Knit Fix: Problem Solving for Knitters (Spiral-bound)

by Lisa Kartus (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This is a book that every knitter should carry in their knitting bag."  —Knitting News

 

"This book will come to your rescue more times than you'll want to admit."  —

Knitter's Review

"Newbie-friendly? If this isn't, what is? Plenty of swatch photos and illustrations show the before and after of accidental stitching."  —KnitSimple presented by Vogue Knitting

"Knitters, rejoice. Lisa Kartus knows all our boo-boos before we make them, and is here to liberate us."  —Spindlicity.com

"For me, a knitter...in denial...the best chapter is 'Extreme Fixes: Altering When You're Done Knitting.'"  —Knitty.com

"One of the nicest features of this book is that it shows you in pictures what the mistakes look like!"  —The Compulsive Reader

"Novices and experienced knitters alike will find guidance, instruction, innovations and solutions for all their knitting challenges."  —Decorating Digest Craft & Home Projects

"A helpful resource for lots of knitting problems...written in a humorous yet caring way."  —KnittingNewsCast.com

Product Description

Dropped and twisted stitches, too-small button holes, and mis-crossed cables are only a few of the knitting dilemmas tackled in this humorous and useful guide. Beginners and seasoned knitters alike are promised that learning from mistakes improves technique and inspires personal style—and that sometimes the best solution is just to let a mistake stand. To head off problems before they start, the sturdy, spiral-bound book explains the correct way to cast on and bind off, decipher charts, choose fibers, calculate yardage, join yarns, work with multicolor designs, and—for more experienced knitters—how to alter a finished piece or customize a pattern.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 112 pages
• Publisher: Interweave Press (September 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596680113
• ISBN-13: 978-1596680111
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #34,215 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

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57 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A boon for beginners, August 10, 2006

By	Clara H. Parkes "Publisher, Knitter's Review" (New England, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you're a relatively new knitter without a seasoned 24 x 7 knitterly support staff at your disposal, this is the book for you. It will save you hours of grief and help you identify and fix many mistakes without frogging your project all the way back to zero.

Kartus, a seasoned knitter and excellent writer, patiently walks you through the very basics of goof repair. Undoing stitches, unraveling entire rows, and specifically targeting one or two mis-formed stitches several rows below. Problems are illustrated in clear photographs, and fixes shown in illustrations.

Kartus also goes deeper into issues like pucker-free Intarsia, fixing color mistakes in Fair Isle, and even re-turning a cable that you either forgot to turn or turned in the wrong direction - always showing just one or two common fixes.

Most experienced knitters will have already tackled many of the problem scenarios listed in this book -- and they may even have a larger list of their own fixes. But for relative newcomers who haven't yet faced the slings and arrows of outrageous knitterly fortune, this book will be your new friend.

50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent source of needed info...., September 10, 2006

By	Wolf in Sheep's Clothing "Up Late Every NIght... (in the dry, hot, dark of the desert) - See all my reviews

I am both dyslexic and left handed -- and after many years of false starts at learning to knit, I finally found a very patient woman at the local yarn store who stuck it out with me until all the left, right, back, front, yarn-in-back, yarn-in-front basics took hold.

What I was not prepared for was the continuing confusion of slants, slips, drops, and other directional-dependent problems that inevitably occur throughout a project.

After digging through all the books at the local library, the yarn store, and the local book stores, this book jumped off the shelf at me the first day it arrived after publication -- and voila! A book written in un-confuseable English, with an abundance of clear and concise illustrations!

It is spiral bound, small enough to carry in my bag and go wherever I take my knitting.

Another Interweave Press book -- "Compendium of Finishing Techniques..." is the perfect counterpart to this book -- also spiral bound and compact, it covers the seams, attaching, finishing/polishing info that keeps me fromknitting a 27 foot long mitten.

I have 4 very widely recommended beginning knitters reference books on the shelf, but this is the book I keep at hand.

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars finally a useful "fix it" book, October 26, 2006

By	L. Ertel (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is the best "fix it" book I've ever come across. Lots of books tell you, "If you dropped a stitch then do this..." or "If you twisted your stitches then do this..." and so on. But most of the time, for me anyway, I know there's a mistake, but I don't have any idea what I've done- if I did then I wouldn't have done it in the first place!

This book is layed out differently. It has FULL COLOR photographs, not just drawings, and says "If your knitting looks like this (see picture) then you probably made this xyz mistake... and this is how you fix it. Then it goes on to explain what you probably accidentally did to cause the mistake and how you can go about avoiding making the same mistake in the future. Excellent! And everything is written in very simple easy to understand language, unlike some books who use so much knitting jargon it's like they're written in code. Plus, this book covers simple errors, like dropped stitches, to complicated problems, like stranding in intarsia, and everything in between- making it useful for all skill levels of knitters.

I checked this book out from the library initially and was so impressed that i bought a copy for myself and my grandma immediately. I would highly and unreservedly reccommend this book to anyone who has ever made a mistake of any kind when they were knitting.