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According to my experience, these knitting patterns were not up to par. The instructions were confusing and the finished product did not look like the picture. The only pro was the variety of patterns. The cons outweighed this lone positive aspect.

This is "preliminary" because I haven't made any of the dogs yet. However, I went through the book carefully and compared photos to dogs I had or knew well. I had an Afghan Hound and I have to say the designers did a fantastic job creating a realistic looking knitted Afghan Hound. Mine (patches) was brindle but the main thing is the head shape, the muzzle, the posture and the huge amount of long long hair and they are perfect. The neighbor's IRISH (red) SETTER used to drive me home from…

If you've never knitted anything other than a scarf, pot holder or maybe hat then I wouldn't recommend this book unless you want to learn some new techniques first , as it is for knitters with little experience. In addition to the basics of increasing/subtracting, knitting, purling and increasing/decreasing in knit and purl rows, stockinette and garter stitch, you need to know things like casting on more stitches at the end of a row, slipping and slipping, PSSO, off. (winding and turning), slip