Go on a knitting adventure with A Year of Techniques - twelve patterns from world-class designers with easy-to-follow tutorials to help you supersize your knit skills. Apply your new short row know-how to a signature Woolly Wormhead hat, fearlessly steek Mary Jane Mucklestone's Fair Isle vest or graft garter stitch with confidence to make Martina Behm's modern shawl.
Techniques covered in this book are:
- Afterthought heels and thumbs
- Garter stitch grafting
- Helical stripes
- Intarsia
- Judy's magic cast on (both for starting closed tubes, and as a provisional cast on)
- Knitting on a border
- Mastering dominance in Fair Isle knitting
- Pinhole cast on (also known as Emily Ocker's circular cast on)
- Reading cables from charts
- Short rows
- Steeks and
- Turning a heel
Designers contributing patterns for A Year of Techniques are:
- Bristol Ivy
- Ella Austin
- Ella Gordon
- Jen Arnall-Culliford
- Jim Arnall-Culliford
- Martina Behm
- Mary Jane Mucklestone
- Rachel Coopey
- Romi Hill
- Sarah Hatton
- Tin Can Knits and
- Woolly Wormhead