Knit & Purl Pets: 20 Patterns for Little Pets With Big Personalities Paperback – September 3, 2010

Very clever subjects although I found the odd discrepancy with stitch numbers. Just have to keep count and compare. Advertised as easy patterns which I would dispute, certainly not for the beginner. I've enjoyed working with them just the same.

I have not had the time to do any of the projects inthis beautiful handcrafted book but I have glanced through some of the patterns and am certain even the beginner knitter would have no problems following them.

What an adorable collection of knitted critters! The pictures are great - the projects both fun and challenging! BUT there are corrections needed - I began the white hen and ended up frustrated beyond words. I've written to the publisher and not heard back although they promise a 24 hour turnaround. We NEED the corrections posted online! The author has not included a M1 in her abbreviations and one must guess how she wants an increase made. There is an error in the chicken pattern and I can't find it. HELP!!!

I tried making the chicken several times, and thought it was me who messed something up... until the 4th time, and I knew there must be something wrong with the pattern. I checked the authors online site, and wrote her for the corrections. She gladly sent me a pdf with the corrections, and there are A LOT of them in the book. Cute patterns, but make sure you e-mail the author for the corrections, BEFORE you get started!

I love chickens !!! The other animals in this book are great as well but it's the chicken I wanted to make. The book has good directions and images that help you get your very own chicken !!!

Shipped well. Great condition and excellent book!

This book is well illustrated and well written I really like it. I have knitted a few animals from different pattern books but this book keeps me interested. I was so pleased when it arrived just before christmas. I have'nt had chance to make anything from it yet as I have the grand children staying for 3 weeks,but once there gone I hope knit something from the book.

I was very excited to get this book. I'm a avid knitter and this kind of stuff is right up my alley. I started knitting the chicken and the first mistake in the pattern was in row 6 where it says kft instead of kfb. Then after Rnd 35 it says to repeat rows 26-30 three times. Well, that didn't work at all. I started looking online to see if there were any corrections for the pattern and I finally found some on Ravalry. You are supposed to repeat rows 32-35 three times. Now I'm on the COMB section of the pattern and under Row 3 the directions say picot 5, k1, picot 4, etc... Well, I haven't done that before and there were no instructions in the book to clarify how to do it. I looked online and there were a number of different instructions for picot some casting on and some yo, not sure how it was supposed to be done so I'm just doing it my own way. This pattern is rated easy and I'm an experienced knitter and find it frustrating and confusing. In the time it has taken me to figure this out I could have knitted 2 hats! The animals are really cute but I'm not so sure I want to try another pattern.