Do you love to knit -- & hate to purl? Have you ever started a sweater without enough yarn from the same dye lot to finish it? When you cast on do you end up with a tail of yarn thats maddeningly too long or too short? Elizabeth Zimmermann comes to the rescue with clever solutions to frustrating problems & step-by-step instructions for brilliant timeless designs. In Knitting Without Tears " youll find elegant designs for: Color-pattern Norwegian ski sweaters Seamless patterned-yoke sweaters Hooded garter-stitch jackets for babies Watch caps socks slippers mittens & more! This classic & influential book is poised to inspire a whole new generation of knitters who have yet to discover the joys & comforts of knitting. As the lady herself once put it "properly practiced knitting soothes the troubled spirit & it doesnt hurt the untroubled spirit either."" ...

There's a new generation of knitters out there turning the traditional image of granny-knitters on its head. Everyone has heard the mantra ' Knitting is the new yoga' but not everyone is lucky enough to have someone to show them the ropes & get them started on their very first row. Unless they have a friend or relative to teach them how to start often would-be knitters turn to the so-called 'beginners patterns' but these can be confusing difficult to follow & more often than not written in 'knit' rather than English. This book will be a tried & tested guide for people at the very beginning of their knitting lives looking for guidance & patterns for projects that they can use to make that first all-important step to ' Beyond the Scarf'. Contents include: Knitting Basics: Getting Started; Knitter's First Project: The Scarf; Workshops: Decreasing; Creating a Rib; Changing Colour; Increasing; Finishing; Knitting a Flower; Cable: Making a Cable; Making a Cable Bag; Eyelets & so on... ...

After the fantastic success of Knitty Gritty: Knitting for the Absolute Beginner Aneeta Patel is back to teach knitters how to advance to the next stage. With detailed instructions & photographs to accompany you at every step Knitty Gritty: The Next Steps shows you how to knit lace how to use beads & how to read & create charts to knit Fair Isle & intarsia patterns using different colours. You will also learn the secrets of knitting in the round so you too can knit socks like a pro! Once again using only plain English Aneeta teaches budding knitters all the tips & tricks of the trade so that these patterns are accessible to anyone who has mastered the very basics of knitting. With projects including jumpers for adults & kids gloves hats socks & an array of seasonal knits Knitty Gritty: The Next Steps is everything you need on the road to advanced knitting. ...

Knock em Cold Kid is the autobiography of award-winning Welsh writer Elaine Morgan. Born in the Rhondda Valley in 1920 Elaine vividly describes the relationship between her father & mother as they coped with life on the dole. Her grammar school decided to groom her for the Oxford entrance exam & she entered Lady Margaret Hall in 1939. It was a very different world from the one she knew but she enjoyed the experience. In 1945 she married Morien Morgan a Welsh schoolmaster & embarked on a full time role of wife & mother when rationing was at its tightest & the housing shortage was acute. After 7 years as a housewife she claimed some time for herself & took up pen & paper. Initially the new medium of TV could not coax serious writers to feed it & so Elaine got in at the ground floor & started a prolific career as a TV dramatist. She wrote for programmes such as How Green Was My Valley (1975) & Testament of Youth (1979) winning two BAFTAs two Writers Guild awards the Prix Italia & the Writer of the Year Award from the Royal Television Society along the way. In 1972 in a change of direction she wrote The Descent of Woman an account of human evolution seen from the perspective of the female of the species. This became a bestseller & the next forty years of her life were dedicated to defending the controversial theory of the Aquatic Ape as put forward in her book. Knock em Cold Kid is Elaines account of her life & looks at how her career & the Aquatic Ape Theory impacted on her family life. ...

Brilliantly funny Louise Rennisons fabby third book on the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Now in gorgey new paperback & guaranteed to have the nation laughing their knickers off! Jas said Well what happened?" & I said " Well it was beyond marvy. We talked & snogged & then he made me a sandwich & we snogged & then he played me a record & then we snogged." " So it was like!" " Yeah! a snogging fest." " Sacre bleu!" Jas looked like she was thinking which is a) unusual & b) scary. I said " But then this weird thing happened. He had his hands on my waist standing behind me." " Oo-er!" "D-accord. Anyway I turned round & he sort of leaped out of the way like two short leaping things." " Was he dancing?" " No! I think he was frightened of being knocked out by my nunga-nungas!" Then we both laughed like loons on loon tablets (i.e. A LOT)." ...

The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the universe: its make-up its evolution & the fundamental forces that determine its operation. Knocking on Heavens Door is an exhilarating & accessible overview of these developments & a rousing defence of the role of science in our lives. There could be no better guide than Lisa Randall: the bestselling author of Warped Passages is an expert on both particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) & cosmology (the study of the largest) & is one of the most highly regarded theoretical physicists in the world. In Knocking on Heavens Door she recounts the thrilling progress in our understanding of the universe from Galileo & Newton to Einstein & Feynman; she explores how we decide which scientific questions to study & how we go about answering them; & she examines the role of risk creativity uncertainty beauty & truth in scientific thinking. Throughout Lisa Randall explains with wit & clarity the latest ideas in physics & cosmology including the aims of the biggest & most expensive machine ever built: the Large Hadron Collider the enormous particle accelerator situated over a 100 metres below the French-Swiss border. More than 27 kilometres in circumference it has within it the hottest spot in the galaxy as well as the coldest & features the most powerful supercomputer system of all time. One of the most illuminating science books in years Knocking on Heavens Door makes clear the biggest scientific questions we face & reveals how answering them could ultimately tell us who we are & where we came from. ...

The Knook Expanded Beginner Set" lets you use light medium & bulky weight yarns to make small medium & large projects
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Dominic Kitchen is a wedding photographer. Every Saturday since his career began in the sixties he has photographed a bride & groom on the happiest day of their lives captured the moment they tied the knot forever & then faded away into the background. But throughout his life Dominic has felt a knot inside him tighten threatening his own chance of a happy ever after. & as the years go by it becomes more difficult to ignore until the ties that bind threaten to tear him apart... ...

A clear introduction to the world of knots from the practical to the decorative. Illustrated step-by-step instructions on how to master over 50 knots. Step-by-step instructions to tying over 50 knots from the essential to the decorative. A practical guide for sailers moutaineers & campers as well as those who would like to try their hand at more decorative knots. ...

Once John Rebus was a Para served in the elite SAS. Now hes an Edinburgh policeman who spends time evading his memories & missing promotion opportunities. Then there is the small matter of the brutal abduction & murder of two young girls & a third missing. Detective Sergeant John Rebus smoking & drinking too much his own daughter spirited away by his estranged wife is one of many policemen hunting the killer. Then. The messages begin: knotted string & matchstick crosses taunt Rebus with a puzzle only he can solve. So begins the case that introduced the crime world to one of its most compelling characters. ...