📚 Knitting

Two needles and endless pattern: instructions and history, and the culture that picked the stitches back up.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject knitting in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Vogue Knitting on the Go	Trisha Malcolm	1999	41
	Knitting for dummies	Pam Allen	2002	10
	Fair Isle Knitting	Sarah Don	1978	9
	Khaki knitting book	Olive Whiting	1917	8
	Knitting New Mittens and Gloves	Robin Melanson	2008	8
	Mary Thomas's knitting book	Thomas, Mary	1938	7
	The complete book of progressive knitting	Ida Riley Duncan	1940	7
	Knitting in Vogue	Christina Probert	1982	7
	A treasury of knitting patterns	Barbara G. Walker	1968	6
	A 2nd Treasury Of Knitting Patterns	Barbara G. Walker	1970	6
	Glorious Knitting	Kaffe Fassett	1985	6
	Vogue Knitting	Trisha Malcolm	1999	6
	Weekend Knitting	Melanie Falick	2003	6
	Mary Thomas's book of knitting patterns - 1945, MacMillan Company	Thomas, Mary	1943	5
	Knit to Fit	Ida Riley Duncan	1963	5
	Patterns for guernseys, jerseys, and arans	Gladys Thompson	1971	5
	The encyclopedia of knitting techniques	Debby Robinson	1986	5
	The Beatrix Potter knitting book	Pat Menchini	1987	5
	Kaffe's Classics	Kaffe Fassett	1993	5
	Last-minute knitted gifts	Joelle Hoverson	2004	5
	Knitting Without Tears	Elizabeth Zimmermann	1971	4
	The machine knitter's dictionary	Linda Gartshore	1983	4
	A History of Hand Knitting	Richard Rutt	1987	4
	Traditional Island knitting	Pam Dawson	1988	4
	Knitting from the British Islands	Alice Starmore	1983	3
	Wit knits	George Hostler	1985	3
	The machine knitting book	Allen, John	1987	3
	Elegant Machine Knits	Valerie Carter	1988	3
	Folk knits	Melinda Coss	1990	3
	The Art of Fair Isle Knitting	Ann Feitelson	1996	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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