The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes and Gauges

By Robert C. Richardson and William Bechtel

Book Overview

Offering charts and plans for making infant- through adult-sized projects, this unique book provides knitters with a complete resource of more than 350 patterns for caps, tams, scarves, vests, sweaters, mittens, gloves, and socks that are written for multiple gauges to accommodate all weights of yarn from bulky to fingering. Also included are the basics of pattern design and alteration to allow for the addition of different types of texture and color patterns or the modification of existing patterns to accommodate more gauges. Patterns are also accompanied by an assortment of ideas for edgings and finishes, further expanding design options.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931499047
• ISBN13: 9781931499040
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Krause Craft
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Perfect guide to adjust that favorite pattern

I'd found a vintage sweater I wanted to knit but the size was off. With this book I was able to adapt to the correct fit and the sweater is a well loved garment.

Nothing But Praise--A Must Have (put next to your EZ's!)

As a patternless person, I often found myself holding up a piece of a garment going, "What in the heck is that?" Sleeves often became seamed hoods, thumbs started resembling arm openings, and socks, well, we all know about socks. About the fourth guess on a cast on, I'd get fed up and have to eat something chocolate to cope. Not pretty. This wonderfully designed lie-flat book elminated that problem for me. For example,...

Excellent Book to use with Handspun or Stash Yarns!

This book is another excellent resource to use with Handspun Yarns or Stash Yarns! In this book--which will most likely revolutionize pattern writing for knitting books, Ann Budd has created a very useful tool/book for a wide variety of basic patterns which use multi-sizing and multi-gauge charts. This is an idea that every knitter and spinner of handspun yarns has been waiting for! For many years, I've heard requests from...

I rate this a MUST-HAVE knitting essential--here's why:

I have been knitting for 35 years and make everything from socks to afghans. I like to design my own patterns, but when in a hurry I like to follow a pattern "recipe." This book allows me to do both: I can follow the blueprints here to make the basic garments or I can use them as a template for embellishments of my own. Now, that is supremely useful, so right away, "The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns" got my vote as "most...

Happy Knitter

I have been knitting for a year and a half and consider myself to be intermediate. How I wish this book had been available when I was first learning! Like most new knitters, I had very definate ideas on what I was going to knit but patterns do not always match imagination so I was sometimes stuck knitting from patterns that were not quite what I wanted.In the introduction to the book, the author voices the exact same feelings,...