or rather, Knit Speak.
The folks at Stewart, Tabori & Chang sent me two copies of Knit Speak – An A to Z Guide to the Language of Knitting Patterns by Andrea Berman Price. Yes, two copies. One for me and one for one of you.
This little book (about 5" x 7") is a wonderful resource to tuck in your knitting bag. It reads like a dictionary, listing all those abbreviations and confusing terms from the beginning of the alphabet to the end. It covers the symbols, too. You can find out what an asterisk means when you see it in a pattern and why there is a difference between brackets, [ ], and parentheses, ( ). How do you Sk2p? It’s in there. Kitchener stitch? Covered. Different cast on methods are included as are cables and bobbins. The illustrations are wonderfully simple and easy to follow, also. And this my friends just scratches the surface. Knit Speak is a very comprehensive reference tool and I feel lucky to have one on hand.
So how do you get yours? Leave a comment on this post before 8:00 a.m. EST (New York time) Wednesday, December 19th. In your comment, tell me what knitting term befuddles you the most. I will randomly pick one winner. If that doesn’t work out, you can always buy it here.
Now, back to gift making…..
i was taught to knit at a very young age so my knitting lets a little to be desired. i am baffled by most of the directions, so i end up just trying to find crochet pattern instead because those i can actually read.
To be honest, I am confused by most of the terms and abbreviations š
I am still just a beginner though, Does that count for anything?? š
way to much of a beginner – i just wanted to say, wow! people are sending you books! i’m impressed…
xoxo
Hello! Thanks for offering this book. I’ve been trying to teach myself to knit for the past few years and I always end up with a scarf that the width gets larger and larger as I add a row. š I am just trying to add a quiet hobby (I usually sew at night) when my kids go to bed (4 1/2 yo, 2 1/2 yo and a 3 month old). Thanks, Nhi
I just started learning to knit this month. I don’t know anything about patterns at all (ok k means knit and p means pearl – but that’s all I understand). In fact my first knitting project isn’t even a project. I’m practicing the knit stitch, then I’ll rip it all out and start a scarf with just a knit stitch. Right now my practicing is looking all wonky – skinny in one area, wider in another. I know I must have dropped or added stitches because it looks funny in the middle, but I don’t know which I’ve done. I can’t even remember how many stitches I started with – my teacher started it for me. That being said I don’t even know how to cast on. My teacher showed me how, but now I can’t remember.
ugh – where to start with the befuddling… I’ve had this beautiful, soft yellow yarn for 6 months now. I keep casting it on (because i can do that well) and then messing up and having to tear it up and start again. And the weather is so cold that all I want to do is plop myself on the couch and knit… but I can’t!
As an ambitious beginner, I am always finding patterns with terms I have to learn as I go. I am constantly all over the internet trying to figure out what things mean because I don’t have a book. It took me about 15 min last night to find out what yo k1 meant.
I’m never without a knitting project and have been knitting since I was 10. I’m not sure if there’s a particular term that confuses me but I do have to hit the internet at times to figure things out. This book would be a great resource for my knitting bag … and for my 8 year old daughter who knits too.
I’m still a novice knitter, myself–I learned from a “Threads of Love” group at church that started knitting for charity a couple of summers ago–but the projects are always simple, like scarves, blankets, and washcloths.
I would have to say the term/skill that I shy away from most would be “in the round”…there are SO many projects (baby toboggans, tube socks, and most recently, your Maine Morning Mitts) that I’ve found that require it, but the thought of multiple needles scares me to death. Someday…
i’m with meg – they’re sending you books! go, girl.
as for the knitting, i can follow a basic pattern, but all of those ssk things make me dizzy.
This is so timely so me. I was reading over a knitting pattern last night and decided it was best to try in the morning. Too many terms I had yet to encounter. Some were explained, but they still were cloudy to me – SSP – how do you purn thru the back after slipping stitches – UGH!
dude… i so so suck at gauge. i just don’t get it.
What knitting terms confuse me the most? Oh I know! When a book or pattern randomly decides to make all of its OWN abbreviations like it needs to be more SPECIAL or something! It always confuses me a ton, and then I’m sitting at the computer googling terms only to find out it means the same thing as something I already know! Durr!!
