Recently I was offered a copy of Margaret Fisher’s Seven Things That Can “Make or Break” a Sweater (available via Amazon) to review. What seven things, you ask? Fisher teaches about the cast on edge on the public side of the garment, the placement and type of increases used in ribbing, slanting decreases, invisible increases, [...]
Laura Birek’s new book Picture Perfect Knits just came out and the title is apt! From Chronicle’s site:
Just what the heck is intarsia anyway? One of the most overlooked knitting techniques, intarsia allows knitters to add graphics—think argyle diamonds or mod motifs—to their knits. There’s no tricky double stranding and knitters can incorporate intarsia into [...]
See? Electronic books are all the rage. First me, now Interweave. Awesome. Just in time for the holidays, it’s Christmas Stockings: 7 Classic Holiday Treasures To Knit. The patterns in this e-book were taken from Christmas Stockings: Holiday Treasures to Knit by Elaine Lipson (Interweave, 2001), a popular book no longer in print. There’s something [...]