Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom, with over 30 Fun Projects Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Isela Phelps Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0312366612 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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About the Author
ISELA PHELPS is the author the bestseller Loom Knitting Primer, and other titles in the popular series, including Loom Knitting Pattern Book and Loom Knitting Socks. She is an active member of the online knitting community, where she promotes looms as an alternative to needle knitting. Isela is also the editor and publisher of Loom Knitters Circle, an online magazine for loomers.
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- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (March 20, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9780312366612
- ISBN-13: 978-0312366612
- ASIN: 0312366612
- Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Like most of the other reviewers, I was super glad when this book came out. I'm a complete knitting moron and I was really struggling with the loom I'd gotten last Thanksgiving. Isela has been a great teacher for me through her web site articles and so I was excited that perhaps this book would collect stuff idiot n00bs like me should know, all in one place.
Well, there is a lot of good info in the book. But for me, it was a bit hard to use. Some of the topics are not grouped logically so I found it hard to understand why they appeared where they did. For example, in the Round Loom Knitting chapter, the book talks about making a slipknot, casting on, some basic stitches, and finishing. Ok so far. Then the book goes into left field for a moment with explaining gauge, and then makes a U-turn back to other cast-ons, knit/purl combos, and binding off after sticking in a couple of practice patterns.
Now, before anyone crucifies me for nit-picking, I should say I write technical books for a living. I know topic organization (as well as editing) and unfortunately, this book needs some...badly. The book isn't doing me any favors when it tries to make me practice the "simple hat" pattern after it inexplicably talks about gauge and before it talks about "more cast ons." Such mixing of conceptual and procedural material is at once confusing and rather off-putting, especially for anyone like me who's never knitted before. It makes me think that either knitters are a scatter-brained lot who can actually follow these meanderings (which I know is not true) or that I'm just stupid for not getting it (which I also know is not true).
That said, once I got past the crappy sequence of info, I started having fun learning the basic stitches and making something.
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