Charted Knitting Designs

Rating:
Summary: Charted design + photo of the knitted design
Review: Charted knitting Designs is divided into the following sections: textured fabrics, twist stitch pattern, cables, closed ring designs in cabling, cable-stitch patterns, lace panels, mosaic patterns, color patterns, uncharted miscellany and knitting directions for illustrated samples. The last chapter showcases a few simple projects that use patterns found in the book. All other chapter include a photo of the finished knitted texture and a chart (or row by row directions in the non-charted section) of the pattern. This makes visualizing a finished product so much easier and makes it easy to thumb through and look at textures. The photos cover a big enough section of fabric to really get a feel for them.

The patterns show all kinds. My favorite was one called "The Mask" in the uncharted section. It allows you to knit a theater mask into a piece of fabric. You increase and then decrease for the nose, so it sticks out for a 3-D mask.

This book is hardly a must-have (because there are so many knitting books out there), but it is very good for visualizing what a finished product will look like.

Rating:
Summary: If reading a knit pattern is your problem this is the book!
Review: I have been designing sweaters since 1968, I have found this book to be the absolute best. I am dislexic.... and reading volumes of abreviated knitting discriptions is not fun to me... this book iliminates all that by charting every thing in easy to read visable ways. For doing extensive cable patterns to color design this is the book for anyone fed up with reading the means of each stich seperatley... I would'nt be with out this book for anything... an absolute must to anyone's library of creative crafts...

Rating:
Summary: If reading a knit pattern is your problem this is the book!
Review: I have been designing sweaters since 1968, I have found this book to be the absolute best. I am dislexic.... and reading volumes of abreviated knitting discriptions is not fun to me... this book iliminates all that by charting every thing in easy to read visable ways. For doing extensive cable patterns to color design this is the book for anyone fed up with reading the means of each stich seperatley... I would'nt be with out this book for anything... an absolute must to anyone's library of creative crafts...