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400 Knitting Stitches: A Complete Dictionary of Essential Stitch Patterns
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Product details
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Potter Craft; 1st edition (November 17, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780307462732
ISBN-13: 978-0307462732
ASIN: 0307462730
Product Dimensions:
7 x 0.7 x 8.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
269 customer reviews
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I just started knitting about 18 months ago, and I was soon thereafter introduced to this book. It's the one knitting book I own that never gets put back on the shelf. Whenever I have a desire to learn something new, I look for an attractive stitch, and then I reach for my US 7s and my Lily's Sugar and Cream stash. I knit up a dishcloth and stick it on the shelf as a future gift to whomever. People love the dishcloths (for some reason I can't quite fathom) and I love knowing that I've learned something new.I think that this book could be invaluable to someone who has design aspirations.At least one unhappy reviewer has opined that the book has many serious flaws. I have to tell you that I haven't noticed.
I love a great stitch dictionary, but this just isn't one. While there are some nice stitch patterns, the book has MAJOR flaws. I don't think anybody edited it! Where to start...PATTERN ERRORS- MANY of the patterns are very poorly edited. For example, stitch counts are off for pattern repeats. Written instructions and charts often don't match. The patterns cannot be trusted as written, have to be read through thoroughly, often charted out from scratch, before attempting to use/knit. Many issues and errors will be encountered.LACK OF EDITING / POOR PATTERN INSTRUCTION- Every single pattern in this book requires edge stitches added to them. This is another editing issue. If you compare this to the Vogue Stitchionary series, for example, they selectively advise when to add edge stitches (and it's not often) only when they feel a pattern requires it for stability, anti-rolling, or whatever other reason. To add edge stitching to ALL patterns - what, because of lazy pattern writing? Lack of experience? It's completely unnecessary and a good editor should have known and advised better than that.INSTRUCTIONS - POOR FORMAT- The written instructions are in paragraph format instead of list format. I understand this is space-saving and to make the book shorter / to save pages and money, but it also makes patterns more difficult to follow. They did make new rows stand out in bold font, but it doesn't help very much. They really did try to squeeze the patterns in (at times 4 per page, often 3 per page - and the book is rather small in size).CHARTS UNREADABLE- The charts in this book are TINY. I have great vision when it comes to reading, but these charts are just too tiny to see. And all of the charts on the even numbered pages (on the left) are buried in the spine. There is a lot of empty room on the pages; the charts could have easily been made larger and the charts on even numbered pages could have been shifted to the left (out of the binding).POOR COLOR CHOICE OF YARN- I do appreciate that all swatches were knit in the same yarn and color for consistency, but the yarn chosen was such a light color, it makes the more subtle stitch patterns difficult to distinguish - and if you ever want to photocopy a page to take on the go you really have to darken the copy to see the swatch at all. I would have used a yarn with more saturation in the color.INCONSISTENT PHOTOS & SIZING OF SWATCHES- The photos are also very inconsistent in that some are zoomed in close while others are not. It would be better if all were displayed at the same scale to be able to compare the patterns for mixing and matching while incorporating these stitches into garment/accessory patterns. As the photos are of all different scales, it is so difficult to accurately visualize what might work well together without knitting up a lot of unnecessary swatches. A lot of the zoomed in photos also appear a bit blurred.POOR BINDING CHOICE FOR ACTIVE PATTERN BOOK- The cover to this book is a stiff paperback so it hopefully makes the book more durable over time, but also works against the book as a functional tool. A hardcover or a spiral book are always better formats for a working pattern book. Even a paperback that is floppy and will stay open works better than this stiff book. You literally have to break the spine to get it to stay open. Or just use a bookmark and constantly open/close which is SO inconvenient when trying to knit. (With all the problems I mentioned you've likely re-written the pattern anyway.) They really just chose the wrong dimensions for this book if printing this in paperback format. It would have worked better to make a larger book with less pages. This could have solved a problem by allowing the book to lay open, and would also have allowed the printing to be larger and in a different format as noted above.NO INDEX!