The Beginner's Guide to Knitting

Lynne Rowe covers everything you need to get started: essential tools and materials, how to hold your needles, make your first stitches, fasten off and read a pattern. Clear step-by-step photographs and a handy fold-out flap with knitting abbreviations make it accessible for all, whether you are knitting your first stitches or revisiting the basics.

Take small steps and familiarize yourself with the terminology and techniques to master the essentials of knitting in no time at all. Lynne combines helpful, friendly guidance with 8 colourful modern projects, each one teaching and consolidating a new technique from increasing and decreasing to changing colour and joining seams.