Vogue Knitting on the Go! Beginner Basics [Hardcover]

Trisha Malcolm (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Vogue Knitting on the Go! | Publication Date: September 28, 2003

By mastering one skill at a time, you will build your repertoire and confidence and work your way up to more challenging projects. Practice the various techniques on easy-to-make scarves, hats, sweaters, baby booties, blankets and other accessories. Full-color photographs illustrate every project, and detailed information about tools, supplies, and stitches start you on your way. Ideal for the complete novice, and for classes.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Sixth&Spring Books; 1 edition (September 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931543313
• ISBN-13: 978-1931543316
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #731,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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69 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice but expensive projects, October 25, 2003

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Lontrinha (San Diego, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vogue Knitting on the Go! Beginner Basics (Hardcover)

I like the ideas in this book but some of the projects are just too expensive. The first scarf requires you to buy six skeins of Colinette's Point 5 yarn which costs twenty dollars a skein. I think that it's a silly suggestion no matter how easy the big wool is. The book is also hard to keep open while you are trying to knit so you need to use some kind of book weight. It would have been a perfect book to be spiral bound. For the amount of projects it has, the price is right, though.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book!, April 4, 2005

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Bookratt "bookratt" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vogue Knitting on the Go! Beginner Basics (Hardcover)

Use a WPI tool (wraps per inch tool) or simply compare the weight (oz/grams) and length (meters/yds) as well as number of plys (strands) in the yarns, to substitute your own yarns for the more expensive yarns listed in the instructions. Use what you already have in your stash and believe me, you will use this book over and over again! Great projects, perfect for the beginning knitter (like me, though I was a crocheter from waaaaay back). I actually made something, knitting for the first time, using this book. I did "cheat", in that I bought a cd-rom from Joanne fabrics for about $3.50 that was called Knitting Made Easy about a week before, and watched it first. Then, voila! I really got my knittin' mittens on and off I went. Wow! Great little hardcover book which packs a lot into a little space, and is the perfect size to throw in your knitting bag and take with you everywhere. It is useful, inspirational and affordable--just like the two others I've gotten in this series called Knitting on the Go, by Vogue.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Alright and nothing beyond that., October 29, 2005

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Annie Blue (San Anselmo, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vogue Knitting on the Go! Beginner Basics (Hardcover)

The diagrams are well done and there is an excellent explanation of blocking. My biggest issue with this book is that it claims to be aimed at beginners but the patterns are not written as simply as they could be; in one pattern it says to decrease your 60 stitches three times. Shouldn't that be something like - k10, k2tog, k20, k2tog, k20, k2tog, k10? One of the skills of knitting that most people need to be guided through is the math.