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Title: Socks: A Spin-Off Special Publication for Knitters and Spinners by Rita Buchanan, Deborah Robson ISBN: 0-934026-94-7 Publisher: Interweave Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Valuable resource for avid sock knitters
Comment: This book is an outgrowth of an issue of Spin-Off that featured hand-knit socks. Spin-Off is Interweave Press's magazine devoted to the art of handspinning fiber. The sock issue sold out and there was quite a lot of demand for a reprint. So the publishers kindly printed up the socks featured in the magazine and added notes for using commercial wools.
Some of the patterns are particularly useful and are ones you won't find elsewhere. For example, there is a pattern for exceptionally warm and comfy fleece-lined socks. There are also a lot of just plain gorgeous socks, plus advice on Kool-Aid(tm) dyeing, a technique that uses unsweetened drink mix to dye wool in all sorts of shades.
If you are a handspinner, this book will speak to you, but even if you are not ever going to try spinning or have access to hand-spun yarn, the sock patterns here are useful and imaginative.
Rating: 5
Summary: A really good basic introduction to knitting socks
Comment: There are a lot of things I really like about this book. It has a lot of basic patterns in it that a relative beginner could tackle, but it also has more challenging (and fancier) designs for the advanced knitter. Most of the designs were originally developed for handspun yarn, but commercial yarn substitutes just fine. One neat thing they have is a little diagram showing the thickness of yarn used in the original socks, so you can compare your yarn to be sure it's compatible. I've made a few pairs of socks out of this book and been very happy. One thing: on some of the patterns, there are no "counts" given for turning the heels. On "Basic Socks" for example, I had to use yarn markers to be sure the heel came out right. But other than that, this is a great sock book. A lot of the patterns are designed for worsted-weight yarn, so if you don't always like to work with narrow-narrow little sock yarn, this might be a book for you.
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Title: The Knit Stitch (The Knitting Experience, Book 1) by Sally Melville, Alexis Xenakis, Xrx Press ISBN: 1893762130 Publisher: XRX Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook: Dyeing, Painting, Spinning, Designing, Knitting by Lynne Vogel ISBN: 1931499160 Publisher: Interweave Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Knitting Experience: The Purl Stitch (Knitting Experience Series, Book 2) by Sally Melville, Alexis Xenakis ISBN: 1893762149 Publisher: XRX Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Folk Socks: The History & Techniques of Handknitted Footwear by Nancy Bush ISBN: 0934026971 Publisher: Interweave Press Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles: a Manual of Elegant Knitting Techniques and Patterns by Cat Bordi ISBN: 0970886950 Publisher: Passing Paws Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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