Stitch 'n bitch: the knitter's handbook - Debbie Stoller

It's the essential guide for chicks with sticks--because knit happens.

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.

Featuring: Coney Island fireworks scarf Punk rock backpack Crickets technicolor techno-cozies Pippi knee-stockings Big bad baby blanket To-dye-for sweater Princess Snowball cat bed Queen of Hearts bikini.