Creating & Knitting Your Own Designs for a Perfect Fit

by Montse Stanley

Book Overview

Solid Condition Book, ideal for collector's and reader's of this skill and genre. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060150548
• ISBN13: 9780060150549
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

In some ways better than her Knitters' Handbook

I think that this book is better than the Knitter's Handbook because she has a good selection of pattern stitches. Yes, she is very opinionated about things--but then so is the Zimmerman crowd--in this book she delves a lot more into silhouettes and what is best for your figure type. If you ignored the knitting aspects, this could be used as an additional reference on pattern drafting. The color plates of the garments are pretty good, although all she gives you is yarn, pattern silhouette, type of collar, and stitches used. Not much to go on if you are used to detailed instructions! This is not really a book for beginners--her writing style and the editing makes it difficult to understand sometimes (just like the Knitter's Handbook) However, because she shows in detail how to calculate ease allowances and so forth, it will be a valuable future reference, especially for those who make more fitted knitwear. The empty graph paper sheets from 1.1 to 2.0 are a big bonus in this book as well, and even though we now have computer programs that will print custom graph paper, it is great for those of us who need to print out a sheet or two on the copy machine for travel. I wish this book were back in print as well!