Title: The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn Purchase Item Manufacturer: Potter Craft List Price: $30.00 Our Price: $18.54
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The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn by Potter Craft someone explains felting to me
The more you know about yarn, the more yarn you need. I thought I knew a lot, but this book really clears it up for me. I don't know that I need to own this one, but it's surely a worthwhile read.
The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn by Potter Craft Good Resource for the Ridiculously Curious Knitter
The book has a fabulous lot of information about yarn and how to use it. I would recommend it for any serious knitter, especially if the knitter is interested in spinning. The included patterns are also charming and tempting, especially the snail-motif mittens. Enjoy!
The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn by Potter Craft As good as everyone said!
I enjoyed reading this book. While I may never get to use all those wonderful fibers, it has caused me to branch out more. Right now I am waiting for some yarn to arrive that is 70% merino and 30% silk--I can hardly wait! The source of many fibers is discussed, as well as how they act, and what their good and weak points are. If you are at all interested in yarn, you'll like this book. And don't forget to check out her website KnittersReview.
The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn by Potter Craft The definitive yarn guide
This is an essential reference that should be on the bookshelf of any serious knitter, crocheter, or yarn lover. I have been knitting for 35 years, and this is the first book I have come across that explains why certain yarn types work well with a particular stitch pattern and/or garment construction and why other yarn types wouldn't. Ms. Parkes' book is well researched, information-packed and thorough, and is worth buying just for the Maine Morning Mitts pattern, which will set off your Noro Kureyon, La Lana or Malabrigo in fine style!
The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn by Potter Craft must have
every knitter and fiber enthusialst should have this book. It is so educational on fibers and also has some great patterns. Well worth the price! Ms Parkes not only gives you information on fibers, but plies, uses, and little tips on how to use the fibers. Helpful for spinners as well! LOVE
The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn by Potter Craft Product Description
Not all yarns are alike. Some make our hearts and hands sing, some get the job done without much fanfare, and some cause nothing but frustration and disappointment. The gorgeous pair of socks that emerged from their first bath twice as long as when they went in. The delicate baby sweater that started pilling before it even came off the needles. The stunning colorwork scarf that you can’t wear because the yarn feels like sandpaper against your neck. If only there were a way to read a skein and know how it would behave and what it wanted to become before you invested your time, energy, and money in it. Now there is! With The Knitter’s Book of Yarn, you’ll learn how to unleash your inner yarn whisperer. In these pages, Clara Parkes provides in-depth insight into a vast selection of yarns, giving you the inside stories behind the most common fiber types, preparations, spins, and ply combinations used by large-scale manufacturers and importers, medium-sized companies, boutique dye shops, community spinneries, and old-fashioned sheep farms. And, because we learn best by doing, Parkes went to some of the most creative and inquisitive design minds of the knitting world to provide a wide assortment of patterns created to highlight the qualities (and minimize the drawbacks) of specific types of yarns. The Knitter’s Book of Yarn will teach you everything you need to know about yarn: How it’s made, who makes it, how it gets to you, and what it longs to become. The next time you pick up a skein, you won’t have to wonder what to do with it. You’ll just know–the way any yarn whisperer would.

Step 2 Mike Lee: “There comes a time when every apprentice must pack up their meager tools and leave their master’s employ. So begins the long road of the journeyman, whose turn it is now to ply their newly learned craft in the hopes that one day they might meet their old master’s eye, a master themselves. For me, that time has come.” Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:14:32 GMT