Hand-Manipulated Stitches for Machine Knitters by Susan Guagliumi (1990, Hardcover)

This is an outstanding hardover book. The author is Susan Guagliumi. Published by the Taunton Press (the publisher of Threads Magazine); The cover states that it is a Threads Book. 249 pages long. I am reviewing the fourth printing of the book dated 1996.

Quoting From the back cover: The knitting machine can knit in seconds what might take hours to knit by hand. Still, there are plenty of stitches and effects that the machine cannot execute automatically. For these, your hands take charge.

Machine knitting expert Susan Guagliumi takes the mystery out of hand-manipulated techniques. This comprehensive and readable guide includes detailed information on all types of decorative hand-manipulated stitches: twisted, wrapped, woven, lifted, ruhing, transferred and cabled. This rich sourcebook offers a wealth of patterns. It is sure to enhance your vocabulary of stitches and inspire you to use them in creative ways.

About the author: Susan Guagliumi is a contributing editor to Threads Magazine. As an education specialist within the machine-knitting industry, she regularly lectures and gives workshops nationwide.

"Susan Guagliumi has gone the extra row and given the machine knitter a book of enormous proportions"-Knitter's Magazine. (End quote from back of book).

I highly recommend this book to all machine knitters as a wonderful source of information and inspiration.