The Knitter's Book of Yarn: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Using, and Enjoying Yarn

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Overview

Not all yarns are alike. Some make our hearts and hands sing, some get the job done without much fanfare, and some cause nothing but frustration and disappointment. The gorgeous pair of socks that emerged from their first bath twice as long as when they went in. The delicate baby sweater that started pilling before it even came off the needles. The stunning colorwork scarf that you can’t wear because the yarn feels like sandpaper against your neck. If only there were a way to read a skein and know how it would behave and what it wanted to become before you invested your time, energy, and money in it. Now there is! With The Knitter’s Book of Yarn, you’ll learn how to unleash your inner yarn whisperer.

In these pages, Clara Parkes provides in-depth insight into a vast selection of yarns, giving you the inside stories behind the most common fiber types, preparations, spins, and ply combinations used by large-scale manufacturers and importers, medium-sized companies, boutique dye shops, community spinneries, and old-fashioned sheep farms. And, because we learn best by doing, Parkes went to some of the most creative and inquisitive design minds of the knitting world to provide a wide assortment of patterns created to highlight the qualities (and minimize the drawbacks) of specific types of yarns.

The Knitter’s Book of Yarn will teach you everything you need to know about yarn: How it’s made, who makes it, how it gets to you, and what it longs to become. The next time you pick up a skein, you won’t have to wonder what to do with it. You’ll just know–the way any yarn whisperer would.

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Many longtime knitters are not all that knowledgeable about the yarns they use in their craft and would be hard-pressed to distinguish a cellulose from a synthetic yarn, let alone expound on fiber characteristics. Parkes, publisher of the wildly popular KnittersReview.com weekly, has made it her mission to explore the potential uses and quirks of yarns, from simple two-ply yarn to chenille and bouclés. She has visited large manufacturers, importers, small dye shops, and sheep farms and learned how fibers are prepared, spun, and plied and what types of projects might best bring out the assets of a particular yarn. She tells all in this readable book that also includes a variety of projects suitable for each type of yarn. This marvelous resource belongs in every knitting collection.


—Jan Zlendich

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780307352163
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 10/16/2007
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 146,867
  • Product dimensions: 7.77 (w) x 9.29 (h) x 1.21 (d)

Meet the Author

CLARA PARKES left her career in the booming high-tech industry to pursue her love of knitting. She lives on the coast of Maine in a farm house full of yarn. She is the publisher of KnittersReview.com and a contributing editor to Interweave Knits.

Table of Contents


Fiber Foundations
Protein Fibers     12
Cellulose Fibers     34
Cellulosic Fibers     38
Synthetic Fibers     42
Making Yarn
Evaluating Yarns Up Close     49
Mills and Microspinneries     49
Farm Yarns     51
Fiber Festivals     53
Going Organic     54
Color in Yarn     55
The Original Spin     60
The Politics of Pills     64
Ply Me a River
The Single     68
Two-Ply Yarns     84
Three-Ply Yarns     126
Four-Ply and More     144
Cabled Yarns     177
Textured Yarns     190
Boucle Yarn     206
Brushed Yarn     212
Chenille Yarn     218
The Felt Factor     222
Putting It All Together
Care and Feeding     232
Knowing What You Have: WPI     235
CYCA Numbers Explained     236
Abbreviations and Techniques     236
Resources     239
Recommended Reading     242
About the Designers     243
Acknowledgments     245
Glossary     247
Aboutthe Author     253
Index     254

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 18, 2011

    Chock full of helpful knowledge

    I found this book full of information to help me understand the nature of fiber better. It has greatly improved my craft.

    Also, I find I go back to the Maine Morning Mitts pattern again and again.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 19, 2010

    Great!

    As a knitter, I am fascinated by everything related to the craft. This is a great book that teaches you everything you could possibly want to know about yarn. Definitely worth the read!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 17, 2010

    Most useful for those who design their own patterns and/or have a large yarn stash

    This book is really useful for knitters who enjoy working with vintage patterns or otherwise enjoy swapping out yarns from patterns, or who design their own knitting patterns. I particularly found the sections on how to work with a fiber's natural tendencies the most useful. If you have a large yarn stash that you're trying to use in other patterns this book will help you choose fibers that work with what you have.

    I really am not a knitter who enjoys wearing or knitting socks so if you do, a lot of the information in this book is extremely helpful for you. I also didn't particularly like any of the patterns that are in the book (many of them are sock patterns to boot). However, as they are incidental bonuses to the main information, it doesn't particularly bother me either way, as the other information is detailed enough that I still feel my purchase was worth the investment.

    One major drawback to this book is that it does not cater to crocheters at all. While the general yarn information still holds, keep in mind that crochet tends to be a heavier-weight fabric and it therefore is a good idea to remember that drape, stretching, and shrinking issues may be affected differently by crochet stitches.

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