Winter Knits Made Easy: 40 Fabulous Patterns

by D.K. Publishing

Packed with patterns that make cable, fair isle, and textured knitting accessible to everyone, Winter Knits Made Easy contains step-by-step tutorials and straightforward projects for the family and home. Winter Knits Made Easy features beautiful and inspiring photographs of every completed project accompanied by knitted swatches, yarn samples, and a choice of color ways that encourages embellishment and creativity. Projects cable jacket, crewneck sweater, beanie, gloves, socks, scarf, patchwork blanket, and more.

Genres: Nonfiction, Knitting, Crafts

256 pages, Paperback

First published August 18, 2014

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Ligaya · Rating 2 out of 5]

Likely a good book for a new knitter but it's bulky and doesn't lie flat if you want to use it as a reference as you're actually working. The projects themselves are clean and modern with a nice mix of color work, more complicated stitch work like cables, and more complicated shapes like socks and pullover sweaters. (No lacework, though.) I'm an experienced knitter, so didn't look through the Tools & Equipment nor Techniques sections but there are plentiful color photos and graphics for color work though the knitting directions are given row by row when some projects could be easily charted out. (Another skill for a beginner to learn.)

[PoligirlReads · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5. Eh, this was just fine. I can't quite figure out how a book so thick can have so few patterns. The ones that were there weren't particularly special. It's fine for a library copy, but not anything I'd want to add to my knitting book collection.

[Michele · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beautiful designs,

Slouchy Hat : Made with Debbie Bliss Rialto Aran in A: 18 red and B: 29 Mid Grey

Using A cast on 110. Join in the round. Place stitch marker for start of round. Work seven rows in st st (knit every one). Change to yarn B, and knit to end. Work 12 rounds in K1, P1.

Will copy instructions out of book.

[Mckinley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice. Nothing I want to make hence 2 atars

[Susie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Found a handful of patterns to try.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

No projects here for me but the general instructions with pictures are excellent.