400 Knitting Stitches: A Complete Dictionary of Essential Stitch Patterns

Excellent: "400 Knitting Stitches" Potter Craft. I have 5 books on knitting cables. Not ONE of them shows how to knit the multiple rows that make up the entire cable; they only show the "cross", ie the 1 line of knitting in which the crossover occurs. Thankfully "400 Knitting Stitches" Potter Craft, includes ALL the lines of knitting/purling that make up the pattern I need to knit. Excellent photos. Excellent concise info on how to knit it. This book now allows me to create my own patterns. Most of us already have basic scarf patterns, basic sweater patterns. This book allows us to take those patterns to the next step and embellish as we wish with the type of embellishment we prefer.

Excellent resource for the serious as well as novice knitter. Each of the 400 knitting stitches includes a photo and explanation of how to create the stitches for your own project. It also includes instruction for each of the types of stitches needed to complete the project that is easy to follow. So, if you don't know much beyond knit and purl, this book will show you how to do much more for some beautiful outcomes. I purchased the spiral bound version. There is a slight problem with this format in that the spiral holes do cut off some of the printed instructions. (A letter or more here and there in each explanation is pierced through by the spiral binding. For the most part however, you can still follow the instruction.) The spiral binding does make the book easier to handle when knitting the examples in the book since the book lays flat.

I purchased this book on the recommendation of one of my favorite bloggers and teachers on youtube. This is absolutely essential for all knitters. I absolutely love this book. The best part about this book is that each stitch has well-written instructions, a close-up photo so that you can clearly see what the stitch looks like, and a chart. My only complaint is that some of the charts are super small. This book is broken up into sections; Knit & Purl, Slip Stitches, Lace Stitches, Cable Stitches, Twisted Stitches, and Double Stitches. At the back of the book, it has a section with all the chart symbols and what they mean. This book should be part of every knitter's library. It is my go-to book.

The book contains a wonderful selection of beautiful stitches. However, the compact size of the book comes means that stitch instructions don't have complete row-by-row instructions and the stitch charts are tiny. The book describes the rows in paragraph format: "1st row and 3rd rows: do this. 2nd and every alternate row: do that. 5th and 11th rows: knit all. 7th and 9th rows: do that. These last 12 rows form the pattern." So the reader has to take the time to wade through the paragraphs to search for the row. Hmm, this one must be an alternate row... what do you do on row 6? According to the chart, 6 isn't an alternate row like 4, 8 and 10... of course, unless you also read the chart you don't know it isn't just an alternate row. The text doesn't give instructions for row 6. It would be far easier to follow if the book was large enough to accommodate row-by-row instructions: Row 1: Do this Row 2: Do that Row 3: Do this Also, the stitch charts are tiny. I have good eyesight and it's a problem to read them, even with reading glasses. I have to photocopy them, enlarging them at least 200% to make them readable. The Vogue Knitting book doesn't have nearly as many stitch patterns, but uses this row by row approach so the instructions are easy to follow. (I own and like both books, for different reasons. Each stands on its own.) It would be well worth the extra expense to publish an instruction book such as 400 Knitting Stitches in a larger format to make it easier to use. I know publishing it with 3 ring binding instead of book binding is wishful thinking, but...

I am very glad I did NOT listen to a very long and NEGATIVE review of this book! I am a brand new knitter and even though many of the stitches are way beyond my skill level right now, I know that when I am ready to move on to the more advanced stitches they are just waiting for me in this great resource. I like and appreciate how the book is organized. The pictures are very clear and show great detail of the stitches. There are diagrams and yes, they are small but not impossible to read or access for me. The cover shows very beautiful colored swatches which is what first caught my attention to the book. The pictures of the stitches in the the book are shown in one cream color and some with cream and black, but this is not a problem for me because the detail and beauty of the stitches is plain and clear to me even when I take off my reading glasses and look at them! So, this is my humble, newbie knitter opinion of this book. For me, this is an excellent purchase that I am very happy with!

Very well written instructions. Easy to follow, but print is really small.

I’m beyond pleased with this book. I have several stitch dictionaries and this is by far the best one of them all. The swatches look very nice and tidy. The color used for the swatches is perfect. The yarn weight used for the swatches is perfect too. Great, professional photos. Excellent selection of stitches and the big reason I purchased it was for the single colored slip stitch patterns… they are all just great! I’m so excited to add these to my designs.

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Min fru som stickar tyckte boken beskrev hur man skulle göra på ett bra sätt men tyvärr tycker hon mest om att sticka sockor så boken samlat damm

Muito Informativo e bem explicado

Excellent book for crwating your own textures in existing patterns or making a sampler blanket for example. Each stitch is described in English notation and with a chart of that is your preference, the pictures for each stitch are clear enough to make out pattern details and where the stitch is reversible the back of the work is also photographed. I have a good few knitting stitch and pattern books but note that the Japanese pattern books seem to be exclusively chart based which I find it impossible to work from except for Fairisle colour-work and the ones that are not based on charts seem to be be written in ‘new notation’ that appears to be becoming popular in US patterns but is not standardised or clear for many of us older knitters. This book however has clear English notation written instructions and a glossary of terms in the back for any uncommon acronyms, it is my go-to for a nice cable design or lacework pattern. The only minor criticism I have is the rows are all written along one long line of text. I am used to each new row instruction starting on a new line so I tend to write out the instructions in a notebook including the back rows (sometimes glossed over with just follow the lead of the previous row which can be confusing where there are cables to know what to k and what to p). This enables me to also record the number of edge stitches and repeats plus tally the number of row repeats as well, I noted that the ‘edge stitches’ and extra repeat stitches that you need to add at either end of the row can sometimes be a bit wrong so writing out the pattern by hand helps to avoid any mistakes from creeping into the work when a row contains multiple repeats of the pattern plus edge stitches.

Bellissimo riepilogo di punti per maglia. Lo consulto spesso prima di iniziare un nuovo progetto, gli schemi sono chiari e comprensibili e ci sono buone foto. Forse alcuni schemi sono un po' piccoli ma si vedono bene e comunque sono utili. Buona rilegatura e ingobro non eccessivo, un bel libro da tenere sempre a portata di mano.