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In The Knitter’s Book of Wool and The Knitter’s Book of Yarn , Parkes educates knitters on the ins and outs of fiber and makes minutiae interesting. Here, she describes the qualities that make yarn suitable for sock knitting, explores the different types of fibers that can be used in sock yarn, and analyzes stitches and stitch patterns commonly used in sock knitting. There’s also a beautifully curated selection of sock patterns, including new designs by some of the biggest names in the field. Though the instructions are clear, the majority of the patterns are best suited for those with sock-knitting experience. An essential addition. -Library Journal
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A sock is a work of wonder. No other knitted garment has as many structural demands or endures as much wear and tear. The humble sock must defy gravity, suffer the confines of our shoes, and endure being trampled on all day long.
All too often, the root cause of a sock's triumph or failure is the yarn itself. In The Knitter’s Book of Socks, Clara Parkes shows you how to knit socks from yarn up, following the sock yarn life cycle from its foundations to its final moments on a proud foot. By understanding a sock's basic needs—elasticity, strength, and moisture management—you’ll learn how to play with these tools like building blocks, confidently combining fiber, twist, ply, pattern, and clever stitch tricks to construct your perfect pair of socks.
To help put these principles into practice, The Knitter’s Book of Socks also offers 20 fresh, original patterns from today’s sock-design luminaries, including Cookie A, Cat Bordhi, Ann Budd, Nancy Bush, Anne Hanson, and Melissa Morgan-Oakes. The socks presented here run the gamut from simple knit-and-purl combinations suitable for beginners to innovative designs with lush colorwork, swirling cables, and delicate lace.
Understanding the elements of yarn is the first step on every successful sock knitting journey. With this book as your guide, you’ll learn how to make any sock yarn shine and love every pair of socks you knit.
All too often, the root cause of a sock's triumph or failure is the yarn itself. In The Knitter’s Book of Socks, Clara Parkes shows you how to knit socks from yarn up, following the sock yarn life cycle from its foundations to its final moments on a proud foot. By understanding a sock's basic needs—elasticity, strength, and moisture management—you’ll learn how to play with these tools like building blocks, confidently combining fiber, twist, ply, pattern, and clever stitch tricks to construct your perfect pair of socks.
To help put these principles into practice, The Knitter’s Book of Socks also offers 20 fresh, original patterns from today’s sock-design luminaries, including Cookie A, Cat Bordhi, Ann Budd, Nancy Bush, Anne Hanson, and Melissa Morgan-Oakes. The socks presented here run the gamut from simple knit-and-purl combinations suitable for beginners to innovative designs with lush colorwork, swirling cables, and delicate lace.
Understanding the elements of yarn is the first step on every successful sock knitting journey. With this book as your guide, you’ll learn how to make any sock yarn shine and love every pair of socks you knit.
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Reference for Choosing Sock Yarns, Plus 20 Designer Sock Patterns
14. Oktober 2011
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Exactly what you would expect from yarn expert Clara Parkes: a sock knitting book that focuses on yarn selection! The book starts with an explanation of what a sock needs. This is (1) lasting elasticity, (2) strength (tensile strength and ability to withstand abrasion), (3) moisture management (absorption and wicking), and (4) a willingness to be worked and worn. With these requirements in mind, Parkes then talks about the structural differences in various fiber types (protein, plant, regenerated cellulose, synthetic); and about the role that yarn construction (singles, 2-ply, 3-ply, 4-ply, S-on-S cables, true cables, core spun) plays in the choice of good yarns for socks.
Parkes includes a full chapter on stitch tricks for maximizing elasticity (using ribbing, stretchy increases, cables, faux cables), and for maximizing strength (using twisted stitches, fine gauge, slipped stitches, stranding and double knitting). In this chapter Parkes also discusses (1) the pros and cons of using nylon reinforcing yarn; (2) the choice of heel types for greater or lesser durability; and (3) the basics of ease required for proper sock fit.