I tend to get befuddled when the pattern’s measurements are written in the metric system. When it comes to the amount of yarn for a pattern, I second-guess myself sometimes when it is listed only in meters.
As a Canadian, when I started my biggest confusion was whether the needle sizes were in mm or US sizes. Now I mostly struggle with graphs – I feel like I need an advanced degree in hieroglyphics to keep it all straight!
Thanks for sharing!
I recently started crocheting but have found so many great knitting patterns that I want to pick up knitting too! This book would really help me get started.
Any word other than knit or purl totally befuddles me! I am a knitting newbie (started in November), so I’ve got tons of knitting terms to learn. This book would be a great resource for me.
Every time I start a new project, I force myself to do something that requires learning something new. One of my current projects involves knitting mittens with 5 double pointed needles. Talk about challenging!
Andrea
I am an amateur knitter and practially all terms befuddle me! Sk2p is a prime example. š
Dang! I have been looking all over for that book! Is it not in bookstores? Because I only seem to see it in blogland, and as a new knitter, I can’t tell you how much I NEED THAT BOOK!
Everytime I see k2tog (or p2tog), I start to laugh! As if I can! Whatever it is!
Not so much a term, but any time I see a chart I abandon project! If the same pattern is spelled out in words and abbreviations, line by line, I am okay. Or if the chart is just for colorwork, fine. But when they use little symbols and dots and hatch marks to represent what I am supposed to be knitting, I freeze up. Argh!
Which term confuses me the most? Well all of them. I am a very new to knitting. This year I decided to knit a sweater for my daughter, but before that it was just a couple of plain scarfs. I just hope it still fits when I finish it. Luckily at 18 months she probably won’t mind that it is too loose in the back and too tight in the front š
What a great book! Nupps befuddle me- I kind of know what they are, but it’s the doing them. It’s interesting how knit speak can mean different things to different people- it’s all in the interpretation. And it’s not always correct I’ve learned.
I’ve been knitting for about 10 years, and the term that still baffles me is “At the same time…” simple enough, right? But even though I read a pattern all the way through, I somehow manage to forget that little term and have to tink back to the spot indicated by it.
How cool is that? I’m at the point where most terms don’t befuddle me (execution of the term may be an entirely different story) but I’m not as adept at different cast-ons as I could be. I have my standbys and when a different cast-on is recommended, I get a little befuddled. Especially if it’s a provisional cast-on. Time to learn!
Yarn Overs do! Or should I say YOs. Because isn’t it really a Yarn Under??????
Jill
I’ve got k,p, k2tog, and p2tog down. But anything beyond that is a complete mystery! I guess thats why I have only ever made scarfs and hats… It would be glorious to break-out!
Thank you so much for sharing the book with us. And right before Christmas. I can follow simple instructions when I only have to make straight things, when I need to start making anything more complicated, things start piling up unfinished. I pick *. Repeat from where? š
I feel dumb even writing this, but “pick up and knit” has eluded me thus far. I sort of know what it means, but when they just say, you know, go and do that… how EXACTLY am I supposed to DO that?
I’ve got k,p, k2tog, and p2tog down. But anything beyond that is a complete mystery! I guess thats why I have only ever made scarfs and hats… It would be glorious to break-out!
oh…I could really use this. I am just a beginner and could use all the help I can get. xoxoxo How cool š
Oh man, I so need that book! š
I’m relatively new to any kind of knitting that isn’t a garter stitch scarf…so all those 3 letter combinations make me loopy. Also m1…because it always seems to mean something different
I would have to say that all knitting terms befuddle me, since I have no idea how to knit! But reading your blog has really made me want to learn, and this book sounds like it would be a great resource and might be just the thing to get me started!
How generous of you. I used to get so confused about the difference between SSK and S1K1PSSO I don’t know why they messed me up so much.
Is it sad that I basically have to look up any abbr that is not a K or a P. I still have to look up St st just to double check that I’m remembering right.
Currently I lug around Knitting for Dummies, but a smaller book is my dream.
I started knitting in september. I think that I’m doing ok but I have a major problem: I’m taking knitting class in french but all my knitting friends speak english. I don’t understand most of the terms they use and I have a hard time when they try to help me! Have a nice day š
Hmmm. Does my entry count if I can’t think of what knitting term/abbreviation leaves me scratching my head? Because, really, I can’t. That does not, however, mean that I’m never befuddled by one or that I couldn’t use a book like this. It simply means my brain is fried from too much gift making.
tbl.
