The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes and Gauges

Easy to follow and understand tables for a wide variety of sweater styles, gauges, sizes. You swatch your choice of yarn, determine what gauge you're getting, and use the tables to choose the size based on the measurements of the intended recipient. Pick your neckline, sleeve length, shoulder treatment, etc. Included is a wealth of "tips" that also help the beginner. So if you can't find the "perfect" pattern, make your own! It's so much fun and you can customize to your heart's content.

I bought this for my mother. She has knitted for as long as I can remember. She had been looking for a book of sweater patterns and was so impressed with this. It's easy to read (she's in her 80's), and she went on and on about all the styles and size choices! She was also impressed with the layout of the book...you can take parts from different styles and put them together with other parts to create your own design. I call this Frankensweater! HA! The spiral bound option is perfect! The book stays open and lays flat for easy viewing. She has referred to this as the bible of sweater knitting. Given her experience, I'd say you will be impressed!

This is a great book if you want to design your own sweater. It basically is a buffet of shape and construction options, including drop-shoulder, modified drop-shoulder, set-in sleeve, saddle-shoulder, raglan, and seamless yoke. There's a section on expanding your options, and there are directions, in a chart format, for several different gauges (chart as in a chart listing all the different options, not a chart of stitches... hope that makes sense). The directions are very clear and the back of the book has directions for techniques such as the three-needle bind-off, grafting, etc.The downside to this book is that the sweaters pictured are rather large-gauge sweaters that often do not fit the model very well and so look dated. (I'm thinking particularly of the modified drop shouldered sweater that makes the poor model look like she is being eaten by a snuffleupagus... that she looks so happy to be wearing it is a credit to her. Maybe the studio was really cold.) My guess is that a LOT of sweaters had to be knit for this book, and knitting in a large gauge sped up the process. This is somewhat understandable but unfortunate. Realize that you certainly don't have to knit them that way: directions are given for sweaters with innumerable amounts of ease and plenty of different fits, so the knitter can certainly do better than this. The sweaters pictured are merely examples and not meant to be "this is how your sweater will look." The pictures are the ONLY reason I gave this book four stars as opposed to five because I believe a knitting book's pictures should make people want to knit the patterns.Other than this, however, the book is an invaluable resource for those who want to get away from simply knitting patterns and wish to be creative in their knitting. And the spiral binding is a HUGE plus... I believe more knitting books should be designed this way, because who wants to have to prop their book open and destroy the bidning? I'm currently knitting a British Fisherman's Gansey and several notes in this book helped me a lot.

Ann Budd’s Knitter’s Handy Book of Sweaters has directions for making a basic sweater in six different types of sweater styles. She has the instructions so you can make any of those sweaters with any size needles and yarn and in any garment size from infants to adult chest size 54”. There are also “Copy Cat” patterns at the end of each section with directions to construct a lovely sweater designed by a well-known, respected designer who created that pattern using the formula for that sweater style given in that chapter.It’s a great book that gives the knitter a blank canvas with the hardest part of sweater design, developing the numbers for the pattern in the size you want to knit, so all you have to do is have fun choosing the yarn, colors and tweaking the details to make the sweater truly yours! I have all her books and I use them!I can’t recommend this book highly enough!

I've had this book for years. Just bought one for my daughter. It's is great to allow you to design your own sweaters or alter a pattern you already have. The multiple guages allows you to make any yarn work.

I was excited to get this book as I like to design my own patterns. I followed one of the patterns and the sweater I made ended up rather big. I think there are some mathematic assumptions made in the master patterns that are generally correct, but may need some readjusting as the knitting happens. For example, in the pattern for a set-in-sleeves sweater (cardigan version), the width at the top of the sleeves is very deep, and the length is way too long. This is more of a tailoring issue, but that should be addressed in the book more. In other words, it would be great if there was a chapter about 'how to customize patterns to fit your particular shape). It doesn't really address (well, at least) how to adjust patterns to fit different body types, or where typically those adjustments are made on the sweater.What DOES work well is that the patterns DO make sense. They are a bit complex to follow (you'll have to leaf through about 10-12 pages as you're working the different parts of the sweater). Also, the math works (I did end up with the proper amount of stitches that the book told me I should end up with at the end of each part.) I also found the different parts fairly easy to put together after I had blocked them.But all in all, I think planning, blocking, seaming, finishing, are all equal parts of the final design and need to be addressed. I think the book could do with expansion on these other areas. It's not a bad introduction, but I ended up more curious about pattern making, and am now starting to make my own patterns as a result.

Great for beginenr knitters

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O livro é perfeito, podemos construir qualquer modelo de sweater de qualquer tamanho. Gostei muito!

Seems really easy to use.

super