In the remaining three quarters of the 208-page book, Parke presents 20 wonderful sock patterns, mostly charted, by famous sock designers: Cat Bordhi, Jane Cochran, Cookie A., Stephen Houghton, Jennifer Hagan, Norah Gaughan, Marlaina Bird, Anne Hanson, Jayme Stahl, Melissa Morgan-Oakes, Sivia Harding, Nancy Bird, Sandi Rosner, Cirilia Rose, Jared Flood, Lucy Neatby, Kathryn Alexander, A. Karen Aifke, Ann Budd, and Clara Parkes herself. There are descriptive introductions to each pattern, and there are brief designer biographies in the back of the book.
The most common size is Women's Medium, but many patterns include more than one size. The patterns include the finished measurements of the socks. Knitting skill level is intermediate to experienced (because socks are knitted in the round), but adventurous new knitters should be able to knit the patterns that have simple charts or no charts. Most of the patterns are written for a general type of yarn (usually fingering weight) but then include specific suggestions for commercial yarns (the yarns used in the models).
The only thing not to like about this copiously illustrated book is that the text and photos are not printed on glossy paper. Because this book is both a useful technical reference on sock yarns and a great collection of designer sock patterns, I give it an unqualified 5 stars. I also highly recommend Clara Parkes' first book on knitting yarns, The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn.
Parkes includes a full chapter on stitch tricks for maximizing elasticity (using ribbing, stretchy increases, cables, faux cables), and for maximizing strength (using twisted stitches, fine gauge, slipped stitches, stranding and double knitting). In this chapter Parkes also discusses (1) the pros and cons of using nylon reinforcing yarn; (2) the choice of heel types for greater or lesser durability; and (3) the basics of ease required for proper sock fit.
In the remaining three quarters of the 208-page book, Parke presents 20 wonderful sock patterns, mostly charted, by famous sock designers: Cat Bordhi, Jane Cochran, Cookie A., Stephen Houghton, Jennifer Hagan, Norah Gaughan, Marlaina Bird, Anne Hanson, Jayme Stahl, Melissa Morgan-Oakes, Sivia Harding, Nancy Bird, Sandi Rosner, Cirilia Rose, Jared Flood, Lucy Neatby, Kathryn Alexander, A. Karen Aifke, Ann Budd, and Clara Parkes herself. There are descriptive introductions to each pattern, and there are brief designer biographies in the back of the book.
The most common size is Women's Medium, but many patterns include more than one size. The patterns include the finished measurements of the socks. Knitting skill level is intermediate to experienced (because socks are knitted in the round), but adventurous new knitters should be able to knit the patterns that have simple charts or no charts. Most of the patterns are written for a general type of yarn (usually fingering weight) but then include specific suggestions for commercial yarns (the yarns used in the models).
The only thing not to like about this copiously illustrated book is that the text and photos are not printed on glossy paper. Because this book is both a useful technical reference on sock yarns and a great collection of designer sock patterns, I give it an unqualified 5 stars. I also highly recommend Clara Parkes' first book on knitting yarns, The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn.
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A Grand Book - One Every Sock Knitter Should Own
18. Oktober 2011
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I love to knit socks and I just love a good sock knitting book. I can't think of anyone who could do a better job with this book than Clara Parkes. Her past two books are winners and I look forward to her blog, Knitter's Review, regularly. The book is a bible for anyone who knits socks or has wanted to try knitting them. It starts out with what a sock needs - lasting elasticity, brute strength, and moisture management. It then goes into Fiber Foundations - the language of sock fibers, protein fibers, silk, plant fibers, regenerated cellulose, and synthetic fibers. Then we come to the Yarns - Getting the right twist, singles, two plies, three plies, four and more plies, s-on-s cables, true cables, and core-spun. The knitter is then shown Stitch Tricks - Tricks for Elasticity and Tricks for Strength. Then come the wonderful patterns that Clara has put together and which I'll share with you a bit later. There is a section on Resources - Caring for Socks, Foot Length Tables, Materials Resources, Standard Yarn Weight System, and Recommended Reading. Last, but not least, is a section on the pattern designers.
