A Knitter's Template: Easy Steps to Great-Fitting Garments

I love this approach! Good for basic techniques and allows you to explore differen ways of using stiches and gauge to accomplish what seems to be far more complicated garments. Shows you how to use different options in one pattern to create different looks. The charts make it easy to figure out how to plan your chosen garment. Good reference book for all levels of knitters.

I rate this book right up there with The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns. One of the best tools yet! Kudos to Barry Klein, Laura Bryant and all the other contributors to this wonderful book. It is nice to see books that more advanced AND beginners can use equally.There are gauge and measurement charts for a variety of yarns and pattern styles and garment sizes, pluse some basic well written patterns that allow for lots of embellishments and customization by the knitter.Buy it and enjoy it! You won't be sorry.

The title of this book is modestly deceiving; there are not only templates for garments, there are examples to use eyelash and fur yarn. Some of the patterns are "fur" jackets, long coats, jackets with cuffs and more. If you like to do stylish knitting, and you like to shop for yarn, not entirely sure what to do with it, this book is excellent. With the templates in hand, you can create a unique garment. Particularly recommended for people who love novelty yarns.

We have a knitting store in manhattan. we are extremely selective about the books we carry. everyone who works in the store owns a copy and we suggest it to all of our customers. this book is invaluable as it allows you to adjust and create patterns. the format carefully takes you through the entire process from selecting yarns, to determining gauge, to creating a pattern. in particular, it gives you great confidence and supports the use of a wide range of yarns, from the traditional to the novelty. this book also encourages holding many yarns together for a truly unique garment.we suggest this book for all levels of experience.

I loved this book. I think the authors out did themselves. I am a knitter that tends to buy & hoard yarn and figure out what to do with it later; or see a pattern and wait to find a yarn. This often leads to the problem of mismatched gauges and needle sizes. I'm short with a broad back and so I generally fit in between pattern sizes. I apparently knit looser than most because I rarely use the suggested needle size for a garment. I am working on my second garment using this book and found the preconstruction work quick and painless. I had already gotten my measurements for the first garment and could just move on. The yardage chart is very helpful and not in every book.The photos are beautiful-especially of the yarns themselves. I find this very inspiring. I love to use novelty yarns but sometimes only as an accent or to blend. The authors seem to understand this.I think I am a pretty clever knitter but the authors have ideas and suggestions I am not sure I would have come up with on my own; like the "stripe sequence" in the Arroyo Avenue sweater as well as several in the Changing the Tone chapter.I don't think I will ever have to worry about finding the right pattern again! I will make my own with complete confidence that the end product will fit perfect and look the way I want it to.