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MELISSA LEAPMAN is a widely published knitwear designer whose patterns have appeared in every premier needlework publication in the country. Her knitting, crochet, and design workshops are popular with crafters at all skill levels. She has been a featured guest on DIY's Knitty Gritty, Lifetime TV's Handmade by Design, and HGTV's Sew Much More. Melissa is the author of thirteen knitting and crochet books, including Knitting the Perfect Fit, Stashbuster Knits, Mastering Color Knitting, Cables Untangled, and more. She lives in New York City.
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There are some wonderful patterns in this book, and I've tried probably a half-dozen of them. From what I've tried, I've found the patterns to be easy to read -- I like that the author gives both written and charted directions --- and accurate. There are color photos of the patterns, and they are well represented. When a pattern is reversible, the author gives photos of both sides. The pattern book is broken down into different sections: cable patterns, slip-stitch patterns, lace patterns, etc. Maybe I shouldn't, but I found myself comparing the book to Barbara Walker's stitch pattern books. One of the things I love about Walker's books is that she tells you if the pattern will roll, lay flat, if it's stretchy, if it's good for a sweater, a scarf, etc. If Ms. Leapman had included some of that information with each stitch pattern, I would definitely have given this 5 stars.
There aren't many great knitting stitch dictionaries for the Kindle and I jumped at this since it was written by Melissa Leapman.
The first part of the book has some good information on how to design your own sweaters and how to pick stitches from the library to create the type of sweater you want.
However, the knitting stitch dictionary was rather disappointing -- most of them would not really scale well to a full sweater. Most of them don't appeal to me specifically but I guess that others might like them... many of them are basic stitches from Barbara Walker's dictionaries.
There are some good things about the format of the book -- each stitch has graphs as well as written directions. The other great thing is there is a hyperlink to download the PDF for each stitch so you can print it out, mark it up and integrate it into whatever project you are looking to design.
There are sections for Knit/Purl, Lacy Openwork (though the lace wasn't what I would consider "true" lace -- about the most complicated pattern is Feather and Fan) and Cables.
Overall, it is good because it is a Kindle version and I am more about having my books and pattern in electronic form at this point. However, it is no Barbara Walker set.
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I love the fact that there are written instructions as well as charts for each of the stitches. Having a photo of each is really great, too.
Many of the stitch patterns look as nice on the wrong side as they do on the right side; and for those stitches the author puts a symbol to easily identify them. She also includes photos of both sides of the knitted swatch to show the differences.
For the stitch patterns that have a "no thinking necessary" wrong side row (e.g., knit all the way across or purl all the way across on wrong side rows), she uses an "Easy" symbol for quick identification.
The one thing that would have made it a 5-star book (in my opinion) would be if there had been some sort of yardage requirement. Although it's understood that you can use any weight yarn for these stitches, the sample swatches were all knit with Cascade 220 yarn, provided to the author by the Cascade Yarn Company (as acknowledged by the author). She doesn't state whether it was the superwash version of the Cascade 220 or not (and I think it wasn't), but both are a worsted weight. So, if she had simply put something like, "the 4" x 4" swatch of this stitch used 20 yards of yarn," it would be helpful. With that information, you can get a good ballpark figure of how much of a DK weight yarn (for example) that you would need for a baby blanket using that particular stitch. Obviously, this wouldn't be necessary/helpful for all of the stitches (such as the Diamond Openwork Panel) but for the stitches that might be used for the entire body of a baby blanket (such as Sevignac Lace or Graceful Leaves) it would be incredibly helpful.
The Knit Stitch Pattern Handbook is an excellent stitch dictionary, but it is more. I have other stitch dictionaries, but this is the first one I've bought that shows both the public side and the private side of many of the stitch patterns. Melissa has provided both text and chart representations of the stitch patterns. I don't buy very many craft e-books because I find them to be cumbersome and inconvenient to work from; however, the author provides links to PDFs of each of the stitch patterns individually so that the knitter can print the paper version out to work from. Yes, I agree that some of the patterns are common to many stitch dictionaries, but a good many are unique to this book. The appendices to this book are very helpful. I like this book very much.
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