Knit Aid: A Learn It, Fix It, Finish It Guide for Knitters on the Go [Hardcover]

Vickie Howell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 6, 2008

Vickie Howell, the DIY channel’s popular queen of knitting, knows that all knitters—even the most experienced—sometimes need help. What kind of yarn is best for a specific project? How do you pick up dropped stitches without ripping a project apart? How do you knit and purl Continental-style? With her unmistakable charm, Vickie delivers practical answers to every knitter’s questions, offering tips on choosing a project, selecting needles and yarn, finding the speediest knitting method, and even handy new ways of carrying your knitting and the best times to work on it. With its convenient size, lie-flat spiral binding and easy-to-follow diagrams and illustrations, this is an item that should be in every knitting bag.

 

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (May 6, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402746814
• ISBN-13: 978-1402746819
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #884,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Vickie Howell is a mother, self-taught designer, writer, spokesperson, viral marketing consultant and DIY Lifestyles expert with a focus on the Needle Arts and environmentally conscious crafting.

Vickie is most well-known as the Host and Creative Consultant of 8 seasons of DIY Network & HGTV's show, Knitty Gritty. She was also the co-host of DIY's Stylelicious, Lifetime Television's web series, CRAFTED, and several craft-based TV specials.

Vickie has been featured internationally in numerous televisions shows, radio broadcasts and publications including: NBC's The Today Show, BBC Radio Scotland, E! Entertainment's Singled Out, and Real Simple Magazine.

Vickie's designs and projects have been included in over 100 publications worldwide including her celebrity column for Knit.1 Magazine, the Eco-Craft column she wrote for 3 years for Kiwi Magazine, the 2009 Lands' End FeelGood Campaign (of which she was the spokesperson for), her blog column Craft Apparent for PBS Parents and weekly articles for iLovetoCreate.com. She's also Caron's Celebrity Spokesperson.

Vickie is the best-selling author of several craft books: the 2005 Craft Trends Award Finalist, New Knits on the Block: A Guide to Knitting What Kids Really Want (Oct. '05), Not Another Teen Knitting Book (June '06), Knit Aid: A Learn It, Fix It, Finish It Guide for the Stitcher on the Go (May '08), Pop Goes Crochet (May '09) and, AwareKnits: Knit & Crochet Projects for the Eco-Conscious Stitcher (Oct. '09), co-written with activist, Adrienne Armstrong.


The book behind Vickie's community-driven project, Craft Corps hits shelves in May '10. Until then, she's encouraging artists, crafters and creative types of all kinds to join "The Corps" by telling their stories through profiles on the Craft Corps website: http://www.craftcorps.org

All of Vickie's creative endeavors along with her husband Dave Campbell's movie news site, Smells Like Screen Spirit, are housed under their company Craft.Rock.Love Media, LLC. For more information on Vickie and all of her projects, go to: http://www.vickiehowell.com

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWwwwwwesomeee!, May 8, 2010

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ditzymudgirl "ditzymudgirl" (United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Knit Aid: A Learn It, Fix It, Finish It Guide for Knitters on the Go (Hardcover)

I'm a novice knitter and artsy. I cannot, cannot cannot follow a pattern in the books! This book is written for people like me. It's step by step with lots of illustrations. There are no pictures, but the illustrations suffice. It doesn't try to be too hip and doesn't seem to be treating me like an expert. There are things I can progress to but for now, it stays with me in the knitting bag. I looked at all the books and checked this from the library first. I found it was best for me! Love that it's spiral bound!! Happy knitting! Highly recommend it!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Made my brain hurt,.., January 11, 2010

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Daniel Stearman (Central KY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Knit Aid: A Learn It, Fix It, Finish It Guide for Knitters on the Go (Hardcover)

I question if this would be valuable reference material for intermediate or advanced knitters, but I can attest to its uselessness for beginners. As a generally handy/crafty person I found the diagrams and instructions for basic knits to be generally unusable. By simply following instructions, I managed to fail at every single method of casting on. I went back to the most basic method of casting on (the "e" method) and after several attempts managed to figure it out. The result of which was a moment of realization as to how generally overcomplicated and/or wrong the authors instructions were.

In short, while the author seems to be witty and entertaining, the illustrations are horrid and the instructions are lacking in ability to actually instruct.

For beginners I recommend either finding a local knitting club to sit with or looking through some videos on youtube. These knitting motions are infinitely easier to learn by watching.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very handy!, February 24, 2009

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Denise D. Williams "dendiane" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Knit Aid: A Learn It, Fix It, Finish It Guide for Knitters on the Go (Hardcover)

I really like this book. It's exactly what I thought it would be like. Alot of things I already knew and some I didn't. But I wanted it to throw in my knitting bag and be there when I'm having a brain freeze and need some extra help. I also love Vickie's sense of humor. I think it's similar to mine so I can really relate to it! I recommend it to any knitter.