Vogue Knitting Stitchionary Volume One: Knit & Purl: The Ultimate Stitch Dictionary from the Editors of Vogue Knitting Magazine (Vogue Knitting Stitchionary Series)
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Book Reviews of Vogue Knitting Stitchionary Volume One: Knit & Purl: The Ultimate Stitch Dictionary from the Editors of Vogue Knitting Magazine (Vogue Knitting Stitchionary Series)
Book Review: Absolutely beautiful!
Summary: 3 Stars
The most striking and alluring thing about this book is the photography, which is absolutely stunning. Each of the glossy pages has its own swatch, which is carefully knitted from Aurora worsted yarn (already in itself a beautiful yarn) and photographed so that the patterns on them are clear and easy to see. It's the clear photographs that made me choose this book over Barbara Walker's books, where you frequently don't really know how a swatch is going to turn out because there are little or no pictures.
However, it does have some problems. First of all, there are no charts for the lace patterns, and the notation for them isn't at all standardized.
My other problem with the book is that it's just too small. There aren't as many different patterns as there are in Barbara Walker's books. For someone looking for a wider variety of patterns, I'd recommend Barbara Walker, and looking up the Barbara Walker project on the web for photographs.
But this book is perfect for someone who is looking for something beautiful that will inspire them. It's also perfect for anyone looking for something that makes its patterns more accessible and easy to see in their finished form.
Book Review: Beautiful eye candy of stitch dictionaries
Summary: 4 Stars
The series of Vogue Stitch Libraries are by no means intended to be as complete as Barbara Walkers or probably even the ORIGINAL Harmony guides. However, their production values are SOOOOOOO much better that I find myself going to these in order to get a better view and more inspiration than the Walker or the original Harmony guides. However, they are more extensive and more beautiful than the new guides (better colors, better format etc) If you can only afford one set of stitch dictionaries, these probably wouldn't be it. However, if you are a stitch pattern junky like me, these are definitely a good set to add to your collection.Book Review: No charts - What were they thinking?
Summary: 2 Stars
The patterns in this book are beautiful, but they're useless to me because they don't have charts. I've never seen a book of this type without charts.
They should have used bigger needles for the lace patterns - many of the patterns were hard to see.
Book Review: Excellent source of pattern stitches
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm delighted! This will replace several dog-eared pamphlets and one that has indelible tea stains. There are many, many stitches, and I'm using three in the sweater I'm knitting now.Book Review: I Expected More from a Vogue Knitting Book
Summary: 3 Stars
Stitch dictionaries are useful to inspire original knitting patterns, as well as to check the accuracy of printed knitting directions. So I was excited to find Volume 1 of Vogue's 3-volume Knitting Stitchionary series. However, I must say that I am quite disappointed in this book. Having grown used to almost all knitting instructions(however simple) being accompanied by a chart to quickly show the knitter the pattern, I found the lack of charts in this book to seriously hamper its usefulness. Also, I found the lack of an index to be seriously annoying. For example, I wanted to refer to directions for the "Harris Tweed" stitch, and I ended up having to thumb through 40 pages of the book, only to discover that this quite common and beautiful pattern is not included!
The book does include 265 stitches made using only the knit and purl stitch,including a fairly extensive collection of lace patterns.
If your knitting library has room for only one stitch dictionary, I think there are better ones available. For the money, I recommend "The Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns" which is much more user friendly and available in paperback.