One Skein Wonders Book Release

One Skein Wonders has released it’s new book.

256 pages, 8 x 8 1/2, two-color photographs and illustrations throughout, full-color photo gallery of projects and has a RRP of $18.95 ISBN 1580176453

Hot off the heels of the uber-successful One-Skein Wonders, 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders arms knitters with 101 more unique and captivating projects–all of which call for only a single skein of yarn!

This time around, editor Judith Durant scoured the country to gather the favorite one-skein patterns from America’s knitwear designers. The result is this one-of-a-kind collection of single-skein patterns, all of which are arranged by yarn weight so knitters can easily find broad ranges of possibilities for those orphan skeins.

A scrapbook of tastes and styles that celebrates the ingenuity of knitters nationwide, this collection of 101 projects comes to the rescue of every knitter wondering what to do with their lonely skeins, and proves once and for all that there’s no such thing as leftover yarn.

When I discovered Kate Atherley’s book Circular Knitting for Beginners and Beyond, I wasn’t sure there was enough to say about circular knitting to fill a book. It’s a pretty short book (144 pages) and includes 10 patterns to practice working in the round on small projects, and it provides a decent introduction to the various ways of working in the round.

The book covers using double pointed knitting needles, flexible double points and circular knitting needles with cables. It talks about working using the full circumference of a circular needle and various ways to work smaller circumference projects, such as using DPNs, magic loop and knitting with two circular knitting needles.

In addition there’s a discussion of preventing problems like twists and ladders, swatching in the round without actually swatching in the round, grafting, blocking and weaving in ends.

More specialized techniques likes knitting from the center out, stranded colorwork, helical knitting and jogless stripes are also explored, as well as working pieces like socks or mitts two at a time.

There’s also some information about seamless sweaters, including the different sweater designs that can be worked seamlessly (and why you might want seams in your sweaters) and how they are worked from the top down or the bottom up.

There are 10 patterns in the book, including a basic stockinette stitch cowl and one with a deliberate twist, wrist warmers, mitts and a pair of colorwork mittens, a hat worked in a solid color or in helical stripes, toe up and top down socks and a beret. It would have been nice to have a basic sweater pattern, too, since the book does talk about working larger garments with circular needles, but it’s still a nice collection of basic patterns worked in the round.

If you’re already comfortable working in the round in different ways, I’m not sure there’s much for you to learn in this book, but it is a good reference for people learning circular knitting or who maybe haven’t tried all the techniques yet or need skill building projects to try.

About the book: 144 pages, paperback, 10 patterns. Published 2026 by David & Charles. Suggested retail price $24.99.

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