Patty Lyons Knitting Bag of Tricks: The Official Workbook (by Patty Lyons)

Patty Lyons is a knitting expert and renowned tutor, who wants you to understand the “why” to get to a better “how”. She is the scientist of knitting, deconstructing stitches and knitting construction and working out better ways to work techniques to achieve the best possible result. I use her modified SSK decrease and love the much neater stitches! If you want to take your knitting to the next level, Patty Lyons’ tutorials are the place to go.

Join Patty on a self-guided journey to become a better knitter, using this workbook, designed as a companion to her super successful Knitting Bag of Tricks.

The Workbook brings the classroom experience straight to your needles, with exercises designed to help you practice and master the lessons and techniques included. If you prefer hands-on learning to reading tutorials, or you want to get the most out of Knitting Bag of Tricks, you’ll want to pick up this practical workbook and use it as you read along with the book.

The Workbook contains step-by-step instructions to create knitting swatches that help you practice the techniques, get to know your own knitting, and understand the ‘why’ as well as the ‘how.’ There are both clear instructions for each exercise, with over 200 technical illustrations, as well as lots space for your own notes and adding your samples and ‘swatchservations’. In addition, there are fun ways to chart your knitting journey and the progress you are making with features such as stickers space to set goals and track an entire year’s worth of projects focused on learning, and cartoons by fan-favorite illustrator Franklin Habit and Patty’s own humorous ‘purls’ of wisdom will resonate with knitters of all abilities and have you laughing while you learn. Ready to enhance your knitting skills? Let Patty Lyons’ workbook be your guide. Patty Lyons builds on the first book and brings the advice and technical information alive with practical exercises and prompts that relate to the subjects in the book but feature all new content .

NOTE: The binding is a sewn stay-flat binding. In order for your book to stay open, the spine is not directly attached to the pages. Watch video here for demo.

Author Biography

Patty Lyons is a knitting designer and teacher and the author of best-selling title, Patty Lyons’ Knitting Bag of Tricks. She has created content for all the key knitting brands including Craftsy, Interweave and Vogue Knitting and she writes a regular ‘Ask Patty’ column for Modern Daily Knitting.