I mean, I know what it means, and it makes sense when I read instructions of how to do it, but attempting to “purl tbl” always have me knitting instead, and then I realize my mistake sixteen rows later, and then I have to frog half of a sock, and then I start to cry.
And then I go to the fridge and drink some sake and put my feet up and tell myself it’s not really necessary to have two socks that match, and no-one will notice anyway, and I should (finally) choose between 1. being a lousy perfectionist who just gives up when things go wrong and 2. being a damn good perfectionist who looks on all these problems as inconvenience wrapped in opportunity.
Also, anything with cables drives me into a tizzy of fear. But that wasn’t really the question, was it? :o)
i am in the advanced beginner stages of knitting with patterns, what gets me are new abbreviations (i just started a pattern with TBL, PFB, etc and keep having to go online to see what they mean!) and then just general new things like kitchener stitch, and methods of casting on
i find myself always looking up knitting symbols on the internet(cables get me every time)
even though i have been knitting for a long time ..i think my memory is shot š
this would be so handy to have in my knitting bag…
thanks for sharing the goodies!
I get confused between the british and US terms for some things – YO’s etc!
I get confused between the british and US terms for some things – YO’s etc!
I am an abbreviation–love them– freak so can usually figure out most knitting patterns. Please don’t enter me in your contest, as I really don’t need the book–my daughter though could use it. Maybe I will send her here. I really enjoyed reading all the comments. I have been knitting a long long time
Oh, I need this book so bad!! I started knitting this summer – a scarf that i should throw in the garbage haha. I just finished making some coasters for my mom for Christmas. š But I haven’t done anything with a pattern yet so I really don’t know what most of it is. I really want to make these fingerless mitts – http://www.knittersreview.com/Maine_Morning_Mitts.pdf – and there’s alot I don’t understand in there… I would love this book!! And I could share it with my knitting club. š
Well, I did an entire row of decreases and messed up the ssk. i was doing a psso instead of ssk…it was not a good thing. I couldn’t figure out why I was coming up with too few stitches!
I just discovered your blog through the contest, but it’s very inspiring…I’m definitely going to add it to my feed reader.
I’m also frustrated by tbl. I understand the concept. But I’m trying to make a tuck stitch (tbl two stitches below), and it’s not happening…
surely a book that i need — i’m just venturing beyond the k and the p. thanks for spreading the word about a great resource, and for sharing your extra copy!!
Great giveaway and sounds like a book to add to my amazon wishlist.
okay erin, I need this. really. it all confuses the heck out of me!!
Pick me! Pick me! Reading knitting patterns is so confusing and I need to finish my baby’s sweater. š
I hate when a pattern reads decrease and not k2tog, p2tog, etc. I get so confused on which way my stitches should cross, you can convince yourself anything is right at some point.
I’m with beki. most of knitting confuses me!
how sweet and generous of you to do a fabulous give away.
shhhh… dont tell anyone. i cant read charts.
Ooh, that would save me from having to run to the computer every time I come across an abbreviation I don’t know. Sometimes when you’re waiting for the bus the internet is just not handy.
I need something like this. Looks great!
Wow, I am such a beginner I don’t know many terms yet. I can knit, purl, increase and decrese. I have made two scarves and one head band and I ready to move onto something more challenging!
I am forever confused when a pattern says to increase or decrease-not that I don’t know how to make increases or decreases. There’s just too many kinds of each.I just never know which kind to use when and where.
k 2nd st,k 1st st, slip both sts off needle
k 2nd st tbl, k 1st st, slip both sts off needle
As you can imagine, these socks got torn apart never to be knitted again!
I am baffled by all knitting terms! I was taught by a friend to knit a basic scarf and wish I knew how to follow a pattern. My friend was my dorm neighbor in college, so she’s unfortunately not around to teach me more!
Well I posted about an hour ago but it doesn’t seem to have made it. I don’t want entered in the contest as I would like to see the book go to someone who really needs it. I have been knitting a long long time and am an abbreviation freak–as in I love them–and can usually figure most of them out. I have really enjoyed reading all the comments–especially from the newbies. Have a great Christmas. I did refer my daughter to the site as she could probably use the book–has recently graduated from scarves to more complicated things.
for some reason, i always forget what “end with wrong side row” or “right side row” means… does it mean that’s the last row you knit? or the one you start with? i usually muddle through but being able to look it up instead of taking that leap of faith would be so relaxing.