Common questions for the sock knitter are answered such as Nylon Reinforcement or not, what kind of toes should be knit, how do we get the right fit. Clara goes into tricks for making the best socks. My favorite one is the part on how to use ribbing for elasticity. As she says, "A well-wearing sock will hold snug to your foot, minimizing any slippage in the shoe, so that foot, sock and shoe can move as one."
The patterns start out with the easiest and move on to the more advanced. My favorites are the following:
Hickory designed by Jane Cochran. It looks a bit like a basketbeave pattern and is knit in a lovely red out of fingering-weight yarn.
Firefly is designed by Jennifer Hagan. These are cabled socks, again in a red hue. The cables are separated by columns of purl stitches.
Buddleia, designed by Marlaina Bird, is the type of sock I'd love to knit but haven't tried as yet. It's knit in classic white using size one needles. The yarn used is Yak, with 15% nylon for protection and strength.
Veil of Roses is designed by Anne Hansol and are knit in silk and merino in a blue and yellow variegated colorway. The pattern is lace.
I immediately fell in love with Jayme Stahl's Isabella d'Este orange lace socks with lace cuffs and stockinette feet. They are luscious.
Kensington Socks are designed by Nancy Bush in a lovely off-white. She utilizes left and right crossing stitches, "the elaborate fine lines of lattice-filled diamonds, zigzagging columns, and overlapping cables - are all optical illusions created much more easily that you'd think by using traveling stitches.
Hummingbird is designed by Sandi Rosner and is for all the beautiful variegated colored yarn in your stash. It's lacy and and self-patterning.
Both Ann Budd and Karen Alfke designed 'indestructible' socks which are also aesthetic.
The photos in the book are clear and the patterns are easy to read. Most of them utilize charts which are not my favorite way to read patterns but I know I'm in the minority and it's just a matter of time till I'm turned around to a chart-user. This is a grand book, one every sock knitter should own. The resources are great and I know I'll be turning to this book again and again.
Common questions for the sock knitter are answered such as Nylon Reinforcement or not, what kind of toes should be knit, how do we get the right fit. Clara goes into tricks for making the best socks. My favorite one is the part on how to use ribbing for elasticity. As she says, "A well-wearing sock will hold snug to your foot, minimizing any slippage in the shoe, so that foot, sock and shoe can move as one."
The patterns start out with the easiest and move on to the more advanced. My favorites are the following:
Hickory designed by Jane Cochran. It looks a bit like a basketbeave pattern and is knit in a lovely red out of fingering-weight yarn.
Firefly is designed by Jennifer Hagan. These are cabled socks, again in a red hue. The cables are separated by columns of purl stitches.
Buddleia, designed by Marlaina Bird, is the type of sock I'd love to knit but haven't tried as yet. It's knit in classic white using size one needles. The yarn used is Yak, with 15% nylon for protection and strength.
Veil of Roses is designed by Anne Hansol and are knit in silk and merino in a blue and yellow variegated colorway. The pattern is lace.
I immediately fell in love with Jayme Stahl's Isabella d'Este orange lace socks with lace cuffs and stockinette feet. They are luscious.
Kensington Socks are designed by Nancy Bush in a lovely off-white. She utilizes left and right crossing stitches, "the elaborate fine lines of lattice-filled diamonds, zigzagging columns, and overlapping cables - are all optical illusions created much more easily that you'd think by using traveling stitches.
Hummingbird is designed by Sandi Rosner and is for all the beautiful variegated colored yarn in your stash. It's lacy and and self-patterning.
Both Ann Budd and Karen Alfke designed 'indestructible' socks which are also aesthetic.
The photos in the book are clear and the patterns are easy to read. Most of them utilize charts which are not my favorite way to read patterns but I know I'm in the minority and it's just a matter of time till I'm turned around to a chart-user. This is a grand book, one every sock knitter should own. The resources are great and I know I'll be turning to this book again and again.
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A MUST HAVE for all sock knitters
21. Oktober 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
Hard to top the two reviews up - Lucy Neatby"s double knit socks - worth it for this pattern alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best sock book I've bought since The Enchanted Sole! I've been knitting for 44 years and I'm a sock junkie and have well over 30 sock books.
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