Machine knitting books

Machine knitting books and patterns Grand River Yarns
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	Title: Fabulous Fairisle Author: John Allen Hardcover, 120pages SPECIAL $19.95 John Allen is keen to encourage knitters to use traditional fairisle patterns and to develop their own designs both for hand knitting and machine knitting. Lots of information for the new or experienced designer. He looks at the history of fairisle , the environment, the knitters, traditional patterns, using colour to create change and includes some basic non traditional sweater patterns.
	Title: The Machine Knitting book Author: John Allen Hardcover, 128 pages SPECIAL $19.95 How to design and create beautiful garments on your knitting machine. The main part of the book is concerned with different stitch techniques, each one realized in at least one sweater. In addition to the principal colourway shown on each sweater, different colour combinations or pattern variations accompany each design to demonstrate the radically different effects that can be produced by using alternative yarns. This is more than a pattern book, more than a technical handbook--it is a complete course in designing highly fashionable machine-knits.
	Title: Treasury of Machine Knitting Stitches Author: John Allen Hardcover, 176 pages SPECIAL $24.95 Contains a wealth of stitches to provide a lasting reference source and an inspirations for experimentation. Full colour throughout illustrates the effects of different colourways and textures to change and enhance the broad range of stitches and techniques. A must have for the machine knitters library.
	GREAT BOOK FOR MACHINE BASICS- If you picked up a used machine or don't have access to lessons this book is a great overall book that covers basic instructions for the main bed and the ribber. It includes casting on and off, decrease and increase, partial knitting, hemming, joining, buttonholes, waste knitting, pockets, trimming, grafting, etc. $17.95
	Machine Knitting Technology & Patterns by Mary Weaver Single Bed Knitting on Single and Double Bed Machines Over 300 hundred pages of useful information on using your machine, making bands, buttonholes, as well as a full range of patterns. Raglan, blouses, overblouses, ponchos, zip up jacket, socks. Using and making punch cards. It also includes pattern such as tuck, tuck lace, slip, skip or float stitch, weaving, plating, intarsia, and methods of knitting sideways, Fairisle, 3 colour fairisle, Making up knitwear. It covers just about anything you may need to know. Regular price $34.95 Sale special $24.95 Note: The book weighs almost a kilo is heavy, shipping to USA will be $10.30 and in Canada postage will depend on destination.
Back Issue Magazines Note: most of these magazines have patterns for punchcard and electronic machines Knit & Stitch clearance $1.50 Vol 4, No 6 1988 Modern Machine Knitting clearance $2.00 each 1987 Mar(2), Apr(2), May(2) July(3), Aug, Sept, Dec. 1988 May, Nov 1989 Feb, July, Dec 1990 Mar, Apr 1991 Nov 1992 Jan, Mar, World of Knitting clearance $2.00 each 1989 Oct Knit Words clearance $3.00 each 2002 Summer Machine Knitting News Collections clearance $5.00 each Collection featuring 16 + sizes 1990

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