Informationen zum Autor Betsy McCarthy teaches knitting workshops for beginning and experienced knitters. She is famous for her simple, innovative knitwear patterns and for her teaching method, which gives students the technical expertise and confidence to create their own knitwear designs. Her sock and hat patterns have been published by Fiber Trends. McCarthy lives in Washington. Klappentext Practical and Pretty, Cozy and Colorful With the friendly instruction of knitting teacher Betsy Lee McCarthy, you can produce a pair of beautiful socks on your first try. Covering everything from choosing yarns to adapting patterns to any type of needle, Knit Socks! gives stitchers the confidence to get started and the skills to tackle more challenging projects. Wear them yourself or give them as gifts; handmade socks never go out of style. Zusammenfassung Includes two all-new sock patterns. This title offers sock knitters helpful advice on choosing sock yarns - what feels the best, what holds its shape, and what really lasts. It also includes a chart that provides alternative yarn weights and the corresponding number of stitches needed for each of the patterns and sizes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Handmade Is Beautiful! Starter Stockinette Checkered Textures Classy Slip-Up Winter Garden Little Guys Low-Roll Sporty Yoga Moves Best Foot Forward You've Got Rhythm (3 variations) Off the Cuff Lacy Days (3 variations) Fireside Stripes Diamonds & Cables (2 variations) Straight-Laced Peaks 'n' Valleys Simple Ribs Shadow Box Resources Acknowledgments Index

Klappentext

Practical and Pretty, Cozy and Colorful
With the friendly instruction of knitting teacher Betsy Lee McCarthy, you can produce a pair of beautiful socks on your first try. Covering everything from choosing yarns to adapting patterns to any type of needle, Knit Socks! gives stitchers the confidence to get started and the skills to tackle more challenging projects. Wear them yourself or give them as gifts; handmade socks never go out of style.

 

Zusammenfassung
Includes two all-new sock patterns. This title offers sock knitters helpful advice on choosing sock yarns - what feels the best, what holds its shape, and what really lasts. It also includes a chart that provides alternative yarn weights and the corresponding number of stitches needed for each of the patterns and sizes.

Inhalt

Handmade Is Beautiful!
Starter Stockinette
Checkered Textures
Classy Slip-Up
Winter Garden
Little Guys
Low-Roll Sporty
Yoga Moves
Best Foot Forward
You've Got Rhythm (3 variations)
Off the Cuff
Lacy Days (3 variations)
Fireside Stripes
Diamonds & Cables (2 variations)
Straight-Laced
Peaks 'n' Valleys
Simple Ribs
Shadow Box
Resources
Acknowledgments
Index