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Summary
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 seams, picking up dropped stitches, how to hand-wash and block your finished garment, plus much, much more.
From equipping your knitting bag to knitting a sweater, Maggie Righetti explains it all simply and clearly. Each technique is illustrated with easy-to-follow, step-by-step drawings. Complete with a detailed glossary of knitting terms and six learning patterns on which to practice, "Knitting in Plain English" is an invaluable sourcebook no knitter will outgrow.
Author Notes
Maggie Righetti, a certified knitting and crochet instructor, lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she runs her own knitting design company
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Perhaps more outspoken than plain, Righetti flavors her advice with starchy humor, especially when commenting on impractical details in designs (``the dumb baby sweater''; ``stupid bonnet'') or misleading pictures and sloppy instructions on patterns. Illustrated by graphic drawings and photos, the chapters here contain directions for a variety of knitting projects. There are notes on varying the basic knitting stitch, correcting slip-ups, conquering ``the bastard buttonhole'' and other problems that can plague the veteran crafter as well as the neophyte. Righetti is well known as a teacher of knitting, author of Universal Yarn Finder and contributor to craft magazines, including Knitters. She rounds out this text with a comprehensive glossary. (March) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Library Journal Review
Righetti, well known in the knitting world, has produced a wonderfully down-to-earth, humorous, practical, and realistic book for the beginner and intermediate knitter. From selecting a pattern and equipment to completing a project, the directions are clear and unintimidating while good line drawings add to the ``plain English'' explanations. The author's years of experience have provided her with new and refreshing tips and solutions to problems faced at any knitting level. Although concentrating on the basics, she has included chapters on advanced techniques. Recommended for craft collections of all sizes, particularly the smaller library in need of a useful how-to-knit volume. Sue Black, Charlotte Hobbs Lib., Lovell, Me. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction-A Knitting Instructor Shares Her Experience | p. xiii |
| Part I Before You Begin to Knit | |
| Chapter 1 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 | p. 3 |
| Chapter 2 Gauge Can Get You | p. 9 |
| Chapter 3 Don't Get All Balled Up in Yarn | p. 14 |
| Chapter 4 Some Pointed Remarks About Knitting Needles | p. 23 |
| Chapter 5 Some Words About Patterns and Instructions | p. 29 |
| Chapter 6 On Types of Construction | p. 34 |
| Chapter 7 Markers Make Life Easier | p. 37 |
| Chapter 8 Your Knitting Bag | p. 41 |
| Chapter 9 Deliver Us from Disaster | p. 49 |
| Part II Details, Details, Details | |
| Chapter 10 Casting on | p. 55 |
| Chapter 11 There Is Only One Stitch, But You Can Do It in a Lot of Ways | p. 63 |
| Chapter 12 Special Things to Do With That One Stitch | p. 73 |
| Chapter 13 Binding Off and Bringing It to an End | p. 76 |
| Chapter 14 More and Less of a Good Thing | p. 83 |
| Chapter 15 Some Firm Remarks About Sloppy Edges and Joining Judiciously | p. 95 |
| Chapter 16 Buttonholes Are Bastards! | p. 100 |
| Chapter 17 Hems Aren't Hopeless | p. 106 |
| Chapter 18 Picking Up New Stitches and Old Ones | p. 109 |
| Chapter 19 Shape It Up With Short Rows | p. 114 |
| Chapter 20 Duplicating and Grafting Are Not Cheating | p. 118 |
| Chapter 21 Make Sure Your Work Measures Up | p. 122 |
| Chapter 22 A Treasury of Textures | p. 126 |
| Chapter 23 Working With More Than One Color | p. 144 |
| Chapter 24 Don't Let Mistakes Ruin Your Fun | p. 149 |
| Part III After the Last Stitch Is Worked | |
| Chapter 25 A Good Finishing Job Covers a Multitude of Errors | p. 165 |
| Chapter 26 Blocking Is Not a Cure-All | p. 177 |
| Chapter 27 Altering Is an Alternative | p. 184 |
| Chapter 28 Delightful Little Goodies | p. 192 |
| Part IV Learning Lessons | |
| Chapter 29 Beginners' Learning Lessons | p. 201 |
| Chapter 30 Learning Lessons for Intermediates | p. 206 |
| Glossary of Knitting Terms, Phrases, and Abbreviations | p. 229 |
| Index | p. 235 |