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Summary: Beautiful socks, but book leaves some to be desired
Review: First of all, the sample socks and patterns from Turkey are fabulous. The designs are very striking, especially in the bright colors the Turkish people love. My only complaint is with the layout of the book itself. The title font is difficult to read and the graphs are ... weird. They are very large, say 5 stitches per inch as opposed to 10 per inch you usually see. So it's hard to see the whole pattern in a single glance. Second, the symbol used in the graph to indicate the patter is weird, a tilde ~ and it again makes the pattern hard to see at a glance. I found it most useful to copy and reduce the pages and then color the pattern squares in with more readable symbols. This is not a book for beginner knitters. If you don't already know hot to knit socks you'll have a difficult time. If you already know how to knit, you'll love the patterns and find many uses for them beyond socks.
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Summary: Beautiful socks, but book leaves some to be desired
Review: First of all, the sample socks and patterns from Turkey are fabulous. The designs are very striking, especially in the bright colors the Turkish people love. My only complaint is with the layout of the book itself. The title font is difficult to read and the graphs are ... weird. They are very large, say 5 stitches per inch as opposed to 10 per inch you usually see. So it's hard to see the whole pattern in a single glance. Second, the symbol used in the graph to indicate the patter is weird, a tilde ~ and it again makes the pattern hard to see at a glance. I found it most useful to copy and reduce the pages and then color the pattern squares in with more readable symbols. This is not a book for beginner knitters. If you don't already know hot to knit socks you'll have a difficult time. If you already know how to knit, you'll love the patterns and find many uses for them beyond socks.
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Summary: Pretty book, but not enough instruction
Review: I can only conclude that the author has no interest in instructing her readers to actually knit the lovely Turkish socks she presents in this book, or to accurately duplicate the patterns from her diagrams. She confesses that the knitting instructions are sketchy, but they would have been much improved with the addition of just two more simple diagrams illustrating the unusual toe and heel forming methods. Likewise, I have found her charted renditions of Turkish patterns to often be incomplete and/or inaccurate. There is nothing quite so disappointing and aggravating to discover several rows later that the diagram one has been following faithfully has been carelessly rendered, necessitating tedious (and sometimes impossible) corrections. The photographs are very nice, but the flat front view of the socks do not present them in their entire complexity. All in all, while this is an inspiring book in ways, I would not recommend it to anyone except the most die-hard ethnological knitters.
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Summary: Pretty book, but not enough instruction
Review: I like the book for the pictures, but her instructions leave me in the dark. I may use some of the designs for hat or headband patterns, but that's about it. Worth picking up used, not new.
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Summary: Good introduction to Turkish socks
Review: The cast-on method for Eastern (Turkish) socks is a bit wierd; even after a lesson I had difficulty to do it. But this book explains it very well. I don't knit Turkish socks if I want a pair of utilitarian socks in a hurry. But I do use this book if I want a special pair for clogs or sandals, or a pair of slippers in bright colors. You can use the charts for other things, like vests.
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