When I first started knitting the term guage really got me. It is still something I need to concentrate on!!
I need this book!
I stopped knitting because of all the acronyms and abbreviations…I have 4 children, and learning them and teaching them leaves no brain space for the rest. So I knit, purl, and never ever bind off because I have forgotten how – and the scarf keeps on growing!!
–audri wood
scrapbooker and occasional knitter, project-oriented seamstress
Oh me, oh my! What doesn’t confuse me about knitting?! I can’t read a pattern to save my life! I wouldn’t even know where to begin (or end- remember – can’t even finish my scarf!) I would say just about everything leaves me scratching my head! š
KRPR (I actually had to look it up to write about it…) — or actually, any one where P is used for something other than “purl”. I have a problem with acronyms (which comes from speaking multiple languages, I think), and having letters stand in for different things, specially within the same pattern, really messes with my head (and often with my knitting, too!). Thanks for sharing your goodies!
KRPR (I actually had to look it up to write about it…) — or actually, any one where P is used for something other than “purl”. I have a problem with acronyms (which comes from speaking multiple languages, I think), and having letters stand in for different things, specially within the same pattern, really messes with my head (and often with my knitting, too!). Thanks for sharing your goodies!
For some reason every time I haven’t done SSK for a while I have to go look it up again or I will do it wrong. I would love to have the book.
PS. Just found your blog its fun!
I actually don’t know how to knit YET but am dying to learn. My mom and both Grandma’s knit so it is in the genes I hope. This would be a great book to help get me started. I was in my local fabric store the other day and worked my way over into the yarn section and was handling all the lovely soft yarn. Looking forward to getting started!
It’s not a term so much as knowing which way to decrease in order to get the pattern going the right direction. Is it SSK or K2tog? So confusing!
erin,
at this point they all confuse me. i get knit and purl, and slip, other than that i find myself having OCD trying to look them up in a small booklet I have, reading them over, and over, and over. I will have to get a book like this because the one I got just doesn’t do it. the terms are very, very basic. what a nice give away, and i love the things you sent to leslie!
Hi!
I always can’t remember the infinite ways of increasing and decreasing a stitch, like inc 1 st, m1 (all different versions), skp, sk, etc, etc, etc…
Do you know what I need? A book to go inside my knitting bag with all the knitting explanations…
the size of the book? about 5″ x 7″ is fine to me!
*****
This would be perfect, I’m just beginning to try my hand at knitting. Maybe my Birthday being on the 19th will bring me luck!! š
I would really love to learn how to knit but haven’t started yet so I guess every term is confusing for me. I have a bunch of patterns saved for when I learn and I can’t wait until after Christmas when I have the time to learn. Thanks for the great giveaway!
i only know one stitch. and think its knit, or purl. well, i can make a scarf and that’s about it. i so need this book so i can make more stuff! š
I’m still having trouble with yarn overs, wsif, and slipping a stitch. Sad, I know.
k1f&b
That one screwed with my mind for a while until I actually saw someone do it. Oh! easy!
What a great giveaway!
De-lurking to win this book!!! Even though M1R and M1L seem straight forward, they have me running to my computer EVERY STINKIN’ TIME. I’d really love to have a book like this to keep in my knitting bag.
Thanks!
Um…all of them? Honestly, I can get knit and purl, but beyond that, and I am lost!
That SK2p looks pretty confusing… have no clue what that is… but I think the one that messes me up almost every time is the YO. I mean, I know it means yarn over, but I cannot remember which way the yarn goes over for the life of me.
Hmm, I’ve been knitting for about 2 years, and I’ve gotten pretty good learning as I go along. I can’t say that I’ve stumbled across any terms that I couldn’t figure out. However, I cast on one way and one way only. I’d love to figure out some new cast ons, as well as bobbles, etc.
Thanks for the contest!
I understand “knit” and “purl” thus I only make scarves…I have bought patterns and marked many as favorites, all the lingo just overwhelms me! I think a book like this would help ALOT!
