Stitch Book Suggestion

As a newbie - taught myself again a year ago - I cannot live without my "The Knitter's Handbook"

It's saved me more than a few times. especially on Brooke's lovely Column Leaves Scarf, which is my first intricate pattern attempt.

Jenn in CA

hesira wrote:

I really like Barbara Walker's Knitting Patterns books

hesira skrev:

This one is good: The Knitting Stitch Bible by Maria Parry Jones

I don't think I've ever seen a bad stitch dictionary.

The Harmony books seem to be popular nowadays. Barbara Walker is a perennial favorite, but by the time you get all four books, you've spent quite a bit. The first two are enough to start with, unless you prefer charts, in which case I think you would prefer the third and fourth books. The old Mon Tricot books are pretty good, too, and sometimes they show up in second-hand shops.

=Tamar

I've always been a fan of Mary thomas's Knitting Book. I have my great aunt's copy but you can still buy it today:

I've always liked Reader's Digest Ultimate Sourcebook of Knitting and Crochet Stitches (ISBN:0-7621-0405-8)

A.

I think the Harmony books are quite like Barbara Walker except that the samples are shown in color. That's the only drawback of Walker to me, the b/w illustrations are kind of lackluster. HOWEVER her first two books are really essential to me. I have 3 and 4 but frankly prefer the first 2 (I don't like charts.) Vogue has a series of new large books out, called Stitchionaries. Vol. 1 is stitch patterns, Vol. 2 is cables, and I think vol. 3 is colorwork. I liked them but they're kind of expensive and Walker has more in her books. I am thinking of getting some of the Harmony books to supplement Walker though.

Alison

They must be out there somewhere. When my old one - 800 stitches - started to fall apart I bought a new edition listing 900 stitches. I still didn't throw the other one away, though.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

You can also get the book thru Dover publications. That's where I got mine..\

Donna in S. Indiana

I've lost the cover and first few pages to mine. I saw one in good shape at the library's used book sale and was tempted, but I'm only missing a few basic patterns so I passed it up. Did get an old magazine and another book, though.

sue

I would suggest The New Knitting Stitch Library , by Lesley Stanfield, lark books ,

for more verbal knowledge i suggest The Illustarted Dictionary of Knitting , by Rae Compton, Interweave Press, 1988. and i also have an old Mon Tricot , but i don`t know if you can find them. mirjam

Thanks everyone for all the great suggestions. I'll probably check out the libraries first, and then look on from there.

Hesira

hesira wrote:

There's another - The Knitter's Bible - that many people recommend.

Check out this thread...

Thanks, Suzee,

That's the one I bought!

Hesira

suzee wrote:

And I meant my post to go in the other thread `good learning to knit book' but I guess people will see it here, too.

sue