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Teach Yourself Visually Knitting (Teach Yourself Visually) | 
 enlarge | Author: Sharon Turner
Publisher: Visual
Category: Book
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Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 5303
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0764596403
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.432
EAN: 9780764596407
ASIN: 0764596403
Publication Date: December 19, 2005
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Product Description
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 64 more reviews...
 Visually? January 5, 2009
Cheeke Maroo (Washington, DC)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Arg. The sparse images in this book are too far zoomed out to really SEE what the needles are doing. I ended up using YouTube for free and learned to knit, purl, bind off in minutes.
Also, are the chapters out of order or what??!?! Arg. Suddenly you jump into making patterns with techniques that are not explained anywhere in the book (or if they are I certainly didn't find them, and I looked. Index anyone? Hello? No definition of how to SLIP STITCH in the index?!?! And this is supposed to teach a beginner?!)
Before you buy this book, try YouTube. I can't believe I bought this crappy book.
 Not really for a complete beginner December 28, 2008
tachi1 (Miami, FL United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is excellent for someone who either already has limited experience knitting or who has a friend or teacher who can answer really basic (as in "stupid") questions. If you don't fit into either of these categories, there is no way you will "teach yourself visually knitting" just with this book.
There are too many gaps. For example, there is the assumption that you instinctively know which is the "right" side and which is the "wrong" side, among other basic bits of knowledge. This may or may not be important, but when the instructions say do this on the right side and that on the wrong side, you'd like to know before proceeding. Being told that the "wrong" side is the side you don't see when you're wearing it is not helpful because, right now, you're not wearing it. Being shown what the right side looks (or should look) like and what the wrong side looks like, would be. (When you are really beginning, the anatomy of a stitch is not exactly obvious. You're just following a sequence of instructions and not sure why or how it all fits in at the end).
I also didn't find the "mistakes" section as clear as I would have liked: what is a "dropped" stitch? How did it happen? What can I do to prevent it? At a critical point such as a mistake (where you're close to panicking that you've just blown the whole project!) a few more photographs in the sequence of steps would have made an already tense situation a little less tense.
Assuming that you are truly gifted and that you make it to the end of your project and now you now want to get the knitting off the needle and around your neck, you have to either make sense of the description (which is clear but intimidating) or get a magnifying glass to see exactly where the needles go in relation to the yarn in the small and distant illustration. (A macro lens for closeups would have been a nice touch throughout the book, but particularly here).
Having said this from a real beginners point of view, the book appears to be an excellent resource for somewhat more confident knitters or knitters who want to expand beyond the basics. It has a section that shows swatches created using many types of stitches that, I'm sure, will come in handy someday. There is a lot of good information that I couldn't find elsewhere (such as get ready to start a new ball of yarn when you're getting close to having 4 times the length of yarn as the width of your project.)
I gave it only 3 stars, not because it's a bad book--it's not--but because the content is not consistent with the implied level of the title and I find that misleading. This is not a book that gives you a great sense of security when you're starting out.
If you haven't ever picked up a knitting needle, I would suggest Nici McNally's DVD The Complete Beginner's Guide to Knitting (also available at Amazon). That one IS for complete beginners, you see what you have to do and what it should look like when you do it (close up and slowly), and it tells you what mistakes you're likely to make when you're starting and how to prevent or correct them. It doesn't cover too much ground but it does cover what you need to know NOW.
 Great book November 24, 2008
Matei Roxana Andreea (Romania)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really like this book as it really helps with learning how to knit. Also it arrived very fast 2 weeks earlier than it should have. Considering I live half the world away ... it was preatty fast. Thank you Amazon!
A must have knitting resource November 11, 2008
K. D. Wells (Northern CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After being frustrated with a little knitting booklet I purchased at a craft shop I ordered this book. I am so glad I did, Teach Yourself Visually Knitting has been instrumental in helping me learn to knit. The pictures are easy to see and the descriptions make sense. This book will remain as a main source in my knitting library and I recommend it to all beginning knitters. I've moved onto intermediate knitting projects now (in large part due to how well this book explains the stitches), but whenever I see a new stitch in a pattern I'm using I turn to this book first for explanation. Most of the time it will have the stitch and I'll be able to easily understand how to do it. I don't think I could have improved as much as I have in a little less than a year without this book.
Great Resource!! October 5, 2008
Tammy (Georgia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just about threw my knitting needles out the window until I discovered this book. It's filled with very clear and concise instructions. The best part of this book is the clear, close-up pictures. It's not one of those knitting instruction books with the half sketched illustrations of hands with knitting needles. It actually shows you every step and also includes common problems and the solutions. I highly recommend this to be in any knitters library.
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