400 Knitting Stitches: A Complete Dictionary of Essential Stitch Patterns

400 Knitting Stitches: A Complete Dictionary of Essential Stitch Patterns by Potter Craft is an incredible resource for anyone who loves knitting and wants to expand their creativity. I really appreciate how organized and detailed this book is. Having hundreds of stitch patterns all in one place makes it easy to find inspiration for new projects or experiment with different textures and designs. What I enjoy most about this book is that it works well for both learning and creative planning. The instructions are clear, and the stitch photography helps you truly see the texture and detail before starting. Whether I’m looking for something simple and elegant or bold and textured, this book gives me endless ideas. As someone who enjoys fiber arts, I find myself reaching for this book often when I want to add something unique to my knitting projects. It’s informative, inspiring, and a valuable addition to any knitter’s library. I would definitely recommend it to beginners wanting to grow their skills as well as experienced knitters looking for fresh inspiration. My goal is to knit ALL 400 stitch patterns.

Excellent resource for the serious as well as novice knitter. Each of the 400 knitting stitches includes a photo and explanation of how to create the stitches for your own project. It also includes instruction for each of the types of stitches needed to complete the project that is easy to follow. So, if you don't know much beyond knit and purl, this book will show you how to do much more for some beautiful outcomes. I purchased the spiral bound version. There is a slight problem with this format in that the spiral holes do cut off some of the printed instructions. (A letter or more here and there in each explanation is pierced through by the spiral binding. For the most part however, you can still follow the instruction.) The spiral binding does make the book easier to handle when knitting the examples in the book since the book lays flat.

I love all the images, this is gonna be such a handy book!!!

Useful, fun to page through, lots of good ideas. Good price. Glad I bought it. Pluses: 400 stitch patterns, sample swatches, charts, and clearly written instructions. There are the most simple stitches and stitches I didn't even know. There's a good sample of simple knit-purl, cable, crossed, and openwork patterns. Knitters can create variations once the stitch pattern is explained. The paper cover has flaps that can be used as bookmarks. Minuses: I need a magnifying lense to read the charts. The size of the text could be larger; bold text could be used to highlight important content. The swatches use the same beige yarn, so there's no examples showing how yarn weight, color, or even stripes would affect the patterns appearance. There's also no text describing the pattern and suggesting uses.

Excellent: "400 Knitting Stitches" Potter Craft. I have 5 books on knitting cables. Not ONE of them shows how to knit the multiple rows that make up the entire cable; they only show the "cross", ie the 1 line of knitting in which the crossover occurs. Thankfully "400 Knitting Stitches" Potter Craft, includes ALL the lines of knitting/purling that make up the pattern I need to knit. Excellent photos. Excellent concise info on how to knit it. This book now allows me to create my own patterns. Most of us already have basic scarf patterns, basic sweater patterns. This book allows us to take those patterns to the next step and embellish as we wish with the type of embellishment we prefer.

Best book for newbies! I love this and highly recommend!

I am very glad I did NOT listen to a very long and NEGATIVE review of this book! I am a brand new knitter and even though many of the stitches are way beyond my skill level right now, I know that when I am ready to move on to the more advanced stitches they are just waiting for me in this great resource. I like and appreciate how the book is organized. The pictures are very clear and show great detail of the stitches. There are diagrams and yes, they are small but not impossible to read or access for me. The cover shows very beautiful colored swatches which is what first caught my attention to the book. The pictures of the stitches in the the book are shown in one cream color and some with cream and black, but this is not a problem for me because the detail and beauty of the stitches is plain and clear to me even when I take off my reading glasses and look at them! So, this is my humble, newbie knitter opinion of this book. For me, this is an excellent purchase that I am very happy with!

I just got this book. I like the size of it. Not too big, not too small so I think it'll be easy to carry out (of course, with a bag) though it'll most likely be on my bookcase for reference most of the times. The layout and design of the book is simple and reader friendly, I think. I haven't tried out the stitches yet since I just got it. But they seem clear enough. Good pictures for reference. Here are a few things right off the top of my head: the stitch patterns are interesting, and lovely. I can probably try out and use many of them easily for sweaters, tops, scarves, etc. I'll say very usable designs. BUT that being said, it's also not very intricate or spectacular. No WOW factor here. So you're really thinking to get extra creative and fancy, this might not be the book. I'm also a little annoyed by the fact that they included left and right versions of same type pattern as included in the number of 400 stitch patterns as though they are completely different. A bit misleading, since it'll probably boil down the actual number of different designs versus variations as only about 250 or 300 (estimate, since I didn't do the math, but really, there are many repeats of same pattern except they are of the mirror image). Given that, yes, they give different look when the pattern goes left or right, and I suppose one can use them in combination to make interesting designs, it is still misleading. That would've been the biggest complaint, other than the lack of complexity. But by no means are they boring patterns either. Simple can be really nice and fun to knit and wear too. And they are beautiful in their own rights. I look forward to knitting up many projects using these patterns.

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Excellent book for crwating your own textures in existing patterns or making a sampler blanket for example. Each stitch is described in English notation and with a chart of that is your preference, the pictures for each stitch are clear enough to make out pattern details and where the stitch is reversible the back of the work is also photographed. I have a good few knitting stitch and pattern books but note that the Japanese pattern books seem to be exclusively chart based which I find it impossible to work from except for Fairisle colour-work and the ones that are not based on charts seem to be be written in ‘new notation’ that appears to be becoming popular in US patterns but is not standardised or clear for many of us older knitters. This book however has clear English notation written instructions and a glossary of terms in the back for any uncommon acronyms, it is my go-to for a nice cable design or lacework pattern. The only minor criticism I have is the rows are all written along one long line of text. I am used to each new row instruction starting on a new line so I tend to write out the instructions in a notebook including the back rows (sometimes glossed over with just follow the lead of the previous row which can be confusing where there are cables to know what to k and what to p). This enables me to also record the number of edge stitches and repeats plus tally the number of row repeats as well, I noted that the ‘edge stitches’ and extra repeat stitches that you need to add at either end of the row can sometimes be a bit wrong so writing out the pattern by hand helps to avoid any mistakes from creeping into the work when a row contains multiple repeats of the pattern plus edge stitches.