Shaping Slips

Shaping Slips

There are a large total of stylish knitting patterns out there, but from time to time you want to do your own thing. Maybe you’ve found a yarn that would make a finelooking hat, and all you need are basic directions for shaping. Or possibly you’ve had your eye on a cute sweater in a store window and recognise that you may make a better version yourself—if you could only figure out the measurements. This handy guide demystifies all that knitting math and shows you how to knit custom-fitted, one-of-a-kind fashions that express your style. Master patterns for hats, sweaters, scarves, shawls, bags, mittens, vests, and socks lay out the basic construction for each item in a range of sizes; you choose the yarn and determine which modifications and customizations you want to make.

Precise master patterns show you all the steps involved in formulating handknits

• Master patterns give instructions for multiple sizes and gauges
• A number of shaping, edgings, and stitch patterns accompany each master pattern
• Helpful tips provide further and added guidance
• Tables take the work out of knitting math
• Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo
• Color photos, illustrations, and diagrams demonstrate important concepts

About the AuthorSHARON TURNER, author of Teach Yourself VISUALLY Knitting and Monkeysuits, designs a good deal of of the most vibrant and imaginative knitwear available today. She sells her patterns and kits through yarn stores and online at Monkeysuits.com.

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41 of 41 persons found the following review helpful.
Hugs to you, Sharon!
By knitter
I love this book. I applied to search high and low for patterns that would suit peculiar yarns from my (huge) stash. Now I may sit down with yarn, needles, this book, and an idea of what I want to make, and I’m ready to go. Sharon Turner has done all the tedious math in this book so I may focus on the design.

I’ve made a number of garments with this book already: socks, hats, hand warmers, mittens, and even a sweater (which was a piece of cake!). As I’ve worked on these knitted items, I’ve started out to get a much better understanding of knitting (patterns aren’t so mysterious after all), and I’m finding that I don’t even need the book all the time when I want to develop something new. On top of that, I’ve grown genuinely frustrated with run-of-the-mill patterns because they’re many times so poorly written and buggy. Why struggle through that when I may use this clear, well-written book to develop my own distinctive items?

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Last knitting book you’ll ever need
By Joan M. Parlin
This is probably the last knitting book I’ll ever have to buy. Yay! I expended hours last year searching for a cabled vest pattern and couldn’t find precisely what I was envisioning. Then I got this book with directions for each kind of vest, sweater, scarf, bag, hats, mittens and shawls one could possible want. Not only are there all the elements to incorporate into creating one’s own patterns for all these items, but Sharon Turner’s directions are so clear that even a rather inexperienced knitter (me!) may effortlessly follow them and develop the pattern of one’s dreams. Sharon even shows you varied stitch patterns. I sincerely commend this book for each knitter from inexperienced to expert! Joan Parlin

28 of 28 humans found the following review helpful.
A Treasure Trove of Knitting Patterns
By C.W. Knits
I have been looking for a book like this for ages. I never seem to be competent to stick to a knitting pattern from commence to finish. There is always something I want to change, and this book shows how to do just that.

The book in truth does break down the design process, but doesn’t leave everything up to you. The author has done all of the dirty work (like the math and yarn calculations), leaving the fun stuff like choosing yarn gauge and style for me! There are charts with a lot of dissimilar gauges and sizes included for hats, sweaters, mittens, socks and other stuff. I have never gotten how to do gloves, and there are galore very clear pictures of how to do the fingers step by step.

This books is going to get a lot of use. I just wish it were spiral bound.

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