Vogue® Knitting The Ultimate Knitting Book: Revised and Updated (Vogue Knitting)

Just over a decade ago, I returned to knitting to combat arthritis and boredom/pain. With no mother or grandmother any more, I bought the last version of this book, and found it invaluable. The book takes you through everything you need as a beginning knitter, and well beyond. Whilst I have bought many other books and magazines, this remained centre shelf at all times. I didnt ponder for long when I saw how many oages the new version had, as I always like to try new things, and am very glad I did upgrade. I gave the old version to a friend who I taught to knit left handed, who is now branching out into things beyond stocking stitch.So what in the book? It takes you right from fibre and tool choices- with the addition now of many new fibres and tools through to designing your own knits. There are excellent diagrams on many stitches and cast on methods, and explanations of english vs continental vs left hand knitting, as well as the more complex styles like circular, brioche, mosaic and centre out knitting. The problem fixers are great for those ooops moments when its way too late, or embarrassing, to phone a friend. The glossaries are great and include basic crochet, as some patterns do include a bit for finishing etc. The design section takes you through from measuring yourself, via neck and pocket designs, through to blocking and sewing up. There are two new sections on designing accessories and scarves with many different styles explained. Finally there are sections on embellishing, edges, and even storing your knitting.If you only ever buy one book for your knitting, make it this one. If you then want to add a couple more, I would recommend a stitch dictionary (sometimes called a stitchionary!) and the book of 6000 pullover possibilities by Melissa Leapman.

This looks a lovely book and I'm looking forward to trying to learn from it. My daughter knocked out one of those crochet squares a few days ago after watching a video but never having tried crocheting before. I thought I'd try to go one better and have a go at knitting. Unfortunately I've reached an age where all the older generation of knitters in the family have passed on. So as I don't know anyone who could teach me and don't feel inclined to join a class, I'll have to learn on line and/or through a book. This book (less of a book and more of a paving slab really) does have great recommendations and reviews on this site. I can see why there might be a reason to get the quick reference flexibound version as this isn't going to easily balance on your knee when trying to work out what to do next with a pair of needles in your hands. Perhaps the solution is to scan or photocopy the pages you need for a project and have them on a clipboard. Anyway the book looks every bit as impressive and perhaps more so than I expected. If I can only knit a pair of socks or a woolen hat before the winter's out then I'll see that as quite a success.

Techniques for perfecting your work. Clear and concise, with illustrations. We'll indexed.No patterns. Get interweave 100, if that is what you are looking for.

Delivered quickly, book was pristine

Beautiful book , picture, cover ❤️

It's a great book and one that I will find very useful to refer back to time and again but I'm knocking off a star because of the book being so USA Centric. When talking about yarns in comparison, 1ply, 2ply, 3ply & 4ply don't even get a mention and nothing about, for example, 12ply in AUS/NZ. And what's with missing out entirely, the 7mm knitting needle just because the USA doesn't have that size, leave the column blank then whilst telling Americans a 7mm knitting needle does exist.Anyway......this book could be much better by being more inclusive for the rest of the English speaking world including mainland Europe when in most countries, English is widely spoken but they still have different yarn weight names.

I have both the vogue books and so pleased with both. This one has really good illustrations and lots if step by step techniques. I can thoroughly recommend both vogue books

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