**NEW** Patty Lyons’ Knitting Bag Of Tricks

Most knitting advice tells you what to do. This book spends just as much time on why, so when your edges will not behave or your tension keeps drifting, you understand the stitch well enough to fix it yourself next time, not just this once. It is over 70 sanity saving hacks, gathered from Patty Lyons' advice columns and plenty of new ones besides, covering everything from gauge and twisted stitches to the kind of troubleshooting that only comes up once you have been knitting a while.

Written by Patty Lyons, an internationally recognised knitting instructor and technique expert. It moves from stitch anatomy and the fundamentals of how technique shapes the finished fabric, through the common mistakes most knitters overlook, and on to more advanced troubleshooting, with a basics reference tucked at the back for anything you need to check along the way. Every technique is illustrated with step by step artwork, and there is a healthy scattering of humour throughout.

How it is structured

The book opens with the groundwork, how a stitch is built and how that shapes your fabric, before working through more than 70 individual hacks and tricks for the problems that come up again and again, edges, tension, twisted stitches among them. It finishes with a basics reference section, so casting on and stitch formation are there if you need them without taking up space in the main hacks.

What is inside

Over 70 hacks and tricks covering gauge, tension, edges, twisted stitches and more. Explanations of stitch anatomy and how technique affects your finished fabric. A basics reference section at the back. Step by step illustrated artwork throughout, and a lay flat binding so you can keep your hands on your needles while you read.

Perfect for

Knitters who already have the basics and want to understand why their knitting does what it does, so they can fix problems rather than just work around them. It suits any knitter who has picked up yarn and needles and wants to get noticeably better.

A book that makes you a sharper knitter, one well explained trick at a time.