Meg Swansen's Knitting

Meg Swansen's Knitting
Author: Meg Swansen
Publisher: Interweave
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-12-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781883010584

American knitting guru Meg Swansen shares tips, tricks, techniques, and secrets she has learned and discovered during her long knitting and designing career. The introduction gives the reader a candid look into the knitting world of the daughter of America's first famous knitter and author, Elizabeth Zimmerman. Full of original designs, this book includes instructions and charts for 22 sweaters, three vests, four fitted-arch socks, and three convertible-top mittens, each rendered in four-color fashion photography taken on-site at Meg's home. A section on techniques includes a glossary of relevant knitting terms, the famous EZ Percentage System, and various ways to cast on, bind off, increase, and decrease.

The Opinionated Knitter

The Opinionated Knitter
Author: Elizabeth Zimmermann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2005
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780942018264

The Opinionated Knitter includes 22 of Elizabeth Zimmermann's original patterns, plus excerpts from her journal (previously unpublished) and notes from Meg Swansen.

Mary Thomas's Knitting Book

Mary Thomas's Knitting Book
Author: Mary Thomas
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-07-24
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486317382

Classic "how-to" book covers everything from winding yarn and fundamental stitches to making patterns and garments, blocking, and more with over 250 technique diagrams illustrating every basic step and pattern.

Knitting Without Tears

Knitting Without Tears
Author: Elizabeth Zimmerman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1973-07
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0684135051

The author guides the novice and the experienced knitters in short-cuts and construction tricks and offers twenty original designs

Twisted-Stitch Knitting

Twisted-Stitch Knitting
Author: Maria Erlbacher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2009
Genre: Knitting
ISBN: 9780942018301

174 traditional stitch patterns from the author's collection, plus instructions for jackets, vests and elegant stockings.

Sequence Knitting

Sequence Knitting
Author: Cecelia Campochiaro
Publisher:
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2015
Genre: Knitting
ISBN:

Every knitter, whether a beginner or an expert, wants easy projects for travel, gifts or those times when following a complex pattern is impractical. Sequence Knitting introduces a radical and simple approach for creating amazing fabrics by working a sequence of stitches over and over again. Beginning with 1-row patterns, the book delves into the possibilities of this technique, expanding into methods for creating complex designs that can be worked back and forth, in the round, or in shapes like triangles. The book includes stitch dictionaries with over 190 fabrics, many of which are new and reversible, as well as over 40 patterns for simple and elegant accessories. This groundbreaking book is sure to become a classic must-have for every knitter s reference library.

A Gathering of Lace

A Gathering of Lace
Author: Meg Swansen
Publisher: XRX Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Knitted lace
ISBN: 9781893762022

34 lace knitters share their secrets and their favourite projects.

Sock Knitting Master Class

Sock Knitting Master Class
Author: Ann Budd
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1620333147

Work from the ground up with knitwear design: create your own socks! Sock Knitting Master Class showcases methods for designing and knitting creative socks, featuring signature elements and techniques from 16 top designers. You'll learn what makes good sock design, and then dive into knitting 18 spectacular, brand-new patterns featuring the widest variety of techniques. With patterns divided into two sections by top-down and toe-up construction, Sock Knitting Master Class explores such techniques as cables, twisted stitches, lace, stranded colorwork, entrelac, shadow knitting, and intarsia worked in the round. Plus, you'll discover inventive ways to start and end socks, shape heels and toes, and knit the soles. Sock Knitting Master Class is an all-star assembly of the most inventive, exciting designers working in socks including Cookie A, Kathryn Alexander, Nancy Bush, Cat Bordhi, Priscilla Gibson-Roberts, Anne Hanson, Melissa Morgan-Oakes, Meg Swanson, Anna Zilboorg, and many more. And you'll also learn how each yarn contributes to the overall design from Clara Parkes.