Modern Daily Knitting Skill Set: Skill Set, Beginning Knitting

Everything a new knitter needs to know, short and sweet and smart.

• 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

An emphasis in practice in each lesson, so 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.