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Errors in Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns
When I was trying to lean some new stitch patterns from the "Big Book of
Knitting Stitch Patterns" the result was a tangled mess. I thought it was just my mistakes as I knitted in the gloom as my wife watched movies, or I thought I was paying more attention to the movies than to my knitting. But, as I recheck the photographs, charts, and text directions, in the clear light of day, I see significant and substantial errors in each, on more than one stitch pattern. It is too bad that such a pretty book is so flawed. I encourage beginning knitters to avoid this book as a text for learning stitches. Sorry! I call them like I see them. Aaron |
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Errors in Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns
wrote in message . com... When I was trying to lean some new stitch patterns from the "Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns" the result was a tangled mess. I thought it was just my mistakes as I knitted in the gloom as my wife watched movies, or I thought I was paying more attention to the movies than to my knitting. But, as I recheck the photographs, charts, and text directions, in the clear light of day, I see significant and substantial errors in each, on more than one stitch pattern. It is too bad that such a pretty book is so flawed. I encourage beginning knitters to avoid this book as a text for learning stitches. Sorry! I call them like I see them. Aaron Reporting is GOOD, Aaron! However, I do have a query: which edition/version/printing were the glaring errors IN? (I only ask to point out that "newer" reprints/versions, etc MAY have been re-edited, with erratta....) JM2C, Noreen (who, for the record, has an original first edition "The old man and the sea"... and you wouldn't believe the typos!) |
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Errors in Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns
" YarnWright" wrote in message ... wrote in message . com... When I was trying to lean some new stitch patterns from the "Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns" the result was a tangled mess. I thought it was just my mistakes as I knitted in the gloom as my wife watched movies, or I thought I was paying more attention to the movies than to my knitting. But, as I recheck the photographs, charts, and text directions, in the clear light of day, I see significant and substantial errors in each, on more than one stitch pattern. It is too bad that such a pretty book is so flawed. I encourage beginning knitters to avoid this book as a text for learning stitches. Sorry! I call them like I see them. Aaron Reporting is GOOD, Aaron! However, I do have a query: which edition/version/printing were the glaring errors IN? (I only ask to point out that "newer" reprints/versions, etc MAY have been re-edited, with erratta....) JM2C, Noreen (who, for the record, has an original first edition "The old man and the sea"... and you wouldn't believe the typos!) Of course, thinking about it, ole man Hemmingway DID like his booze... maybe they were HIS OWN original typos! LOL Noreen |
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Errors in Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns
Big Book of Knitting Stitches
Sterling ISBN 1-4027-0830-0 English translation © 2004 by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., first printing (Sold at full price at a major chain bookstore in December of 2005) See for example page 54, Wide Lattice and Lattice Stripe. On the Lattice Stripe, the chart symbols distinguish between a "right cross" and a "right crossover." the Chart indicates two "right cross"(es) in row three, while the text instructions state one right cross and one right crossover in row three. The text for the Wide Lattice says to work it on a multiple of 10 stitches. The chart shows it to be a bit wider! Note that on three stitches on pg 53, none of the charts exactly match the photographs. I noticed the page 53 discrepancies in the bookstore. If I had spent less time puzzling over them in the bookstore, my wife would not have noticed the book and would not have bought it for me. Santas around the world take note! Aaron " YarnWright" wrote in message ... wrote in message . com... When I was trying to lean some new stitch patterns from the "Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns" the result was a tangled mess. I thought it was just my mistakes as I knitted in the gloom as my wife watched movies, or I thought I was paying more attention to the movies than to my knitting. But, as I recheck the photographs, charts, and text directions, in the clear light of day, I see significant and substantial errors in each, on more than one stitch pattern. It is too bad that such a pretty book is so flawed. I encourage beginning knitters to avoid this book as a text for learning stitches. Sorry! I call them like I see them. Aaron Reporting is GOOD, Aaron! However, I do have a query: which edition/version/printing were the glaring errors IN? (I only ask to point out that "newer" reprints/versions, etc MAY have been re-edited, with erratta....) JM2C, Noreen (who, for the record, has an original first edition "The old man and the sea"... and you wouldn't believe the typos!) |
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Errors in Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns
WOW!
Those are most definitely, most definitively glaring errors! Thanks for sharing, Aaron. Noreen wrote in message om... Big Book of Knitting Stitches Sterling ISBN 1-4027-0830-0 English translation © 2004 by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., first printing (Sold at full price at a major chain bookstore in December of 2005) See for example page 54, Wide Lattice and Lattice Stripe. On the Lattice Stripe, the chart symbols distinguish between a "right cross" and a "right crossover." the Chart indicates two "right cross"(es) in row three, while the text instructions state one right cross and one right crossover in row three. The text for the Wide Lattice says to work it on a multiple of 10 stitches. The chart shows it to be a bit wider! Note that on three stitches on pg 53, none of the charts exactly match the photographs. I noticed the page 53 discrepancies in the bookstore. If I had spent less time puzzling over them in the bookstore, my wife would not have noticed the book and would not have bought it for me. Santas around the world take note! Aaron " YarnWright" wrote in message ... wrote in message . com... When I was trying to lean some new stitch patterns from the "Big Book of Knitting Stitch Patterns" the result was a tangled mess. I thought it was just my mistakes as I knitted in the gloom as my wife watched movies, or I thought I was paying more attention to the movies than to my knitting. But, as I recheck the photographs, charts, and text directions, in the clear light of day, I see significant and substantial errors in each, on more than one stitch pattern. It is too bad that such a pretty book is so flawed. I encourage beginning knitters to avoid this book as a text for learning stitches. Sorry! I call them like I see them. Aaron Reporting is GOOD, Aaron! However, I do have a query: which edition/version/printing were the glaring errors IN? (I only ask to point out that "newer" reprints/versions, etc MAY have been re-edited, with erratta....) JM2C, Noreen (who, for the record, has an original first edition "The old man and the sea"... and you wouldn't believe the typos!) |
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