Super Easy Knitting for Beginners - (New Shoe Press) by Carri Hammett (Paperback)

About the Book

"Super Easy Knitting for Beginners is your best guide to learning how to knit through easy, simple, engaging projects, so you'll have fun and feel successful while learning easy designs. Techniques and projects are all in full-color with step-by-step instructions and photos to teach essential techniques ... so you'll always feel confident. The briefest and most comprehensive beginner's book on knitting available, this book starts at the very beginning of your knitting journey: selecting yarn, needly types and sizes, other tools and accessories, knitting gauge, casting on, forming stitches, and reading patterns."--Back cover.

Book Synopsis

This accessible beginner's guide covers everything you need to know to start knitting, featuring clear, step-by-step, photo-illustrated instructions.

Want to learn how to knit but are not sure how to start? With Super Easy Knitting for Beginners, adapted from Carri Hammet's best-selling Knitting 101, you will feel confident in your skills quickly and eliminate frustrating mistakes and missteps.

Learn what you need, how to read patterns, how to select yarn, and how to troubleshoot problems and turn yarn into charming knitted accessories and clothing. Building skills through fun projects, you will find success quickly and easily while gaining confidence to try another project.

Super Easy Knitting for Beginners includes:

• Knitting basics
• How to get started
• Tools and materials
• Right-handed and left-handed knitting
• Basic knitting stitches
• How to read a knitting pattern
• Knitting tips and tricks
• Troubleshooting mistakes
• Fun beginner-level projects, including scarves, baby blanket, felted bag, shawl, and more

This is the most comprehensive beginner's book available, yet it won't overwhelm you with details and instruction you don't need or want, so you can start enjoying your knitting hobby immediately.

About the Author

Carri Hammett is the original owner of Coldwater Collaborative, a gem of a yarn shop in Excelsior, Minnesota. Carri loves to collaborate with both her customers and her readers as together they express their love of knitting and expand their knitting knowledge and skill. She is the author of Mittens and Hats for Yarn Lovers; Scarves and Shawls for Yarn Lovers; Ready, Set, Knit Cables; and Knitting 101.