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"If you long to knit stunning fair isle jumpers and brightly colored blankets for your home this is the perfect book. Learn all the techniques for how to start knitting with color and create really desirable projects as you learn. Choose from brightly colored stripy socks and work your way up to a patterned beanie hat and even a stunning sweater with a colorwork yoke. Even if you can only knit and purl--with this book you'll be making gorgeous colorwork...
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The author of Yarn Harlot returns with more hilarious personal stories about all the ups and downs of being a knitter.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a. the Yarn Harlot) returns to pen another hilarious, insightful, and poignant collection of essays surrounding her favorite topics: knitting, knitters, and what happens when you get those two things anywhere near ordinary people. “Free-Range Knitters” shares stories of knitting horrors and triumphs...
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All across America, people are knitting for peace. In yarn shops and private homes, churches and synagogues, schools and even prisons, they meet on weekday evenings or weekend afternoons to knit afghans for refugees, mittens for the homeless, socks for soldiers, or preemie caps for AIDS babies. The tradition goes back as far as Martha Washington, who spearheaded knitting efforts for the soldiers of the Revolutionary War, and has seen a recent flourishing...
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"Slow Knitting introduced crafters to a process of more mindful making through five basic tenets: source carefully, make thoughtfully, think seasonally, experiment fearlessly, and explore openly. Now, this seasonal approach encourages knitters to delve deeper into those concepts, applying them to everyday making through a series of essays, projects, and patterns that explore the life of a knitter throughout the year. Organized similarly to a...
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An introduction to the wide world of knitting by way of making your own. hat Knitting is an excellent handcraft and something people love the world over. But for the crafting faint of heart, knitting can appear daunting; you need needles (but what size?), yarn (but what weight?), and a pattern (but what kind?). Very quickly, knitting becomes another language that's tricky to navigate and even trickier to master. Knit a Hat teaches you everything you...
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Whether you stitch up a pair of cute baby shoes, knit a clever cardigan, or upcycle adult sweaters into children's sweaters, Sweet & Simple Handmade by Melissa Wastney has something for all the little ones in your life. This how-to book features 25 adorable-and very practical-projects designed for babies and young children up to age 10. Inside you'll find reusable patterns, detailed instructions, and endless inspiration for garments, bags, quilts,...
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When you knit anything, you are creating fabric by making interlocking loops of yarn - and the knit and purl stitch are how you create those loops. These two stitches are the foundation of all knitting. Debbie teaches you the knit stitch and the purl stitch, in the English and Continental styles, which are different ways of holding the yarn.
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There's no better gift to give at the holidays than a cozy, oversized cowl. In this class, Anne Weil shows how to make a simple arm-knit cowl using nothing more than super-bulky yarn and your arms. She even shares a fun variation, perfect for the holidays - a bulky scarf with festive pompom adornments. In about an hour, you can whip up this luxe accessory for the ultimate in handmade gift-giving.
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Learn traditional cabling on this oversize scarf, with large needles and three strands of yarn held together. The scale of the scarf knits up quickly and allows you to really see what you're knitting. Jill teaches you how to cable to the front or back. The result is new knitting knowledge, as well as a sculptural scarf that can be a solid color, or ombre through different colors of yarn. Pattern included - a $6 value!
12) Cabled Afghan
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Over the course of 12 parts, knitting pro Edie Eckman takes you on a whirlwind adventure exploring the wide world of cables. In each class, you will learn new stitch patterns with a variety of twists and turns, and at the very end, you'll put all of the blocks together to make a gloriously textured, cozy afghan. Edie presents this afghan in one neutral shade, but you can use whatever colors float your boat for your own unique design.
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Learn how to make beautifully textured socks featuring a twisted rib stitch. These "faux" cable stitches are twisted without the use of a cable needle, and the ornate design runs along the cuff of the sock and down the instep of the foot. Edie will be with you every step, showing you how to work in the round using "Magic Loop," turn the heel flap, and finish the socks with a Kitchener stitch closure.
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For many knitters, the thought of setting down your needles and picking up a crochet hook is a daunting one. But once you learn how to wield a crochet hook, it can become an important skill to have in your knitting bag of tricks. Cal Patch teaches some of the most common ways that crochet can be used in combination with knitting -- to add a button band to a sweater, join seams, add length to a garment, create a decorative picot or scalloped edging,...
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All knitting begins with a cast-on, which creates the foundation stitches for any project. There are many different kinds of cast-ons, and some are more appropriate for different kinds of projects. Debbie teaches you her favorite four cast-ons: the long tail, knit, cable and provisional cast-on.
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In this class, knitwear designer Gudrun shares one of her patterns for making a beautiful Shetland-inspired lace shawl. Worked up in lace-weight yarn, this shawl has a slightly unusual construction--the decorative edge is worked as a strip in an eyelet lace pattern, and then the stitches are picked up along one long edge and worked in garter stitch. This garter-stitch section is shaped with short rows, adding rich texture and a lovely curve to this...
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Afraid to knit in the round? Jill's hat is knit sideways on two needles with one seam so you can start making hats on straight needles. This project uses short row shaping - a technique that sounds intimidating but really it's just a way to shape wedges by not knitting to the end of your knitting. Jill shows you how to create those wedges that you then graft together for a quick-to-knit hat that can be worked up on smaller or larger needles (with...