As a knitting teacher, Andrea noticed that her students easily picked up the basic set of skills that would allow them to go on to create fabulous things, but once they encountered patterns, they threw down their needles in frustration. The barrier? Obtuse Pattern Language! Would they be doomed to a life of knitting scarves and potholders (not that there is anything wrong with scarves and potholders…)
How could they access the incredibly varied and rich world of patterns?
How indeed, when the teacher herself (Andrea) had problems with patterns?
Knowing what a trial it is to pore through a pattern to try to make sense
out of it, she figured she could help others by writing a book that translates
Knitspeak into plain English and thereby help other knitters move from
confused to confident.
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Customers will only knit so many scarves before they want to make more interesting and varied projects. Helping knitters learn pattern language will encourage them to try new and more challenging projects and many will keep knitting (and buy more yarn!). |
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Even long-time knitters can get stymied by the strange and perplexing language of knitting patterns. Sure, you can go to the web for answers, but you often have to sift through a lot of text for a simple explanation. |
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Knitting
books may devote one or two pages to how to read patterns, but there is
no other comprehensive book on how to translate knitting language into
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A
great number of people have contributed to this book. Some were
students, some are members of my local knitting circle, and others participated
as members of three focus groups in Olympia, WA and at the Yarn Garden
in Portland, OR.
Thanks to all of you for
co-creating this book!
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