Charted Knitting Designs: A Third Treasury of Knitting Patterns

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Summary: Only For Those Who Like Charts
Review: Because if you don't, you'll be miserable. This is not a book for beginners. I just don't like the "you'll learn charts or else" mentality here that is creeping into other knitting publications, and I am not alone in this. The patterns are great. Check it out of the library before spending your money on it. This is definitely a "buy later" book.

Also, be warned, this book is overpriced, as are the others she's written. It is too bad a publisher like Dover didn't get hold of them--the price would be within reach of more people, and more books would be sold.

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Summary: A Must Have for the Creative Knitter
Review: I enjoy creating my own designs. For much of my life I owned only two books -- A Treasury of Knitting Patterns and A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, both by Barbara G. Walker. Recently I have bought a number of other books including this one. Personally I love the charts -- I've always found them easier to follow than the written English. If you like to create your own sweater designs, then this book is a must

Rating:
Summary: A Must Have for the Creative Knitter
Review: I enjoy creating my own designs. For much of my life I owned only two books -- A Treasury of Knitting Patterns and A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, both by Barbara G. Walker. Recently I have bought a number of other books including this one. Personally I love the charts -- I've always found them easier to follow than the written English. If you like to create your own sweater designs, then this book is a must

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Summary: Charted patterns are SOMETIMES best
Review: I purchased this book thinking it would be similar to the first two Treasuries, but ended up being a bit disappointed. There are plenty of new patterns, of course, but much less than I'd hoped for, and many of them are (in my opinion) unattractive and unusable. Many of the cable patterns fall into this category, and some of the novelty patterns are just weird. The spider is wonderfully life-like, but I just don't know of anyone who wants a big, lifelike, textured spider knitted into their garments.

This was my introduction (and a good one, I believe) to charted patterns. My current obsession is cables, and many (though not all) cabled patterns work VERY well when charted in this way. They make much more sense to me than the written instructions using codes such as FC, FPC, SBC, etc. I've been taking many other cable patterns and charting them on graph paper using the patterns in this book as guidelines.

Bottom line - worth getting, but not nearly as indispensible as the first two.