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Full Description
A complete beginner's guide to knitting, with 100 inspiring swatches to choose from and a stunning patchwork blanket project to pull all your skills together.
Fully illustrated and packed with inspiration, this comprehensive guide is suitable whether you're looking to learn the basics, build your skills, or complete a satisfying knitting project.
Starting with a thorough user guide, you'll learn essential techniques, from casting on and 10 basic stitches all worked into squares (including knit, purl, garter, stocking, moss) to understanding charts, tension, abbreviations, and even how to rescue a dropped stitch.
The book then dives into a curated collection of 90 knitted swatch patterns (33 to get you started and another 57 to take it further); from cables and colourwork to adding delicate embroidered details.
The blanket project is knitted swatch-by-swatch, making it an ideal on-the-move project, perfect for busting your yarn stash.
Also discover key finishing techniques, including joining squares, creating a professional-looking selvedge and caring for your finished knitwear. With indexes for stitches, techniques and square patterns, you'll quickly find exactly what you need.
Beginners will appreciate the clear, step-by-step instructions and photographs, while more experienced knitters will find inspiration in the diverse stitch patterns and the challenge of combining them into a cohesive project.
This is a translation from the French edition by the 'Marabout collectif' of craft authors.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: USER GUIDE
The throw
Equipment
Following the instructions
Pattern instructions
Abbreviations
Making a swatch
Charts
CHAPTER 2: TECHNICAL SECTION
The first step: slip knot
Holding needles and yarn
Thumb cast-on
Two-needle cast-on
Knit stitch and garter stitch
Purl stitch
Stocking stitch
Moss stitch
Selvedges
Making a skein
Finishing your work
Picking up a dropped knit stitch dropped from the previous row
Picking up a dropped purl stitch dropped from the previous row
Picking up a dropped stitch from several rows previously
Undoing several stitches
Checking stitch placement
Joining yarn
Incomplete stitches
Looking after your knit
Laundry symbols
CHAPTER 3: FIRST STEPS
CHAPTER 4: FURTHER STEPS
CHAPTER 5: MAKING UP THE THROW
Index of squares
Index of techniques
Index of stitches
Useful addresses
