The Knitting Book

DK, Frederica Patmore, Vikki Haffenden

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Dorling Kindersley
10 March 2026

Art & Architecture; Rural trades & skills; Knitting & crochet

Series: Ultimate Craft Guides

Everything you need to create flawless knitted clothes, accessories, gifts, and homeware

Cast on with confidence and master even the trickiest of stitches with The Knitting Book. This bestselling guide features over 250 step-by-step techniques, showing you everything from simple knit and purl stitches and techniques for casting on and off, to colourwork, cables, brioche, and lace, as well as how to knit in the round, turn a sock heel, and block knitted fabrics for a flawless finish.

Discover the right yarns and needles for any project, and test out your new-found skills with a library of over 120 stitch patterns. Complete with twenty projects including clothing and accessories, toys, and homeware, this is the ultimate guide for knitters of all abilities.

By: DK, Frederica Patmore, Vikki Haffenden
Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 282mm, Width: 232mm,
ISBN: 9780241764923
ISBN 10: 0241764920
Series: Ultimate Craft Guides
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 10 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Frederica Patmore has worked as a Design Consultant for Rowan Yarns, one of the biggest providers of luxury yarns in the world. She runs a number of classes in department stores and knitting shops, contributes to needlecraft publications, and is an accomplished knitting pattern designer. Vikki Haffenden is a textiles expert with a special focus in digital knit design and practice. Following a career in industry design practice and wide-ranging consultancy work, Vikki now teaches on computer knit design and theories of practice at the University of Brighton. She has worked on DK's The Knitting Book (2011), Knit Step by Step (2012), Big Book of Knitting (2013), and Baby & Toddler Knits Made Easy (2013).