I am trying to keep all my brain cells up and functioning since my 50th birthday. I will be taking up knitting, eventhough my 3 daughters knit beautifully.
I think there should be abbreviation standards. In fact, I think they do exist. But what bothers me the most is when someone writes a pattern and uses their own wonky abbreviations instead of the standards we all know. What’s THAT all about!? Anyway, I guess this is more of an annoyance. š
I’m just learning to knit, and haven’t even used a pattern yet so I’m pretty sure everything about a pattern would befuddle me. What a great word befuddle is…I’ll have to start using that word with my kiddos. I was knitting out in public yesterday when someone told me that I have a nice even stitch. I wanted to go home and bake them something it made me so happy, although my happiness totally befuddled my husband.
I’m just learning to knit, and haven’t even used a pattern yet so I’m pretty sure everything about a pattern would befuddle me. What a great word befuddle is…I’ll have to start using that word with my kiddos. I was knitting out in public yesterday when someone told me that I have a nice even stitch. I wanted to go home and bake them something it made me so happy, although my happiness totally befuddled my husband.
This book sounds fabulous. I am not an expert knitter, but I am not a total newbie either. I want so much to be able to not put patterns for awesome looking projects down, because the pattern scares the tar out of me. I have started projects that I couldn’t finish because I got lost in the directions. This book sounds like the perfect cheat sheet, and I am a girl who likes a cheat sheet. Thanks for the opportunity. oh..yeah….Merry Christmas, and thanks for writing a blog that is so fun and inspiring to read.
Thanks for a great giveaway. I’m always puzzled by the direction “knit in the st below.”
I get confused by any term that I haven’t used in the past 15 minutes of knitting. I keep thinking, “Oh, this time I’ll remember what psso means”, and then there I am stuck waiting for hours somewhere, with my knitting, and not a clue what to do next.
well, i am just now knitting my 3rd project” 1 washcloth of “k” , 1 washcloth of “p”, and now a scarf combing the two – no pattern. clever, no? this sounds like a great book. too bad its too late to make it to the christmas list
Increases always get me. I can do them…kfb, m1t, or just that pick up the bar and ktbl, but I just don’t know if they’re right because sometimes they cause holes and other times they don’t.
Most recently, I finished my first (for the left hand) Serpentine Mitt (a la Mimknits) and it turned out to be just AWESOME. So, I eagerly start the right hand and no matter what I do, as I increase for the gusset, I’ve got GIANT holes. It looks awful. Annnd, NOTHING like the left gusset. I just don’t know why. That confuses me.
:-/ …..Melissa
SSK continues to befuddle me no matter how many times i do it. either that or doing anything involving short rows and math. Oh and knitting 2 socks at once! That is beyond confusing. š
my problem is when the pattern says to knit in “the stitch below”
What???any i have to agree that charts totally freak me out. ive been knitting ten years and i am stilled scared of charts. haow sad is that?:)
Why not…knit happens.
Cheers.
I’m always confused when it comes to casting in the middle of a project. Kitchener stitch, what’s that??
I am a new knitter and they all confuse me. I always have to go back and check what they mean. If I don’t win, I’ll still love your blog.
I am a new knitter and they all confuse me. I always have to go back and check what they mean. If I don’t win, I’ll still love your blog.
i’ll tell you a secret (its ok, only you know my email), although i’m a pretty advanced knitter, most things besides “knit” and “purl” totally confuse me. i think it has something to do with learning to knit from my dutch grandmother. reading patterns– not so much.
oh that’d be awesome – i have tons of pattern books i can’t read yet. š
(yfwd, yrn) – Does that mean both, or one is US and one UK term? Help!
Does this count for people outside of USA as well? Let’s say e
Europe?
Oh and the kitchener stitch… I’ve done it so many times and I still have to check how to make it. Do you start with as if to knit or knit as if to purl? I can’t even remember it know and I just finished a sock last night.
I had a pattern that told me to drop two stitches and “ladder down”…Are you kidding me… what in the world is “ladder down”. I have searched and asked…I am befuddled!!!!
sign me up! all the abbreviations confuse me
hi there — i get confused about all the different ways to M1 — i haven’t quite mastered which way i like best, though right now i’m a fan of M-ing 1 by PU with L n and ktbl! (pick me. would love this book.) thanks for your gorgeous blog.
