Knitting in Plain English

Name: Knitting in Plain English
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ISBN: 9780312458539

ISBN-10: 0312458533

ISBN-13: 9780312458539

Edition: Revised

Authors: Maggie Righetti

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Whether you've been handling knitting needles for years, or just thinking about picking them up, Knitting in Plain English should be your bible. Drawing on twenty years of experience as "the knitting lady" in various yarn stores, Maggie Righetti provides sound instructions for beginners and sensible solutions for experienced knitters. Topics and techniques include: Picking a pattern that's right for you, determining gauge, how to knit and purl plus instructions for fifteen additional pattern stitches, how to make invisible increases and decreases, five different methods of buttonholing, how to short-row for a perfect fit, working with more than one color of yarn, how to weave invisible…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 2/15/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Introduction-A Knitting Instructor Shares Her Experience



Before You Begin to Knit



You Can Always Tell What's Wrong With the Garment by the Way the Model Is Posed, or Slender Five-Foot-Ten-Inch-Tall Models Can Look Good in Anything



Gauge Can Get You



Don't Get All Balled Up in Yarn



Some Pointed Remarks About Knitting Needles



Some Words About Patterns and Instructions



On Types of Construction



Markers Make Life Easier



Your Knitting Bag



Deliver Us from Disaster



Details, Details, Details



Casting on



There Is Only One Stitch, But You Can Do It in a Lot of Ways



Special Things to Do With That One Stitch



Binding Off and Bringing It to an End



More and Less of a Good Thing



Some Firm Remarks About Sloppy Edges and Joining Judiciously



Buttonholes Are Bastards!



Hems Aren't Hopeless



Picking Up New Stitches and Old Ones



Shape It Up With Short Rows



Duplicating and Grafting Are Not Cheating



Make Sure Your Work Measures Up



A Treasury of Textures



Working With More Than One Color



Don't Let Mistakes Ruin Your Fun



After the Last Stitch Is Worked



A Good Finishing Job Covers a Multitude of Errors



Blocking Is Not a Cure-All



Altering Is an Alternative



Delightful Little Goodies



Learning Lessons



Beginners' Learning Lessons



Learning Lessons for Intermediates


Glossary of Knitting Terms, Phrases, and Abbreviations


Index