilboorg, Modesitt has taken on the Knitting Police to say that however you knit is how you should knit so long as you get the results you are after.
Modesitt is specifically campaigning for "combination knitting," & she feels so strongly, she self-published!
The value is in using her excellent diagrams & descriptions to break down knitting & self-correct from any direction.
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 | A Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker
Buy new: $30.00 / Used from: $23.00 Ref. Stitch Library
This is 1 of 4 stitch pattern books by Barbara Walker, and even though they are a little $$ as a set & worth investing in because of the wealth of textures, designs, and ideas contained in them.
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 | A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker
Buy new: $30.00 / Used from: $20.00 #2 in Walker's Stitch Library
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 | Charted Knitting Designs: A Third Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker
Buy new: $30.00 / Used from: $23.99 #3 in Walker's Stitch Library
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 | A Fourth Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker
Buy new: $30.00 / Used from: $26.88 4th and final book in Barbara Walker's Stitch Library
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 | Knitting from the Top by Barbara G. Walker
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $15.46 Barbara Walker strikes again -- with the first (and best) of the top-down sweater books.
All the top-down patterns solve the problems presented by both dyslexia and some of the left-handed issues as well.
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 | Knitting Sweaters from the Top Down: Fabulous Seamless Patterns to Suit Your Style by Cathy Carron
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.27 Knitting in the round is the answer to dyslexic's problems with knitting. Knit from the top down on circular needles solves back/front, right-side/ wrong-side problems.
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 | Children's Sweaters & Hats Knitting Seamless Raglan Top Down: Step by Step Patterns & Photos (Richdesigns)
Buy used from: $14.89 If it says seamless or top-down, it's probably well suited for dyslexic knitters. See other book comments for more info on this phenomenon.
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 | Adult Sweaters : Knitting Seamless Raglan Top Down (Richdesigns) by Mary Rich Goodwin
Buy used from: $44.97 As with the pattern book for children's sweaters, this is one of the books that can offer dyslexics nifty ideas for making their knitting life as easy as possible. See other book comments for details on top-down and seamless sweater knitting.
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 | Socks for Sandals and Clogs
Buy used from: $18.89 Zilboorg's FREE SOLE socks make it possilbe to wear socks to to threads on the sole-- and then just unstitch the sole and make a new one!
Zilboorg mismatches every rule you've ever heard about sock knitting.
Take that! Knitting Police!
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 | Knitting Over The Edge: Unique Ribs, Cords, Appliques, Colors, Nouveau by Nicky Epstein
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $14.00 One of the many Epstein
"edges" books. Variety, choices, possibilities, and an easy way to never do the same thing twice.
See other Epstein items in this lest for further discussion.
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 | Knitting on the Edge: Ribs, Ruffles, Lace, Fringes, Floral, Points & Picots: The Essential Collection of 350 Decorative Borders by Nicky Epstein
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $12.50 Another Epstein
"edges" book.
See other Epstein items in this lest for further discussion.
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 | Knitting Beyond the Edge: Cuffs and Collars*Necklines*Hems*Closures - The Essential Collection of Decorative Finishes by Nicky Epstein
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $12.50 Ref -1 of Epstein's many "edges" books offers VARIETY galore (great for mis-matchers who can't do anything the same way twice!)
Pages of different ways to make a sweater (or anything else) unique.
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 | Nicky Epstein's Knitted Embellishments: 350 Appliques, Borders, Cords, and More! by Nicky Epstein
Buy new: $21.09 / Used from: $14.98 Another Epstein book, this one offers a wide variety of embelishments you can add to your knitted garments (and other things) to make them extra special and one-of-a-kind.
See other Epstein items in this lest for further discussion.
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 | The Best of Vogue Knitting Magazine: 25 Years of Articles, Techniques, and Expert Advice by Vogue Knitting Magazine
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $10.00 With 25 years of issues of Vogue's Knittig Magazine to draw on, the "best of" is an excellent selection of tips, hints, special techniques, and creative ideas.
One of the most readible knitting books ever published.
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 | Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book by Vogue Knitting Magazine Editors
Buy new: $24.53 / Used from: $18.66 Considered by many to be the absolute best reference for knitters.
A lot of plain vanilla here, and some of the illustrations are confusing if you're dyslexic. All in all, it's a very heavy, awkward, hardbound book that doesn't get into any of the tough quesitons.
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 | Knitting Without Tears: Basic Techniques and Easy-to-Follow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizes by Elizabeth Zimmermann
Buy new: $12.20 / Used from: $7.98 Considered by many to be the Grand Dame of modern knitting, the late Zimmermann's best ideas about knitting seem to be in this conversational book. It's like meeting your Great Aunt to talk about what really matters in life.
Be prepared, however when approaching any EZ book or DVD --she's a stickler "doing it right."
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 | A Knitting Glossary
Buy new: $35.99 Couldn't live without EZ on DVD. Watching her knit --even though she goes quite fast sometimes, is like having a great teacher on call.
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 | Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop
Buy new: $42.99 Like the Knitting Glossery DVD -- a must have for those of us confused by wordy, awkward written directions. Zimmerman is friendly and no-nonsense about her knitting.
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 | Knit Socks! by Betsy McCarthy
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.97 I include this book because of 1 thing only. When I first learned to make socks, this is the ONLY book that explained the "Kitchner Stitch" closure for the toe in a way I could understand. (Kitchner is also useful for many other things....)
I still pull it out when I get confused. -- and the sock ideas are cute, too.
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