The first time I read M1 it really confused me…..how does make one differ from basic increasing or casting on????Soooo many different ways to do things it can really muddle your mind.
The first time I read M1 it really confused me…..how does make one differ from basic increasing or casting on????Soooo many different ways to do things it can really muddle your mind.
KSKPO….. or in my world WTF especially whent hey add “in the back of the loop” to that combo….. it never looks right to me…..
great giveaway…
luv Abby
I don’t know that there’s any one term that befuddling, it’s when someone uses abbreviations that are new-to-me with no explanation that drives me nuts!
Many things confuse me. k2tog tbl is a good example of this. Quite frankly I wouldn’t know where to begin.
I saw the library had a copy of this book “in transit”, so I have it on my hold list. I’m glad someone finally put out a book on knitting terms. I get more confused with crochet, but sometimes I still get confused with the brackets and parentheses.
I’ve been muddling through with you-tube teach yourself to knit tutorials (I SO aced my first attempt at Kitchener Stitch). But I have the gubbins for my very first pair of socks and I am paralyzed with fear. I am sure I picked up the foreign language version of the pattern.
Knitting terror. Does the book give a solution?
‘ssk’ I just don’t get it. Why can’t you just leave the stitches on the first needle? Why slip them???
I am a new knitter. Knit front
and back together gets me as I am
used to the simplicity (to me at least) of crochet. Thanks
the knitting term that confuses me the most…..hmmmmm…how to choose between yarn overs thrown randomly into an otherwise simple pattern and ssk?????
Kitchener stitch always gets me. Every time I use it I have to pull up the directions on the internet! This book would be a great resource. If I don’t win….I will certainly buy it!
Ok, I have now found three giveaways for this book! So A. it is really great and people want to share it or B…. OK I won’t even think that…I am sticking with A and figuring this might be what fixes my knitting desires!
I had a pattern that said that you should drop two stitches and “ladder down”. Are you kidding…What in the world is “ladder down”? I searched and I asked and I am befuddled!!!!
Tbl or ssk or psso sometimes I feel like it is a foreign language…LOL.
Thanks,
Diana
I had a pattern that read that you should drop two stitches and “ladder down”. What in the world is “ladder down”?? I searched and I asked and I am befuddled!!!
Oh how wonderful! I might actually finish a project BEFORE Sophie grows out of it!
Marie/x
I really want to knit some hand/wrist warmers but cannot work out how to join for working in the round (or should I say rnd).
I have looked in a couple of knitting books I borrowed from my library but they just confused me even more with their cryptic explanations!
This book would be a great help I’m sure, thank-you for your lovely offer to share.
Um, all of them? I’m definitely a beginner, and I feel like when I read a knitting pattern, I’m reading another language.
Knitting on scrap yarn confuses me š
Oh thanks for the great give-away! So much fun – I’m constantly having to look up which decrease slants left and which slants right. I know – I know. It just won’t stick. Merry Christmas Erin!
I have no idea how to read a pattern. I have a friend who is an amazing knitter so I just go to her house and have her show me how to do anything more than purl or knit.
I would say purl through the back loop – just seems…well, wrong? š
What a goodie!
I had issues with k2tog and ssk, but now I know the difference. But when I first started to read patterns, they’d get me all mixed up.
Ok, I’ve been knitting for 4+ years and today I read about tuck stitches. What are these?! Does this book have the answer? I’m hoping to find out.
I frogged out my first pair of glove cos i cant seems to get the finger part right. Hoping there is somethin in the book which explains How To.
Thank you.
I’m another beginner who is relatively clueless and, frankly, struggling. My grandmother taught me to knit when I was little and she taught me a different way to knit than the people who have attempted to teach me recently. Apparently my little brain is still holding onto the old (‘European’ or ‘continental’??)method and thus creating a bit of ‘knitter’s block’!!
Any help would be appreciated!! š
simply…i love knitting and want to learn more, more, more…
I love knitting, but anything that is not a hat seems too complicated these days. I have hats down! Cable knit and different ways to cast on have me baffled, but I must learn š Your blog is lovely, it inspires me to craft more.
I am a beginner too!
