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Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters' Guide: Stories, Patterns, Advice, Opinions, Questions, Answers, Jokes, and Pictures

Enjoy the practical advice, real-life knitting instruction, and irreverent humor of Yankee Kay Gardiner and Tennessean Ann Shayne, the duo behind the renowned knitting web log masondixonknitting.com. The ladies of Mason-Dixon Knitting will take you on a thrilling adventure through Knitopia, a place where knitting and creativity unite through the zaniest knitted items imaginable. Kay and Ann reveal that a pattern is a starting line, a launching pad, the front doors of Saks the day after Thanksgiving: oh, the potential!

Mason-Dixon Knitting is a collection of unbelievable patterns, a how-to manual, and a crazy quilt of hilarious narrative, all in one. In this book, Kay and Ann chitchat their way through a series of more than thirty incredible patterns. Drawing creative inspiration from their surroundings, they present colorful blankets, sassy nightgowns, a delicate curtain, and much more to reveal that knitting can weave its way into just about every aspect of life. Most of these projects are the epitome of ease, but you can make them as simple or complicated as you prefer.

Kay and Ann invite you to use your creative vision to interpret each pattern and give it your own personal touch. Full-color photography of these delightful home- and family-inspired knits accompanies each project. Along the way, Kay and Ann will introduce you to incredible knitting personalities, share their own knitting experiences, and present eye-popping knitting phenomena. Mason-Dixon Knitting explores the humor, fun, and outrageous possibilities of a realm in which knitting is much more than a craft?it?s a lifestyle.

Inspiration, Guidance, and 30 Projects to Knit

Featuring: Technical hints; Great (knitted) things you will do; How to cope with disaster; Must-knit tv; Mistakes you will definitely make; Knitting for the common good; Knitting something that looks like something else

Author: Kay Gardiner, Ann Meador Shayne
Hardcover: 160 pages
Company: Potter Craft (2006-03-28) (2006-03-28)
ISBN: 0307236056
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Getting Started Knitting Socks (Getting Started series)

From cast-on stitches to binding off, this handbook details the simple steps needed to turn seemingly complicated sock knitting projects into easy and enjoyable activities. Helpful photographs and instructional drawings ensure that even inexperienced knitters will be able to produce high-quality socks and handle more complicated techniques, such as the Kitchener stitch at the toe. Using instructions for five different sizes?from child through adult large?at five different gauges, knitters can produce styles ranging from delicate dress socks to thick and furry slipper socks. More adventurous knitters can add variety and flair by following one of 16 unique designs or trying one of the dozens of rib, cable, and lace patterns provided. With plenty of tips and a handy stitch dictionary, this guide unleashes the creativity and fun of sock knitting.

Author: Ann Budd
Hardcover: 136 pages
Company: Interweave Press (2007-09-01)
ISBN: 1596680296
List Price: $18.95
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Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book

With input from more than 50 leading specialists, no other book covers the field so comprehensively. Need guidance on yarns, needles, tools, basic techniques, specialized applications, terminology? It?s in here?with lots more, from diagnostics to blocking to designs.

?This indispensable reference has...up-to-the-minute designer patterns.?--Family Circle Homecrafts.

?The ultimate reference guide.?--House & Garden Magazine.

Author: Vogue Knitting Magazine Editors
Hardcover: 280 pages
Company: Sixth&Spring Books (2002-08-28)
ISBN: 193154316X
List Price: $38.95
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Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too

Dear Fellow Knitter,

Welcome! Come on in. Have a seat?we?ve been waiting for you.

Ever since our first book, Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitters? Guide, we?ve been exploring techniques and ideas that we once thought were the sort of thing that only brilliant knitters could do.

Our conclusion: We are all brilliant knitters!

None of this is rocket science! If you can knit a garter stitch scarf, you?ve figured out the hard part. Now it?s time for the fun to start. You hold in your hands the result of our odyssey. It?s a new collection of 30 delicious projects that we hope will take you on your own knitting adventures.

Decorating Yourself: A collection of beautiful things to make for your most demanding (and forgiving) client.

The Fairest Isle of All: A simple, quick introduction to a sort of knitting you may not have considered, with surprising, modern projects.

Covering the Small Human: Pint-sized knits, including baby hats, dreamy dresses, and a cool pullover for the ultimate challenge: the Older Child.

Occasional Knitting: Projects for the special occasions in life?holidays, housewarmings, picnics.

The Sophisticated Kitchen: New uses for one of our favorite yarns: kitchen cotton.

We have filled this book with luscious photographs, stories, tips, rules, and hints. You?ll read how we arrived at these projects and the discoveries we have made along the way, and you will discover shocking things about us.

At all times, we have kept in mind Mason-Dixon Knitting Rule Number 1 : Knitting is spoze to be fun. Fasten your seatbelt?it?s going to be a fabulous ride!

Love,
Kay and Ann

Author: Kay Gardiner, Ann Meador Shayne
Hardcover: 160 pages
Company: Potter Craft (2008-09-16) (2008-09-16)
ISBN: 0307381706
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Never Not Knitting! Page-A-Day Calendar 2009 (Original Page a Day Calendars)

For obsessive knittersand you know who you arehere's a new calendar whose title says it all. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is a superstar in the knitting world; her bestselling books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Packed with inspiration, passion, and practical advice delivered with the author's signature humor and wit, Never Not Knitting! will appeal to knitters of all ages. Tuesday Tips, including how to avoid knitting those pesky swatches. Knitting personality quizzes. Plus weekly "Knitticisms," A Stitch in Time (knitting history), and Purls of Wisdom: No one has ever been killed or maimed by being adventurous with knitting, no matter how pointy the needles. Size: 6" w x 5.5" h.

