Vogue Knitting

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!

With more than 800 knitting patterns for everything from knit and purl to cables and colorwork, this is the most comprehensive knitting stitch dictionary ever published Special features: - 800 Stitch Patterns: Chevrons, bobbles, herringbone, braids, brioche, ribs, mosaic, entrelac, eyelet, and so much more. - Includes Charts and Written Instructions: Every pattern is represented charted as well as in text, with a full-color photo of the motif. - A Great Reference for All Skill Levels: With so many stitches to choose from, you are guaranteed to find patterns that meet you where you are experience wise. - An Impressive Package: It's the perfect gift for yourself or the knitter in your life. This comprehensive dictionary of more than 800 stitches is a treasure trove of knit and purl textures, cables, lace, colorwork, edgings, and other combinations. Pulled from knitwear designs that appeared in Vogue Knitting magazine, these stitches come from a range of top designers and are as unique as their creators. You can use the patterns as written or tweak them, combine stitches for beautiful effects, and find inspiration to design your own stitches, garments, and accessories. The patterns feature both text and chart instructions whenever possible to accommodate every learning style. No matter your skill level as a knitter, Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Stitch Dictionary will be an endless source of creativity and inspiration.