Margaret RadcliffeBesprekingen

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Pretty bloody nifty. I'd glanced through it for a reference on something, and ended up stuck for a wee bit. It's really well put together.

multicolor yarns, plain and textured stripes, entrelac and double knitting, stranding and intarsia, mosaic and shadow knitting

Essential techniques to master knitting in the round

This a handy reference book filled with tips and advice for all knitters, from beginners to experts. The small size makes it perfect for on the go knitting. I believe it should be considered an essential tool for the knitter.

This is a very informative,enjoyable book.

This is a very informative,enjoyable book.

I find this book to be very helpful. Since I have the ebook, I can easily search for topics, but the text references the wrong page numbers. I still like being able to search. The diagrams and topics are all great to understanding mistakes and techniques. If you are interested, check out the tech-knitting blog. It's not related, but very similar content.

every knitter should have this book in their bag of tricks!

This title presented me with something of a challenge: can I find a problem it can’t solve or ask a question it can’t answer? Well, yes. The book does cover a lot of ground, but I think it unlikely that it can deliver on its promise in the same way that having a conversation with an experienced knitter would. I was curious as to whether it would offer a solution to my problem of not being able to get the end of the ball of wool out of the centre without pulling the entire middle section out. I’m still none the wiser. The book also only uses US terminology, which I know shouldn’t matter, but ‘stockinette’ kept giving me the visual equivalent of a nervous twitch every time I read it. There’s some good advice in there, but I found it was smothered by the style and tone, which is unfortunate.

Circular Knitting Workshop Essential Techniques to Master Knitting in the Round
by Margaret Radcliffe
First starts out with what looks like colorful doll sweaters and vests as if I needed any enticing to continue on.
Like the comparisons it shows from circular to straight knitting, the ribbings.
Hands on diagrams make it easy to see so you can do what they are talking about in each chapter.
Multiple means of casting on and working with magic loop method is described along with binding off methods.
A chapter I was looking forward to was the converting flat knitting to circular. I just really like to knit with
circulars, especially on a plane so I'm not apt to lose one of my 4 double pointed needles.
Shows basic chart knitting if you need a refresher or are a newcomer to that method of following a pattern.
Patterns for potholders, bags and hats are included.
Love just the different patterns and am thinking of another baby afghan I have to make this week looking at the diamond pattern vs. the one I am currently using will be a nice selection.
Always am telling my blind friend that you can knit with needles and make a circle but that you'd have to then sew up the seam-she can't do the circulars but this book gives me another idea on how to achieve it.
Shawls and scarves, socks and mittens and gloves, vests and sweaters. Something for everybody in this book, beginning or experienced knitter.
Other abbreviations, glossary and index are at the back of the book.

This really does seem to answer a lot of my questions. My other general knitting books are written for beginners. This one is more for the intermediate knitter who wants to improve.

I suspect that some of the answers might be overwhelming for beginners. But if you think that might be a problem for you, the chapters are generally set up so that the answers get more complicated as the chapter goes on. If you just need some way to cast on or decrease or whatever, read the first few questions and answers until you have what you need, and stop there. If you are ready to learn several ways to do it, and which method might work best and why, just keep reading.

Wow! By the end of the first chapter I had already learned a lot. There are several techniques in here that I want to try soon. Wish I had had the book before, as a lot of what I already knew in here I learned the hard way.½

As the title promises, the focus of this book is on knitting techniques and how to best integrate them with color knitting. The author starts with a solid introduction to the basics of color theory, not too complicated, but enough to give the reader a working vocabulary of color terms. From there, she moves to the techniques themselves with chapters both on well-known ones like stripes and stranded knitting as well as one on less commonly-used techniques such as helix knitting, double knitting, and mosaic knitting. There are also chapters on using multicolor yarns effectively, finishing, project design, and an appendix on basic knitting techniques .

This is an impressive work. There are good clear color photos on almost every page, as well as several charts, to go with just about everything the author discusses (the book is oversized, which means there is room on each page for pictures large enough to see easily). There are only a few patterns included, great for a book that I want to keep for years as a reference. Radcliffe's writing is interesting enough that I read the book from beginning to end instead of just flipping straight to whatever technique I wanted to learn about. She discusses the well-known techniques thoroughly, and provides a bibliography of more specialized books—useful for the techniques she doesn't discuss as much. This is a great reference on color knitting, and I look forward to putting it to use.

Every knitter needs at least one copy of this book. It would be ideal to have one in every knitting bag. There isn't a problem it can't solve.

This book will get your creativity flowing, teach you new techniques or give a new perspective on what you thought you already knew all about. It will get you excited about your knitting.Checked this book out of library and just had to have my own copy. ENJOY.

excelent reference text

There is a lot of good information in this book. Right now as it stands there are areas in less common color knitting techniques I wish had more information such as double knitting but there are other areas that include plenty of techniques I would have never thought of and many other books don't cover. It is well written and I think anyone with basic knitting familiarity could benefit from this book.

The best! This is the book that lives in my knitting bag. I've used it a hundred times, for dozens of different questions. The "must have" knitting book!

The Knitting Answer Book, solutions to Every Problem You’ll Ever Face. Answers to Every Question You’ll Ever Ask. By Margaret Radcliffe. Storey Publishing. 2005.

A little short fat book beginners are advised to keep in their knitting bag. It’s divided into sections: Casting On, the Basics and Binding off. Then it proceeds to Tools, Yarn, Reading Patterns, Stitches, Circular Knitting, Colour, Shaping, Fitting, Finishing and ends with Embellishments.

Questions and Answers throughout.

Q: I’m lefthanded and I’ve been told I need to learn to knit backward.
A: an adamant no!
‘Be interesting to hear a debate between experienced leftie knitters.

Jacqueline Biéler, November 2008

Great little how to book -- small enough to carry with you in your knitting bag. Full of helpful information.

Great for both beginners and advanced knitters. Answers all sorts of questions and clearly too, from how to read your knitting to several different castons and their uses (which is best for what). I love answers that tell you that all techniques are useful and when they are most useful.

Great book. Answers all sorts of little pesky questions that I was always bugging the owner of my LYS about.

Small enough to carry in your knitting bag and valuable enough to do so.