The Knitter's Handbook: Yarns, Needles, Stitches, Techniques

This book by Eleanor Van Zandt was my Bible when I first got back into knitting. It is mainly made up of stitch patterns organised into chapters according to difficulty, texture and colour, interspersed with instructions on various techniques from increasing and decreasing to grafting. It also explains many knitting terms and abbreviations in a more understandable way, and has a needle gauge convertor from UK metric and US sizes hidden in the back. Each stitch pattern is laid out on a separate page, and both stitch patterns and techniques have colour photographs to guide the knitter. When I first got back to knitting, I tried out a lot of these stitch ...  Read the complete review