- There is no index! If one wanted to look up particular stitch patterns (as many do with stitch dictionaries) they have to flip through the whole book - or the whole section where they think the pattern is (there are only a few sections). I've never heard of a stitch dictionary without an index.NO GLOSSARY OF TERMS- There is no glossary of terms. If you were a novice knitter (or intermediate trying something new) and wanted to know what a stitch abbreviation stood for, you would not find the answer in the book as you should. You would have to go to another resource for the answer.MOST PATTERNS ARE DUPLICATES FROM OTHER (BETTER) BOOKS AVAILABLEMany of the patterns can be found in the Vogue Stitchionary series or in Barbara Walker's Treasury series, however a few are not in those books - or are slight variations of what you can find there. It's definitely a good variety of patterns. If not for the aforementioned issues I would reference this book. As it is, I find myself reaching for the book, then switching gears and going for another book on my shelf.BOTTOM LINE - NOT RECOMMENDED / TRY ANOTHER STITCH DICTIONARYDue to all of the book's serious flaws, I would not recommend it for a novice knitter. It would take somebody with more knowledge and skill to successfully use it since it really can't be worked through as-is. For any knitter, aspiring or experienced, both the Barbara Walker and Vogue Stitchionary series would be my recommendations.--------------------UPDATE - BOOK DONATION!This book did not last long on my shelf. I donated it within a month of purchasing it - I disliked it that much. It was just far too much of a hassle to translate the stitch patterns and completely defeated the purpose of having paid for a book where the work is supposed to be done for you with clean editing.
This was a gift: I can use it & will keep the book, but will never purchase it for a gift & would buy a different book for a stitch library. The major error, and it's a doozy, is that there's no Index nor listing of stitches anywhere in the book, neither are any stitches referred to by more than one name. This is a jaw-droppingly blatant error for a reference book as it makes finding a stitch by name a time-consumingly unwanted & unnecessary adventure in frustration.The book was translated from the French which may explain some of its disappointments; apparently publishers believe French knitters have psychic abilities & inflict this belief upon that delightful nation.Also, 'Potter Craft' is not an intriguingly named person, it is the imprint of a publishing house. In other words this book was compiled by a committee … of French bureaucrats.One imagines the setting: a conference room with an outnumbered group of determined French knitters clustered against overturned tables, sacrificing their beautiful soft yarn balls in the fight against their arrogant aristo bureaucratic overlords whose chilling laughter cuts the air whilst they callously lob heavy ashtrays of cigar butts & expensive empty wine bottles at our brave knitters. You shall not be forgotten, o valiant knitters of France!The good: excellent photos & excellent reference on graphic stitch instructions, a boon for those of us who don't speak graph.The bad, the very very bad: LAZY WRITING. No index, no meaningful table of contents, and the phrase "work all stitches in the manner they present" instead of describing the stitches needed in the plentiful room available. The latter is of NO help whatsoever to the fragile waif-like young beginning knitter for whom our French knitting siblings gave their all!This publishing house would do well to take a hint from knot-tying manuals, where every knot is indexed & known by all its common names. Even in France, home of my beloved knitting grandmother.
Unfortunately, the book relies too heavily on charts, instead of writing out the pattern. I've also come across a few chaarts/patterns that had mistakes in them. As a result, I had to look them up on the internet. At least the pictures give you a good idea of what the stitch should look like.
Quite frankly I'm completely turned off by the misleading colorful book cover, when EVERY picture inside is one bland color (cream). After trying to look pass that, I was annoyed again by the lack of common stitch pattern names or abbreviations one would see in an actual knitting pattern like CB4. They could have at least put it in parenthesis so a novice knitter (like myself) would know what to look for. Oh and the extra small charts are ridiculous.So I immediately went to the library and found the perfect stitch dictionary "Knitting Stitches Visual Encyclopedia" by Sharon Turner. OMG what a huge difference. I can hardly wait to get my new book by mail from Amazon.
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