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Stitch `n Bitch - The Knitter`s Handbook
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From the back of the book:
"Knit Happens
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."
Patterns include:
- Coney Island Fireworks Scarf
- Punk Rock Backpack
- Cricket's Technicolor Techno Cozies (for cell phones, iPods, & palm pilots)
- Loopy Velez Cowl
- Pippi Kneestockngs
- Big Bad Baby Blanket
- To Dye For Sweater
- Princess Snowball Cat Bed
- Queen of Hearts Bikini
- Cape Mod
- Tank Girl
Book: soft cover, 248 pages, 40 patterns which include a list of the skills required to make the item & the page number of the how-to for each skill & colour photograph of each project.
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