Cast On, Bind Off: 211 Ways to Begin and End Your Knitting [Kindle Edition] Author: Cap Sease | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BGHS0I0 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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The search for the perfect cast on and bind off is over! Now, in one extraordinary book, have at your fingertips more than 120 ways to cast on and more than 80 ways to bind off. This beautifully organized treasury is ideal for all skill levels.
- Find each technique presented with step-by-step written instructions, clear how-to illustrations, and a photo of the finished edge
- Learn the advantages and disadvantages of each method, including suggestions for when to use it
- Discover workhorse and specialty cast ons and bind offs for colorwork, cuffs, ruffles, fringe, lace buttonholes, and more
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- File Size: 9632 KB
- Print Length: 160 pages
- Publisher: Martingale; Spi edition (August 21, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BGHS0I0
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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This is a lovely and helpful book. I am a very experienced knitter, and have found this a useful reference book that even includes cast ons and bind offs I have never seen nor used before. The written directions are clear and for those of us who are visual learners, they are accompanied by very nice, (large) easily "read" illustrations. There is also a sharp photo of every technique which is easy to see and helps you to know if this is a cast-on or bind-off that would work for the project you are undertaking. (See images on the site). I have tried several of the techniques prior to writing this review just to be sure that the directions make sense and everything went smoothly.
I particularly like the three tables at the beginning of the book. One gives a list of purposes for cast ons (and one for bind offs), so that if you are looking for a durable cast-on or an elastic bind off, you know which type to use. The third table is the best, because it lists cast ons and bind offs that will create matching edges (...And you have a choice of nine different types!)
Although the book advertises (more than) 120 cast ons and (more than) 80 bind-offs, one should remember that it includes many variations on techniques along with cast ons/bind offs for very particular uses, so you should not expect 120 cast ons for every occasion. It is a strength that this book addresses particular needs (as well as general ones), for example circular cast ons, sock toe cast ons, two stranded knitting cast ons, decorative bind offs, etc.
The book is spiral bound and large (pages are 8.5 by 11" (21 x 27.5cm)) so those that found the pictures unclear or too small in the book on 54 Cast Ons/Bind Off should be much happier.
I have had this book for a few months now. Initially I started out with a 3-star review, which I have decided to come back and bring down to a 2-star review. The original review is below the break, but I am adding additional complaints as I am increasingly disappointed in the production and editing of this book:
First, there is no pictorial overview. This blows my mind. There are apparently 211 techniques scattered throughout the book, but there is no graphical thumbnail index to glance through. This means you really have no idea what is in this book except that you flip page-by-page to visually compare CO/BOs. Ridiculous. The thumbnails they use to simply adorn whitespace in the table of contents, intro pages, and on the front/back covers are the same graphics repeated over and over; they don't even switch it up (terrible marketing on the editor's part), so in the places it might have been possible to get an at-a-glance overview, they failed. They could have fit 20-25 fairly large thumbnails on a single page. What pattern book does not have an at-a-glance overview?
Secondly, reinforcing my complaints about missing page numbers and poor editing: in the very beginning of the book, page 5, you find How to Choose a Cast On or Bind Off. The first 3 sentences state: "In choosing which to use, you need to keep several things in mind. Function is probably the most important consideration. What's the purpose of the edge and how will it be used?" The editor shoots herself in the foot here by claiming the most important consideration is function and then on the following charted page, provides absolutely zero page number references (see more on this below).
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