Reviews

I was disappointed with this book. I liked the beaded beads on the front cover and when I realized the patterns were not included in the book I threw it away. I already know how to do peyote and was interested in some good beaded bead patterns. This book shows technique but not the specific patterns.

This has been a very informative book. It's designs and patterns entertain both beginners and more advanced peyote stitchers. I highly recommend this book to all. Lovely pictures and a easy to understand directions. I do wish that some of the extra pictures had directions but once one understands the basics its a go and try it from there. Kimberley Neff

title says it all, the more they publish the more i will be collecting! excellent books!! i always love to see the color combinations others choose.

This book is great for both beginners and intermediate levels, at the beginning of the book it has instructions on variouse stitch techniques, I have half done one of the projects which is going really well!! I bought this book for beaded beads and have not got the hang of those yet, I will need to concentrate a bit more I think...

Fantastic book. AWESOME patterns. What a way to spend the winter months snuggled up with this book and do some of the designs. Worth every cent.

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I admire this book and am inspired by the beautiful photographs. I agree with the positive reviews. But I object to the lack of charts. Without charts the concept of a pattern is harder to grasp. For example, the seed stitch is simple concept if the instructions are: row 1: (RS) *k1 p1* repeat to end; row 2: purl the knit stitches and knit the purl stitches. Instead Vogue specifies "(multiple of 2 sts plus 1" row 1 (RS)K1 *P1 K1* rep from * to end row 2: Repeat row 1." So, for stitches I plan to use in this lovely book, I will make my own charts. Charts make the concepts jump off the page.

I decided to check this out of the library before purchasing and I'm really glad I did. Found several errors, including a major one on my favorite pattern, the bobbles and vines. Found the descriptions at times difficult to follow. Would have been easier to follow a chart. My interest was in the lace patterns and this for me was disappointing. Did not really focus on the other chapters but perhaps for some those would be useful. I do love the yarns they chose.

...then this is a book for you. The editors went through and found all the inventive stitches from 20 years of Vogue Knitting. These aren't the entire projects that were previous published, just the stitches that went into them. They'll inspire you to try new things in socks, scarves, etc. What you need to go with this book are some of the universal pattern books that are available to give you an idea of how to use them in projects.

I love the look of this book---the pages look so clean and clear, and I like the big pictures of each stitch knitted up, so I can get a pretty good idea of what it will look like done. There is a big variety of stitches, and it's fun to leaf through and decide which one to try next. However, I have a few complaints! I wish there were more fairly basic stitches that would be nice to have all in one place, and less odd stitches you will probably never actually use, like one that puckers up the knitting and one that looks like a new knitters mistake (condo stitch, I believe it is!) I think this might be because the patterns were all once in the Vogue knitting magazine, as a monthly column, and you probably have to put more exotic patterns in a magazine than you would in a book collection. Also, I always tend at first to think it's just me making mistakes, but at least 2 stitch patterns I tried were just plain not right---the rows didn't add up to the number of stitches called for, and I would end up with too many or not enough stitches at the end of a row to do what is called for, even when I counted over and over to make sure I had the number of stitches I was supposed to have. The book is also divided up oddly---I have tried and tried to figure out why one section is called "Travelling" and I just can't---are they good stitches to use when on a trip? They seem about like other lace designs to me. However, I do just love having this book around! It's such a nice big clear looking book, and it's inspiring to look at!

A lot of patterns for the price -- in-depth descriptions of something like 450 different patterns! Great addition to my knitting book library, I was not disappointed. The book also includes true-to-size, high resolution photographs of each pattern done up in a swatch; if you already own the Vogue Book of Knitting, then you already know the Vogue books do really well with their photos. These also really help when learning.