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A quick book review

When 60 Quick Knits , published by Cascade Yarns, arrived at my LYS the books flew out the door. We love to knit baby items and the charity knitters saw some real potential in the book. Personally, I'm always looking for a quick baby knit to give as a shower gift for coworkers and their new arrivals.  Then at our weekly gatherings I began to hear an under current about how this pattern was confusing or how another knitter had to "fudge" just a little to make it come together. I hadn't knit anything from the book but when my knitting friend Janet asked me to give a particular pattern a try I nodded and worked on it over the weekend so that I could give her a thumbs up or down.   In the end, the sweater worked out but I did see two problems with this individual pattern: 1. On page 22 inc row 2 , the pattern tells you what to do for that row but does not go one to tell you that you then need to knit the next row. (It does on the other rows of instructions and so ma