Charted Knitting Designs,

Very helpful in advancing my understand of knitting with charts. Elements of many patterns are contained within this book.

This book is excellent. I bought this book at my local library's book sale last year for a dollar. It has the most amazing and unusual patterns in it and well worth the money. This is a must have for any serious knitter. The more challenging the patterns, the more I like the book. This has a lot of unusual knitting patterns that you typically do not see in recently published knitting books. There are 350 different stitches, many of which Barbara G. Walker devised herself. Chapter 1: Textured Fabrics Chapter 2: Twist Stitch Patterns Chapter 3: Cables Chapter 4: Closed-Ring Designs in Cabling (very unusual stitches) Chapter 5: Cable-Stitch Patterns Chapter 6: Lace Chapter 7: Lace Panels Chapter 8: Mosaic Patterns Chapter 9: Color Patterns Chapter 10: Uncharted Miscellany Chapter 11: Knitting Directions for Illustrated Samples

Charted knitting Designs is divided into the following sections: textured fabrics, twist stitch pattern, cables, closed ring designs in cabling, cable-stitch patterns, lace panels, mosaic patterns, color patterns, uncharted miscellany and knitting directions for illustrated samples. The last chapter showcases a few simple projects that use patterns found in the book. All other chapter include a photo of the finished knitted texture and a chart (or row by row directions in the non-charted section) of the pattern. This makes visualizing a finished product so much easier and makes it easy to thumb through and look at textures. The photos cover a big enough section of fabric to really get a feel for them. The patterns show all kinds. My favorite was one called "The Mask" in the uncharted section. It allows you to knit a theater mask into a piece of fabric. You increase and then decrease for the nose, so it sticks out for a 3-D mask. This book is hardly a must-have (because there are so many knitting books out there), but it is very good for visualizing what a finished product will look like.

I enjoy creating my own designs. For much of my life I owned only two books -- A Treasury of Knitting Patterns and A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, both by Barbara G. Walker. Recently I have bought a number of other books including this one. Personally I love the charts -- I've always found them easier to follow than the written English. If you like to create your own sweater designs, then this book is a must

IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE READING WRITTEN KNITTING INSTRUCTIONS THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. CHARTS WITH EASY EXPLAINATIONS YOU CAN VISABLEY SEE WHAT IT IS YOU HAVE TO DO WITHOUT GUESS WORK. BY FAR THE BEST BOOK TO HELP YOU DESIGN ANY KNITTED GARMENT!!!!!

I have been designing sweaters since 1968, I have found this book to be the absolute best. I am dislexic.... and reading volumes of abreviated knitting discriptions is not fun to me... this book iliminates all that by charting every thing in easy to read visable ways. For doing extensive cable patterns to color design this is the book for anyone fed up with reading the means of each stich seperatley... I would'nt be with out this book for anything... an absolute must to anyone's library of creative crafts...