Jennifer Worick

Do you want to learn to knit? All it takes is a bit of moxie, yarn, a pair of needles?and Getting Started Knitting, of course!

Author Jennifer Worick takes readers through the process of knitting, from casting on to binding off a successful beginning project.

Getting Started Knitting is even more basic than other books, making no assumptions and taking great pains to avoid overwhelming knitting newbies with too much information too soon. Instead, the focus is on getting comfortable with the rhythm of the basic stitches.

This must-have resource includes all the basics in a warm friend-to-friend encouraging tone: casting on, knitting, purling, increasing, decreasing, binding off, basic stitch patterns (rib, seed, stockinette, garter) and using straight, circular and double-pointed needles.

With Getting Started Knitting, you will begin slowly?learning how to select yarn and needles, practicing knit and purl stitches?then step up to increasing, decreasing and simple stitch patterns. You will learn the lingo too: abbreviations, how to read a chart and more. Soon, you will have made your first scarf . . . then a hat, a pair of leg warmers, a shawl, a poncho, and before you know it, you will be your own knitting guru!

Hardbound, 144 pages, 8" x 8", 58 color photographs.