The New Knitting Stitch Dictionary: 500 Patterns for Textures, Lace, Aran Cables, Colorwork, Motifs, Edgings and More

Inspiration at your fingertips!

Within the pages of The New Knitting Stitch Dictionary you will find not only 500 innovative knitting stitch patterns, but dozens of ideas popping through your mind. Cables may inspire designs for sweaters or blankets, cozy textures for scarves, colorwork for hats, mittens, and more. You will turn to this book again and again for fresh ideas!

The stitches are divided into sections by type of stitch to make it easy to find what you want: texture, lace, cables, Aran cables, flower and leaf patterns, bobbles, lifted stitches, Fair Isle, intarsia, borders, and more. Instructions for each stitch are charted so that you can easily visualize the pattern and use it in your own design. You will find this stitch dictionary to be an invaluable reference on your knitting bookshelf.

ISBN-13: 9780811771986

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - Inc.

Publication Date: 06-01-2023

Pages: 336

Product Dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Lydia Klös is a passionate knitter, and in addition to her work as a book author and jewelry designer, also frequently travels the lecturing circuit as a presenter and workshop instructor.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS 8 Knit-purl patterns 30 Cable patterns • Traveling-stitch patterns 70 Aran patterns • Alpine patterns • Celtic patterns 86 Lace-and-cable patterns 106 Lace and eyelet patterns • Dropped-stitch patterns 134 Slipped-stitch patterns 158 Nupps • Flower and leaf patterns 190 Brioche patterns • Multi-row patterns 212 Decorative edgings 228 Stranded colorwork • Intarsia patterns 260 Special techniques 272 Knitting basics 300 From pattern to finished object 306 Index