Stitch'n Bitch - The Knitter's Hand Book - Debbie Stoller

It's the essential guide for chicks with sticks - from the tools of the trade to the knitty-gritty of techniques and patterns, all with easy-to-follow step-by-step illustrated techniques.  Stockinette stitch, rib stitch, seed stitch.  Increasing and decreasing.  All the bells and whistles: fringes, tassels, cables, intarsia, crab stitch, and Fair Isle.  Plus the stitch doctor's own special bag of tricks and how to hook up with other knitters.  After the how-to comes the why-to: forty hip, stylish patterns, as tood for beginners as they are for purly pros.