Mary Thomas's Knitting Book (eBook)

Mary Thomas (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
256 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-31738-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Classic "how-to" book covers everything from winding yarn and fundamental stitches to making patterns and garments, blocking, and more with over 250 technique diagrams illustrating every basic step and pattern.

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There is a knitting book as dependable as your own private instructor, as complete, as explicit, and equally as helpful . . . Mary Thomas's Knitting Book. It's a veritable encyclopedia of knitting, clearly and definitively explaining and illustrating every method, operation and stitch, and a good number of the patterns you are ever likely to need or use. After an engaging history of the craft and its implements, Miss Thomas carefully lays the foundation of knitting in the opening chapters ― how to hold needles, wind yarn, gauge stitches, control tension, etc. ― and builds gradually upon it in the following sections. These explain in lucid progression every operation in common knitting, from basic knit stitch and purl, casting on and casting off, shaping by decreases and increases to turning, triangular shapes and mitres, and knitting on the diagonal or bias. For the reader who has mastered these fundamental procedures, Miss Thomas devotes the remainder of the book to fancy knitting stitches and techniques, including color knitting by stranding and weaving; pattern weaving; knitting woven, by frame with its complement of stitches (plain, raised, rib, etc.), looped, beaded, embroidered by chart, using cross stitch, honeycomb, etc.; and making patterns for garments and working out their details (armholes, belts, buttonholes, collars, hems, necklines, pockets et al). To put what the reader learns into practice, she offers instructions and patterns for making various Shetland shawls, gloves, and socks. More than 250 technique diagrams clearly illustrate every operation and pattern as to position of hands, yarn, and needle, so the knitter will have no trouble in following along. For all knitters, whether beginner or adept, a chapter of helpful knitting hints on blocking, picking up dropped stitches, lengthening, knitting up, mending, taking-back (correcting), etc. completes these invaluable and personalized lessons.Unabridged republication of original (1938) edition.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.7.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Crafts: Knitting
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Knitting, Crochet, Tatting, Lace
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Schlagworte: advanced knitters • baby surprise • baby sweater • barbara walker • Beginners • beginning knitter • books on baby surprises • books on baby sweaters • books on barbara walkers • books on cable patterns • books on knitting libraries • books on knitting patterns • books on knitting projects • books on knitting references • books on knitting stitches • books on knitting techniques • books on knitting worlds • books on pattern instructions • books on patterns chapters • books on pattern stitches • books on schoolhouse presses • books on stitch patterns • books on sweater patterns • books on texture patterns • cable patterns • Cables • cable stitch • charted • circular knitting • circular needles • color photographs • color photos • color pictures • Common sense • conversational style • daughter meg • desert island • Designing • Designs • eyelet • Fair Isle • garments • garter stitch • Gauge • hygge • knit • knit patterns • knit projects • knit-purl • knit reference • knit stitch • knit techniques • knitted • knitter's library • Knitting • knitting experience • knitting library • knitting patterns • knitting projects • knitting reference • knitting stitch • knitting techniques • knitting world • knit world • Lace • local library • pattern instructions • patterns chapter • pattern stitches • percentage • purling • purl stitches • scarves • schoolhouse press • seamless sweater • Seams • shawls • skill levels • slip stitch • spiral bound • stitch dictionary • stitching patterns • stitch patterns • Stockinette • surprise jacket • swatches • sweater pattern • texture patterns • thomas's • treasuries • white photos • wool sweaters • Workshop • Yarn • yoke sweater
• ISBN-10: 0-486-31738-2 / 0486317382
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-31738-0 / 9780486317380