Stitches, vol. 1: Book Review

Updated June 27, 2023.

Stitch dictionaries are tons of fun, they give us lots of ideas for stitches, but often they have one drawback, they’re just too big to carry with your project. I’ve long been jealous of my knitting friends, who can just take along a card with their scarf project on it. Ruth Schmuff has developed a wonderful solution to this problem in her extensive stitch dictionaries, this is the first of five, most available in a size small enough to go in your project bag.

Stitches CD, Volume 1, has over 300 stitches, charted, classified. The diagrams are high-resolution, numbered, and easy to read.

Copies of the stitches are in two directories. One is organized by name, and is perfect for finding a diagram when you know what you want. The other is organized by stitch families. These directories make the most wonderful browsing. If you know the type of
stitch you want, you can go to the directory and browse for stitches that will work.

While the book does not have text, it has fantastic diagrams, as good as any I have seen. The stitch sequence is numbered clearly. In stitches where there is more than one step, there are several numbered diagrams. There is also a diagram of the block of the stitch. Each page has the stitch name clearly at the top.

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