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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Amazing techniques Jun 11, 2009
Susan Guagliumi came to our machine knitting guild to demonstrate and teach and was amazing. What was most useful about her talk was the techniques, her "bridging" ideas and new ways of looking at and treating stitches that you already knew about but might not have used often because they were difficult to manipulate. Even something as simple as cabling was treated in new and exciting ways with Susan's techniques. I had always considered hand manipulation a chore and something to be avoided until after her class, demonstration and the usefulness of her book. With that help, I was able to convert several complicated hand-knitted patterns with popcorn and open-work to an easy and wonderful machine knit pattern. My sincere thanks to Susan Guagliumi for thinking of machine knitting in a completely different way.
Must Have for Machine Knitters Mar 14, 2009
This book is amazing. I am an intermediate machine knitter and its so difficult to find books that have advanced techniques. This book is a treasure and I'm so happy I own it. There are all kinds of cast on's, some I have never heard of! I was really excited to find machine knitting resources on the back, but there were no websites. When I searched for the companies names on the internet nothing came up. That was the only disappointment. However, it is still a 5 star book.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Great Resource- I would love to see an updated version Jan 16, 2009
This is one of the better machine knitting books out there. Like most on the subject it is very dated, and tough to read, but you will be able to use all the patterns and techniques on newer machines. I use it with a Silver Reed 150 and its a great resource.
Reprint goes well with Susanna Lewis' book for model-specific details, + a caveat Jan 13, 2009
This is a great book (note caveat below) for taking your machine knitting beyond stockinette. It opened my mind to many different kinds of effects I hadn't ever considered, many of which can be adapted for hand knitting. Each of the examples is illustrated with a good b&w photo (I haven't seen the 2008 reprint edition so I don't know how good those photos are). There is an introductory section that teaches some of the specific techniques that will be used in making the hand manipulations, e.g. transferring stitches, etc. A number of the techniques require a double-bed machine, but there is lots you can do with a single bed machine.
My one criticism of this book is that it doesn't provide specific details about accomplishing something on various different brands of knitting machines. So a good complement to this book is Susanna Lewis' book A Machine Knitter's Guide to Creating Fabrics: Jacquard, Lace, Intarsia, Ripple, and More, which gives precise instructions for each of the four major families of knitting machines.
[If you are reading this review on the listing of one of the older editions of this book, look for the December 2008 printing.]
must be good! Dec 28, 2008
Before this recent reprint, this book was selling on eBay and on knitters' loops for $50-60! I wasn't willing to pay that much sight unseen, but now that it's reprinted and available at a more reasonable price, I will be adding this to my library. I have the video; it's terrific. It's crossreferenced with SOME pages in the book, so I know the book has more information in it.
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