Product Description: Texture is an exploration of the vast landscape of knit fabrics. Known for her simple, timeless designs, Hannah Fettig of Knitbot takes her well-loved knitwear "essentials" a step further with a focus on textural stitch patterns. Highlights include delving into the characteristics of textured fabric, comparing stitch patterns at different gauges, working shaping into patterned fabric, and more...read more

Product Description: Shape your knitwear seamlessly--using short-rows! Add seamless curves, soft angles, and depth to your finished pieces with Knitting Short Rows. Inside, Jennifer Dassau teaches you this essential technique in a beautiful package, providing know-how and design inspiration...read more

Product Description: This book is the first to explore handicrafting practiced by media fans, their online fan communities and the multiple meanings they create. Based on in-depth ethnographic research into fans on the online social network for knitters, crocheters and crafters, Ravelry, Brigid Cherry explores textile craft by fans as both an artistic practice and transformative fan work...read more

Product Description: This stylish and beautifully photographed book contains 27 knitted mitten patterns for women and men. The book is split into seasons, with eight pairs for spring and summer, seven pairs for autumn and twelve pairs of mittens for winter...read more

Product Description: Nordic knitting projects that blend contemporary patterns with traditional colorwork for a style that will appeal to all knitters.     Hilary Grant takes a thoroughly modern approach to Nordic knitting with this collection of thirty projects...read more

Product Description: Dive into the wonderful world of innovative knitter, Sachiyo Ishii and create an ocean of fishy friends. This charming book contains over 30 fun, simple knitting patterns for a range of cute and cuddly underwater characters. Create simple nautical knits such as dolphins, whales, clownfish and sharks, and then try your hand at larger maritime toys, including a fishing vessel, a ship’s crew, some magical mermaids and a yellow submarine...read more

Product Description: Jo Sharp's knitwear collections incorporate simplicity, comfort, and wearability. Her instructions for knitting are clear and simple to work with and are based on her 30 years experience in the industry. Jo's books are renowned for their stunning photography and timeless style...read more

The rhythm, ritual, and pleasure of knitting are celebrated in this new collection for lovers of both knitting and literature. In Knitting Pearls, two dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting. Lily King remembers the year her family lived in Italy, and a knitted hat that helped her daughter adjust to her new home. Laura Lippman explores how converting to Judaism changed not only Christmas but also her mother’s gift of a knitted stocking. Jodi Picoult remembers her grandmother and how through knitting she felt that everlasting love. And Bill Roorbach remembers his freshman year in college when knitting soothed his broken heart and helped him fall in love again. Other contributors include Steve Almond, Ann Leary, Christina Baker Kline, Lee Woodruff, and knitting rock stars Jared Flood of Brooklyn Tweed and the Yarn Whisperer, Clara Parks. With knitting patterns from renowned stores such as Purl Soho, Hill Country Weavers, and Churchmouse Yarns, Knitting Pearls is by turns delightful and heartbreaking, joyous and wise. These personal stories by award-winning writers celebrate the moments of loss and love intertwined in the rhythm, ritual, and pleasure of knitting. ---

Product Description: Knitters will love this fabulous collection of adorable knitted dolls and their very contemporary styled clothes and accessories. There are 12 different dolls and all of the garments can be mixed and matched to create unique outfits...read more

Product Description: Incorporate diagonals, triangles, squares, circles, and other stylish geometric patterns in your knitwear! Through ten easy lessons and ten projects for color-work knitting, designer Mary Jane Mucklestone teaches intermediate knitters a variety of techniques, including striping and the Fair Isle color work for which she’s renowned...read more

Product Description: What are all of the fashionable pups wearing this year? Hand-knit sweaters, of course! Knitting is a trendy hobby, and what’s cuter than a dog in a sweater? Cable-knit, ribbed, raglan, chunky, turtleneck—you name it, and Redhound for Dogs has a pattern for it...read more

Product Description: All your favorite contemporary knits, in one book: shawls, scarves, hats, wrist warmers, mittens, and gloves! With delightful easy-to-wear accessories in all styles and sizes, from classic and elegant to cozy and colorful, garter stitch and stockinette to entrelac and herringbone, Modern Knits from Sweden will keep any experienced knitter warm all winter long...read more

A shawl can keep you warm in the winter, top off an elegant evening dress, or chase away the chill on a summer evening. It’s the perfect addition to any wardrobe—and the perfect project for any knitter who’s tired of working on scarf after scarf and wants to move on to something new. Vogue Knitting Shawls & Wraps presents 25 of the magazine’s most gorgeous wraps, all created by today’s top knitwear designers.  The patterns include a chic beaded shawl or one with delicate open lacework; a cozy cabled cape, a stylish fringed wrap, and many other exquisite designs.   

This is the one-stop resource for both beginning and accomplished stitchers alike! It’s a definitive reference for all aspects of knitting, from the first stitch you cast on to the care and maintenance of your projects. Newcomers can learn every aspect of the art, including how to knit with color, make professional finishings, and adapt patterns. Experts will love its simple format, glossary and index, and find it handy for looking up old tricks and learning some valuable new ones, too. And, with more than 400 illustrations and diagrams to follow, readers will never drop a stitch. Knitters who find themselves in knots will find help in a troubleshooting section, and the more ambitious will find irresistible challenges in a chapter devoted to making their own designs.