Author: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Calendar: 370 pages
Company: Workman Publishing Company (2008-06-15)
ISBN: 0761150609
List Price: $11.99
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Nicky Epstein's Knitting on Top of the World: The Global Guide to Traditions, Techniques and Design

Nicky Epstein?s blockbuster Edge titles have sold more than 125,000 copies; she?s a needlework star whose every book is eagerly anticipated and snatched up. Now Nicky?s giving devoted readers her most important and wide-ranging collection of patterns yet: a worldwide tour of knitting traditions and techniques, including colorwork, cables, lace, intarsia, and more. She explains the origins and traditional uses of each one, and then goes on to reinvigorate and recombine all these beloved styles in her inimitable way. The result: more than 40 all-new, innovative designs collected in an attractively designed book with a handy ribbon marker. There?s a Celtic Pullover with braided twisted rib strips; a Snowflake Tunic from the Far North; a Felted Tyrolean Capelet with appliqué, cord, and balls; a Spanish Rose Pullover with lace accents; a colorful Peruvian skirt; and an oversized, zipped Navajo Blanket Jacket.
Colorful maps and historical photos make this collection a visual treat, as well as an invaluable tool for knitters seeking new inspiration.

Author: Nicky Epstein
Hardcover: 248 pages
Company: Nicky Epstein Books (2008-11-04)
ISBN: 1933027673
List Price: $34.95
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Knitting Without Tears: Basic Techniques and Easy-to-Follow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizes

Do you love to knit -- and hate to purl? Have you ever started a sweater without enough yarn from the same dye lot to finish it? When you cast on, do you end up with a tail of yarn that's maddeningly too long or too short? Elizabeth Zimmermann comes to the rescue with clever solutions to frustrating problems and step-by-step instructions for brilliant, timeless designs.

In Knitting Without Tears, you'll find elegant designs for:

Color-pattern Norwegian ski sweaters
Seamless patterned-yoke sweaters
Hooded garter-stitch jackets for babies
Watch caps, socks, slippers, mittens, and more!

This classic and influential book is poised to inspire a whole new generation of knitters who have yet to discover the joys and comforts of knitting. As the lady herself once put it, "properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either."

Author: Elizabeth Zimmermann
Paperback: 128 pages
Company: Scribners (1971-07-01)
ISBN: 0684135051
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Teach Yourself Visually Knitting (Teach Yourself Visually)

Do you learn faster by seeing and doing than by wading through tedious instructions? Then get yourself some yarn and needles and get knitting! Teach Yourself VISUALLYKnitting shows you the basics--photo by photo and stitch by stitch. You begin with the essential knit and purl stitches and advance to bobbles, cables, lace, and fancy color work. With fun, innovative patterns from top knitting designer Sharon Turner, you'll be creating masterpieces in no time!

Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review
* Each skill or techniqueis defined and described
* Detailed color photos demonstrate each step
* Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo
* Helpful tips provide additional guidance

Author: Sharon Turner
Paperback: 304 pages
Company: Visual (2005-12-19)
ISBN: 0764596403
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Vogue Knitting on the Go: Shawls Two (Vogue Knitting on the Go!)

There were too many gorgeous designs to fit into one selection of knitted shawls, so we had to create a second! This inspirational volume is chock full of fabulous new projects to keep your hands busy and your shoulders warm all winter long. Choose from 22 patterns, including a charming ruffled capelet, an elegant lacy stole, a cozy cabled shawl, a multi-colored mohair wrap, and many more. All knitters, from beginners to more advanced stitchers, will delight in these irresistible patterns created by some of today?s top knitwear designers. The durable hardcover format and small size make this gem of a resource perfect to tuck into a knitting bag or backpack and take it On the Go!

Hardcover: 96 pages
Company: Sixth&Spring Books (2008-09-02)
ISBN: 1933027657
List Price: $12.95
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The Knitting Answer Book: Solutions to Every Problem You'll Ever Face; Answers to Every Question You'll Ever Ask

Every avid knitter has faced this dilemma: deep into a project at midnight, just trying to finish one more row, and, then . . . oh no, a dropped stitch three rows back! Help! If only there was a 24-hour hotline to answer every question a knitter might encounter. Well, now there is, with The Knitting Answer Book . The expert authors, Margaret Radcliffe and Edie Eckman, leave no question unanswered, no quandry unaddressed. Each book contains detailed, illustrated answers to literally hundreds of questions, from the common to the more unusual:

? Are certain needles better for certain yarns?
? What if I dropped a stitch several rows back?
? Why do my edges tend to curl up?
? Can you use a different weight yarn than the pattern calls for?
? What can I do to keep my yarns from tangling up?
? Oops, I see my ribbing is way too tight. Now what?

Covering the whole range of situations a beginner is likely to face, along with the problems that may arise for those working more advanced patterns, this Answer Book will help knitters and crocheters of all levels. Each book is packaged in a small, take-along trim size, in a friendly-to-use Q&A format, and belongs in the bag of every knitter. Available 24/7, The Knitting Answer Book is always open, ready for yarn lovers to browse and consult to their heart?s content.

Author: Margaret Radcliffe
Paperback: 432 pages
Company: Storey Publishing, LLC (2005-10-01)
ISBN: 1580175996
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