It drives me nuts when patterns say “stockinette stitch” or so, and do not tell you what that means.
ok, maybe this will make me sound like a total knitting novice, but i never understand patterns that don’t give you a decent size gauge square and how to deal with that… eg a terrible knitting book i was trying to follow gave gauge as 2/1/4 stitches and 3/1/2 rows= 1″
seriously i cannot understand who would bother giving gauge in 1/4 and 1/2 stitches? what is the point?
when i’ve tried multiplying it to make a tension square(because lets face it how can you possibly accurately measure something that small) it never seems to work out for me?
The kitchener stitch eludes me. I have never once grafted a seam that actually looks decent.
I took me FOREVER to figure out a yarn over, and really it’s quite simple! But wrapping stitches when doing short rows can be confusing, and the moebius cast-on.
Have fun picking a winner! The cover design of that book is great.
I took me FOREVER to figure out a yarn over, and really it’s quite simple! But wrapping stitches when doing short rows can be confusing, and the moebius cast-on.
Have fun picking a winner! The cover design of that book is great.
I am just learning how to knit, so anything besides knit and purl are confusing to me. I have my ‘Dummies’ book to look stuff up in, but this book looks like it will be a great quick source of info. Thanks for the heads up!
Befundling always seems to follow my need for the kitchener stitch. My way of dealing with the issue is to haul out a handy-dandy how-to book and follow the instructions word-for-word (that means no one, absolutely no one, can interrupt me in this process) and only then can I complete this dreaded stitch. There, that’s mine!;-)
Right now, I’m stymied by “join” after casting on circular needles- and no time to figure it out, I have hats to produce! š
I’ve got a really big problem here… because i can’t remember. if i could remember all the little knit speak terms ~ i wouldn’t need this book as much as i do. if i don’t win i need to remember to order this book!
all the knitting lingo confuses me. I have only learned by knitting through people showing me how to knitt. Would love a chance to change that!!!
So kind of you to offer such a wonderful resource book for knitters! I have been knitting for ages but still get stumped by the abbreviations as I have a terrible memory. This book would be perfect for me!
There are so many stitch abreviations that confus me i wouldnt know where to start…lol. Would love it if my name was picked. If not then i will just have to pick up my own copy
I already have a copy of the book so don’t want to enter the contest but just want to say what a great book it is. I got my copy from amazon.co.uk a few weeks ago and it has already proved incredibly useful. It is a great little reference book that every knitter should own so if you don’t win go and buy yourself a copy without delay!
So kind of you to offer such a wonderful resource book for knitters! I have been knitting for ages but still get stumped by the abbreviations as I have a terrible memory. This book would be perfect for me!
What a great book! I don’t need it as much as the woman I’m teaching to knit does! Pick me and I’ll give it to her and bring a new knitter into the world.
sl1 wyib, and joining dpn. I think I’ve figured out both : ) Although I do seem to be holding too many needles in my hands at once. I’m a novice knitter and really enjoy your blog.
Happy holidays!
Shosh
MMMMM WHICH TERMS……….
…all the terms leave me confused,and that explains why I have a half finished sweater in my knitting bag that is already too small for ollie before it is even finished:0(
Oh i so need this book! increases and decreases confuse me because there are so many different ways it seems…
There’s a difference between brackets and parentheses? Oh dear. That I didn’t know…
OK.. here it is.. ” sl 1, K1, psso but before dropping the slipped stitch from the left needle, knit into the back of it ” I just CANNOT visualize it.. š b/c to me they are already on the RIGHT needle.. UGH…
Wow, what an offer. This would be really great especially since I don’t have Internet connection at home to look up all the unknown abbreviations. I’m a beginner so you can guess that I spend more time with the books. Your site is an inspiration and I love stopping by.
Kitchener stitch? I have no idea what you are talking about! š I learned out to knit a couple of years ago but still stick to easy projects because most patterns intimidate me. I’d love a chance to win this book! Thank you!
I wish that I could remember which decrease was a right or left leaning decrease. I always have to do some searching before I make my choice.
How thoughtful of you to share your extra book. I guess the one that confuses me the most if SK2P – have to look it up every time!!
you are too sweet! hope you are having a happy holiday!
what a lovely blog! i just found you through flickr and i’m glad to find you here too. happy holidays!
Hi Erin, I haven’t been by in so long that I missed this, (super stressed here), but how did you get sent two books by the publisher in the first place? Do you have a little something to share that I don’t know about?!! š