Overview
Discover the perfect beginning and ending for every knitting project with this easy to follow instruction book. Each technique is combined with step-by-step photography to help you create edges that are tighter, looser, stretchier, or lacier. No matter what you're knitting, Leslie Ann Bestor has the cast on and bind off that will give your project the perfect edge.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781603427241
- ISBN-10: 1603427244
- Publisher: Storey Publishing
- Publish Date: June 2012
- Dimensions: 7 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.85 pounds
- Page Count: 216
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Cast On, Bind Off offers a first-rate reference for two important steps in knitting. Author Leslie Ann Bestor rightly assumes that most knitters “have a favorite cast on or bind off, and it is probably the one they learned from the person who taught them.” Eventually, however, a wider world beckons as one looks for new options for starting and finishing a project. After all, the “edges set the stage for the piece as a whole.” And here it is, that wider world, handily divided into 54 step-by-step methods guaranteed to “take your knitting to a whole new level.” Each technique is graded by characteristics—stretchy or firm; subtle or chunky; invisible or rolled—and by what particular project it is designed for: lace, shawls, bags, types of ribbing. Photos illustrate every step as well as the top, bottom and side views of finished examples. Cast On, Bind Off encourages exploration and delivers clear instructions, assuring you “will never regret investing time in the beginnings and endings of your projects.”
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The next level of knitting
Cast On, Bind Off offers a first-rate reference for two important steps in knitting. Author Leslie Ann Bestor rightly assumes that most knitters “have a favorite cast on or bind off, and it is probably the one they learned from the person who taught them.” Eventually, however, a wider world beckons as one looks for new options for starting and finishing a project. After all, the “edges set the stage for the piece as a whole.” And here it is, that wider world, handily divided into 54 step-by-step methods guaranteed to “take your knitting to a whole new level.” Each technique is graded by characteristics—stretchy or firm; subtle or chunky; invisible or rolled—and by what particular project it is designed for: lace, shawls, bags, types of ribbing. Photos illustrate every step as well as the top, bottom and side views of finished examples. Cast On, Bind Off encourages exploration and delivers clear instructions, assuring you “will never regret investing time in the beginnings and endings of your projects.”
ARTISTIC INSPIRATION
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