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#   Mastering the Obvious: 101 Tips and Techniques to Enhance Your Knitting
by Lilith House


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Product Details
  • Paperback: 48 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.25 x 11.00 x 8.75
  • Publisher: New Yoga Press; (April 1, 2003)
  • ISBN: 3141572503
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars Based on 3 reviews. Write a review.
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: 9,563

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Book Description
At long last, the book for knitters of all levels of experience and education! This is the very first book dedicated to expounding the simple mysteries of knitting, from casting on to binding off and everything in between. Here's a sampling of the tips and techniques that will enhance your knitting experience:
  • emergency measure #1: how a crochet hook can help you pick up a dropped stitch
  • circular needle trick #1: using a single extra-long circular needle to knit a sock
  • how to tell the difference between a knit stitch and a purl stitch
  • I-cord, but even more I: making knitted cord with dpns, circular needles, and even straight needles
  • circular needle trick #2: how knitting on a circular needle becomes a tube, and how to prevent this
  • the secrets to converting women's sock patterns for use by men
  • emergency measure #2: knitting cables when you've lost your cable needle
  • hats that fit: the relationship between head circumference and hat size
  • circular needle trick #3: using multiple circular needles to knit an extra-long row
  • dpn power: using 3, 4, 5 or more double-pointed needles at once
  • licence to print money: write your own book about knitting techniques
  • converting knitting instructions for lefties
The author answers all of those subtle, almost unfathomably moronic questions that any new or experienced knitter might have, while sharing self-congratulatory gems about her own knitting triumphs.

About the Author
Lilith House has been leaving her double-pointed needles on the sofa for over twenty years, and she still hasn't learned her lesson despite five trips to the emergency room. A firm believer in self-empowerment through knitting, she has been a knitting instructor for more than a decade and has appeared on several talk shows, where she is reknown for her strict, my-way-or-the-highway approach with beginning knitters. Lilith also maintains her own knitting mailing list on the Internet dedicated to mastering the techniques taught in her book. Membership is restricted to knitters who think she is a genius.

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Avg. Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars A must have if you want to avoid strangling yourself with your own circular needles.., March 28, 2003
Reviewer: redhartlovr from Arlen, TX USA
I love this book. It's the only one I keep by my knitting chair (the one that I keep my dpns on, LOL!!!). My only complaint is that it's not pet resistant, LOL!!! My cat found it the other night and started chewing the spine. We had to rush her to the vet to have the book pieces removed, but the vet said that the real concern was that Sheba had eaten rather a lot of the yarn that I leave lying around my knitting chair, and that it was tangled in her intestines. I can only imagine what it will look like when it all comes out, LOL!!! That would have been a handy warning to have in the book, about cats I mean, because operations are expensive. In conclusion, I wish the book had more pictures.

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 stars I would like to buy this book, March 14, 2003
Reviewer: sorghum@aol.com from 3145B Orchard Grove Drive, Springfield, NJ USA
Hello, I would like to purchase this book please. My credit card number is as follows: 4503194932053331. The expiration date is February 2004. My address is above. Please visit my website to see pictures of my children and inspirational stories.

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