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Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Stitch Dictionary

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This is the most complete knitting stitch dictionary ever published, with over 800 knitting patterns—including 100 entirely new patterns—covering everything from knit and purl to colorwork.

This ultimate stitch dictionary, a companion edition to Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book, compiles the best of the Vogue Knitting Stitchionary series into a single massive and comprehensive volume. Knit and purl textures, cables, lace, colorwork, edgings, and other unique combinations are covered by more than 800 stitches, including 100 brand-new examples. These stitches come from a variety of great designers and are as unique as their authors.

They were taken from authentic patterns that published in Vogue Knitting magazine. Use the patterns as-is or edit them, mix stitches for stunning effects, and get ideas for your own designs.

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Knit a Blanket with the Texture of a Ceiling

Knitwear designers can get inspiration from almost anything when it comes to re-creating a color scheme, an image or a texture in stitches. Sometimes the inspiration isn’t always obvious in the finished project, but sometimes it’s more literal. 

That’s the way it is with the Tin Ceiling Blanket from Purl Soho. Not just because the inspiration is in the name, but if you’ve ever seen one of these old ceilings you can see that the design of the blanket is quite similar to the pattern of the tin tiles. 

This is also a good example of the idea that you don’t have to use fancy stitch patterns or lots of color to make a big impact with your knits. This single-color blanket (designed by Gianna Mueller and inspired by a washcloth and towel set designed by Sandi Rosner) is made completely with knits and purls, other than slipped stitches at the beginning of rows to make neater edges. 

The pattern is written out row by row, but there’s also a chart, which means this project is a great opportunity to practice reading a chart where you can check your work against the written pattern if you need to. 

It comes in two sizes, a crib blanket and a throw. The yarn used in the sample is an organic cotton sold by the cone, which is a great way to get a large quantity of yarn and have fewer ends to weave in. In fact, you can knit either size of the blanket with just one cone of yarn, which isn’t inexpensive but makes you a great, sturdy, heirloom quality but still washable blanket you’ll use for years to come. (Of course you can use any sport weight yarn you like to make this blanket.)

Check out all the details and grab the free pattern from Purl Soho. 

[Photo: Purl Soho]