"More than 150 stitch patterns, most published here for the first time, both charted and written out row by row"--Page 4 of cover.

Over the years knitting has produced its own language of technical terms, abbreviations, and familiar ways used in very particular ways. Atherley helps you learn to read instructions, and expand your knitting knowledge. In addition to the A-to-Z definitions, she addresses questions about gauge, tools, sweater construction, and much more that will help you become a better knitter.

A guide to knitting that covers needles, yarn, casting on, binding off, purling, increasing and decreasing stitches, creating texture, and other basics and includes patterns for more than three hundred stitches as well as photographs of each.