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It's the essential guide for chicks with sticks-because knit happens.
From the tools of the trade to the knitty-gritty of techniques and patterns, all with easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated techniques. Stockinette stitch, rib stitch, seed stitch. Increasing and decreasing. All the bells and whistles: fringes, tassels, cables, intarsia, crab stitch, and Fair Isle. Plus the stitch doctor's own special bag of tricks and how to hook up with other knitters. After the how-tos come the why-to: forty hop, stylish patterns, as good for beginners as they are for purely pros.
Featuring:
• Coney Island fireworks scarf
• Punk rock backpack
• Crickets technicolor techno-cozies
• Pippi knee-stockings
• Big bad baby blanket
• To-dye-for sweater
• Princess Snowball cat bed
• Queen of Hearts bikini
Chapter 1:
Take Back the Knit: Why Young Women are Taking up Knitting Once More
Chapter 2:
What a Girl Wants, What a Girl Needs: Tools of the Trade
Chapter 3:
The Knitty-Gritty: Learning to Cast On, Bind Off, and Knit
Chapter 4:
Purl, too: Learning to Purl and Make Simple Stitch Patterns
Chapter 5:
Shaping Up: Learning to Increase and Decrease
Chapter 6:
Finishing School: Learning to Sew Seams, Pick up Stitches, and Block Your Work
Chapter 7:
Getting Knitty with It: Fancy Things to do With Needles and Yarn
Chapter 8:
Oops, I Knit it Again: The Stitch Doctor's Guide to Fixing Mistakes
Chapter 9:
A Loosely Knit Group: A Guide to the Wonderful World of Knitters
Part Two: Stitch 'n Bitch Patterns
Scarves and Hats
Bags
Baby Stuff
Sweaters
Summer Stuff
Miscellaneous
Sewing Projects
It's the essential guide for chicks with sticks, from the tools of the trade to the knitty-gritty of techniques and patterns, all with easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated techniques:
• Stockinette stitch, rib stitch, seed stitch. Increasing and decreasing. All the bells and whistles: fringes, tassels, cables, intarsia, crab stitch, and Fair Isle.
• Plus the stitch doctor's own special bag of tricks and how to hook up with other knitters.
• After the how-to comes the why-to: forty hip, stylish patterns, as good for beginners as they are for purly pros.
From the tools of the trade to the knitty-gritty of techniques and patterns, all with easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated techniques. Stockinette stitch, rib stitch, seed stitch. Increasing and decreasing. All the bells and whistles: fringes, tassels, cables, intarsia, crab stitch, and Fair Isle. Plus the stitch doctor's own special bag of tricks and how to hook up with other knitters. After the how-tos come the why-to: forty hop, stylish patterns, as good for beginners as they are for purely pros.
Featuring:
• Coney Island fireworks scarf
• Punk rock backpack
• Crickets technicolor techno-cozies
• Pippi knee-stockings
• Big bad baby blanket
• To-dye-for sweater
• Princess Snowball cat bed
• Queen of Hearts bikini
Chapter 1:
Take Back the Knit: Why Young Women are Taking up Knitting Once More
Chapter 2:
What a Girl Wants, What a Girl Needs: Tools of the Trade
Chapter 3:
The Knitty-Gritty: Learning to Cast On, Bind Off, and Knit
Chapter 4:
Purl, too: Learning to Purl and Make Simple Stitch Patterns
Chapter 5:
Shaping Up: Learning to Increase and Decrease
Chapter 6:
Finishing School: Learning to Sew Seams, Pick up Stitches, and Block Your Work
Chapter 7:
Getting Knitty with It: Fancy Things to do With Needles and Yarn
Chapter 8:
Oops, I Knit it Again: The Stitch Doctor's Guide to Fixing Mistakes
Chapter 9:
A Loosely Knit Group: A Guide to the Wonderful World of Knitters
Part Two: Stitch 'n Bitch Patterns
Scarves and Hats
Bags
Baby Stuff
Sweaters
Summer Stuff
Miscellaneous
Sewing Projects
It's the essential guide for chicks with sticks, from the tools of the trade to the knitty-gritty of techniques and patterns, all with easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated techniques:
• Stockinette stitch, rib stitch, seed stitch. Increasing and decreasing. All the bells and whistles: fringes, tassels, cables, intarsia, crab stitch, and Fair Isle.
• Plus the stitch doctor's own special bag of tricks and how to hook up with other knitters.
• After the how-to comes the why-to: forty hip, stylish patterns, as good for beginners as they are for purly pros.