A Dictionary of Stitches

Super Stitches Knitting is a basic pattern guide for anything from stockinette, cable, ribbing, seed, basket, diamond to lace stitches. For no-pattern knitters and for knitters who create or alter patterns, learning a variety of textures you can knit (247 pages of them) allows you to apply the basic theory of a texture to any project you’re working on or creating by repeating the basic stitch. For someone just learning to knit, the book could also be used as short knitting exercises, where a knitter could learn, play with and become familiar with stitches/textures before encountering them in a pattern.

With so many possibilities listed in this book, I can look for inspiration by flipping through pages, which have the textures broken into categories such as “Knit and Purl Patterns,” “Edgings,” “textured stitches,” “Ornamental Stitches.” Granted, some of the basic patterns are more complex than others, but this library of stitch types (or another guide similar to it) seems like a must have for

So for instance, moss stitch, as described in the text, works like this:

Knit in multiples of 2 stitches.

Row 1: Knit 1, Purl 1. Repeat until end of row

Row 2: Same as row 1

Row 3: Purl 1, Knit 1. Repeat until end of row

Row 4: Same as row 3

Repeat these four rows for entire project.