Knit Fix: Problem Solving for Knitters

I was so excited when this book arrived in the mail today. I immediately flipped through it to see if it was what I was looking for. I was so excited to find it was better then I hoped! I'm a new knitter and was desperately looking for a book that would be chock full of photos and diagrams (step-by-step, not just beginning and end). Knit fix has plenty of both. Everything is very clearly labeled and highlighted. The Table... Read Full Review

I taught myself to knit from books when I was a teenager. Now that I'm in my 50s I've knitted for many years, but still didn't know some of the common "tricks of the trade" I might have learned if I had been taught by an old pro or if I had taken classes. This book fills in the gaps and gives me lots of ideas about how to work around problems. It also increased my understanding of some technical details of knitting that I... Read Full Review

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... Read Full Review

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... Read Full Review

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... Read Full Review