What is Reddit's opinion of The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes and Gauges?

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The various weights of yarn like fingering, Aran, double knitting, and so forth are always ranges of sizes, and not, I think especially useful for most knitters. What you really need to know is the recommended needle size, which most manufacturers helpfully provide: in this case, it's a 3.5mm needle. If you're a loose knitter, use a 3 or 3.25. If you're a tight knitter, use a 4.

An extremely useful guide for most all knitters is Ann Budd's Handy Book of Patterns. You make up a gauge swatch and calculate the number of stitches per inch; figure out what size you want the garment to be; and then follow the chosen pattern, getting appropriate numbers of stitches from a series of inline tables as you go. (Take a look inside the book at that link and you'll see what I'm talking about.) Once you know what you're doing, it's perfectly sensible and intuitive, and will not steer you wrong. It's basically all the patterns for all the garments, ever, and worth every cent.

I bought The Knitters Handy Book of Patterns on a whim, and now I've got the sweater one and the top down sweater one too. I love them so much. I'm tall so I was constantly having to adjust patterns and it was driving me mad, paying £5+ for a pretty cardigan pattern then having to re-write most of it to make it fit! Now I don't bother, I make my own patterns to fit me properly.

None specified, just the size of the finished sock. I am using the sock pattern in The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns, and making it 12 inches/30 cm to be a long boot sock.

I know one to avoid though: Don't use a tube sock pattern for soldiers. The Red Cross tried that in WWII and the fellas much preferred socks with real heels.

The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes and Gauges is one I use regularly.

Negative ease just means "a little bit smaller than the desired size", so if your hand was seven and a half inches around, you could work a glove to be seven and a quarter inches around so it's snug. There's a reason that "fits like a glove" is an expression.

Since you know how to make a nice pair of socks, try a pair of mittens some day: they're no more difficult, and I would say they're easier. Once you know how to make a thumb, you're ready for gloves, which really are just mittens with five thumbs. Check out Ann Budd's Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns, which makes it easy to knit any garment in any size with almost any yarn: it's how I learned to make gloves.

Ann Budd's The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns starts with a gusseted mitten, and goes on with patterns for almost anything you could care to make. The way it works is, you decide what size you want the garment to be. You make a gauge swatch (plain stocking stitch or Fair Isle or whatever you like) and measure it to get the number of stitches per inch. And then you follow the pattern using those two pieces of information. At the end, you are guaranteed to have mittens that fit perfectly. I've made so many things from the book, and lent it to friends who needed the perfect mitten or hat or sweater pattern. It's how I learned to make gloves.

It is an excellent book, something all knitters should have in their library,

Some books I've heard are good:

• Ann Budd's Handy Book of Knitting Patterns series (includes a book on sweater design, as well as top-down sweater design
• Knitting in Plain English series (includes a book specifically for sweater design)
• Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Workshop

There’s a short row beanie hat knit from crown to brim just in garter stitch I make over and over that I used to have a pattern for but now I just kind of go by eye/memory. Might have been this one and over time I stopped bothering with the cable in favor of speed or customization https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/braid-edged-cap

I also use this book https://www.amazon.com/Knitters-Handy-Book-Patterns/dp/1931499047 for mittens and gloves especially. It’s the math already done for any size and any yarn weight for just a basic pattern. And then I’ll add any stitch patterns or colorwork or whatever that I want.

Also been meaning to make another Capucine. It’s terribly comfortable.

So Ann Budd had/has a book of standard patterns and it’s laid out so you use a formula driven chart to create any size from any (okay many ) gauges …

The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns https://www.amazon.com/dp/1931499047/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_BW0QQB02RSTRVTB3CTFJ

Or, using ravelry’s advanced search features you can look up baby sweaters and filter by the needle size or rough weight of the combined strands… (you can do a WPI, (wraps per inch ) test holding the two strands together

I searched sweater and filtered by “knitting” “picture” “all sweaters” “baby” and then Aran and Bulky weight yarn

Here’s just one hit https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/quick-oats of the 435 patterns those terms returned…

Happy hunting!!

Ohhh, that's totally what I'm talking about! Thanks, I could be completely wrong about that type of pattern ever existing. I know nothing about knitting, do you think the below book has all one needs to know?

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Knitters-Handy-Book-Patterns/dp/1931499047