Are you ready to draft your own patterns? Or maybe you just want to be competent at making well-fitting alterations? These books can help.
BEST DESIGN BOOKS
knitting pattern essentials
by Sally Melville
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Sally Melville reveals the secrets to creating or modifying a pattern so the finished project looks and fits exactly how you want it to. Pattern drafting has never been easier to understand as this book breaks down each skill.
knitwear design workshop: a comprehensive guide to handknits
by Shirley Paden
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This book explores the techniques involved in designing hand-knitted garments with a perfect individual fit. It is geared towards knitters who want to design their own garments, experiment with garment shaping, write commercial patterns, or simply want to understand how to make minor modifications to commercial patterns.
the handy book of top-down sweaters
by Ann Budd
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This guide is from the Knitter's Handy Book series. Answering to an interest in knitting sweaters from the top down and knitting seamless sweaters that require little finishing, this book offers instructions for knitting five basic sweater types: circular yoke, raglan, modified-drop shoulder, set-in sleeve, and saddle shoulder.
6000+ PULLOVER possibilities
by Melissa Leapman
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Inside, the prolific author and knitwear designer takes the most basic pullover sweater pattern and shows knitters how to customize it using every possible sleeve, neckline, or body shape in yarn weights from Super Fine to Bulky and from sizes XS to 4XL. You’re sure to find the perfect combination for your style and body type.
The Knitter’s Handy book of patterns
by Ann Budd
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Also from the Knitter’s Handy Book series, this guide offers charts and plans for making infant through adult-sized projects. This book provides knitters with a complete resource of more than 350 patterns for hats, scarves, vests, sweaters, mittens, gloves, and socks that are written for multiple gauges to accommodate all weights of yarn.
