Stitch 'n Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook - Debbie Stoller

\nIt's the essential guide for chicks with sticks--because knit happens. \n \n From the tools of the trade to the knitty-gritty of techniques and patterns, all with easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated techniques. Stockinette stitch, rib stitch, seed stitch. Increasing and decreasing. All the bells and whistles: fringes, tassels, cables, intarsia, crab stitch, and Fair Isle. Plus the stitch doctor's own special bag of tricks and how to hook up with other knitters. After the how-tos come the why-to: forty hop, stylish patterns, as good for beginners as they are for purely pros. \n \nFeaturing: \n- Coney Island fireworks scarf \n- Punk rock backpack \n- Crickets technicolor techno-cozies \n- Pippi knee-stockings \n- Big bad baby blanket \n- To-dye-for sweater \n- Princess Snowball cat bed \n- Queen of Hearts bikini