Skill Set: Beginning Knitting

Skill Set: Beginning Knitting

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There’s never been a how-to-knit book like this. It’s little. Smart. Encouraging. In 9 short lessons, with dozens of clear illustrations, Modern Daily Knitting teaches everything a new knitter needs to know, and nothing they don’t.

Filled with 9 lessons, drawing on decades of knitting experience by Kay and Ann.
  • Lesson 1 Supplies, Casting On, Knit Stitch, Binding Off
  • Lesson 2 Purl Stitch, Combining Knits and Purls
  • Lesson 3 Basic Shaping: Increases and Decreases
  • Lesson 4 Knitting in the Round
  • Lesson 5 Basic Lace and Cables
  • Lesson 6 Basic Colorwork: Stripes, Stranding Intarsia
  • Lesson 7 Finishing: Weaving in Ends, Seaming, Blocking
  • Lesson 8 Patterns, Yarn, and Gear
  • Lesson 9 Fixing Mistakes

With an emphasizes on practice in each lesson, there are swatches to make for each technique. There’s just one pattern, for a simple hat, that lets a new knitter try out the techniques.