Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook

It's the essential guide for chicks with sticks--from the tools of the trade to the knitty-gritty of techniques and patterns, all with easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated techniques: - Stockinette stitch, rib stitch, seed stitch. Increasing and decreasing. All the bells and whistles: fringes, tassels, cables, intarsia, crab stitch, and Fair Isle.- Plus the stitch doctor's own special bag of tricks and how to hook up with other knitters.- After the how-to comes the why-to: forty hip, stylish patterns, as good for beginners as they are for purly pros. Table of Contents:Part One: Stitch 'n BitchChapter 1:Take Back the Knit: Why Young Women are Taking up Knitting Once More Chapter 2:What a Girl Wants, What a Girl Needs: Tools of the Trade Chapter 3:The Knitty-Gritty: Learning to Cast On, Bind Off, and Knit Chapter 4:Purl, too: Learning to Purl and Make Simple Stitch Patterns Chapter 5:Shaping Up: Learning to Increase and Decrease Chapter 6:Finishing School: Learning to Sew Seams, Pick