Get Started: Knitting: Learn Something New

by Susie Johns

Overview

Have you always wanted to learn how to knit, but don't know how to get started? Get Started: Knitting is your perfect, patient teacher, taking you from complete beginner to being able to complete 14 step-by-step knitting projects. Learn how to cast on and knit your first rows, then start simple with scarves and cushions. Build on your skills with a cuddly children's toy and cozy leg warmers, and show off with a beautiful baby cardigan, a lovely sweater, and much more. Packed with advice, reminders, and help when things go wrong, Get Started: Knitting is your first step toward a lifelong passion for this enjoyable craft.

More than any other series on the market, DK's Get Started series simulates carefully structured classroom lessons, an approach that allows you to custom-build courses with practical lessons and themed projects. Nothing's assumed, and everything's explained; each book answers fundamental questions, identifies the subject's basics, and provides step-by-step explanations and assessments so you can fulfill your own unique potential.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781465401977
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	12/17/2012
Series:	Get Started
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Susie Johns studied fine arts at the Slade School of Fine Art in London before working as a magazine and partworks editor for 11 years, specializing in cooking and crafts. She has since written and illustrated books on a variety of creative subjects, including knitting, crochet, embroidery, and paper crafts, and has had features and interviews published in a wide range of magazines. As a crochet designer, Susie’s creative skills are in great demand, not only for making garments and accessories, but also for creating novelty crochet items such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, animals, birds, dolls, mascots, and puppets. Susie teaches drawing and painting at an adult education college in Greenwich, London, and runs workshops on knitting, crochet, and customizing clothes.

Table of Contents

Key Techniques13 Ho

3

How to Hold Yam a

3213 Knit On C

3413 Cable Cas

3613 Backward Loop Cast

3713 Long-tail Cast On

3813 Knit Stitch

4013 Purl Stitc

4113 Cast Offs 4213 Seam

4413 Add a New Color 5213 Da

5313 Fringes

Tassels 5512

Simple S

6412 Pro

Sim

4613

5013

Tablet Cover

5113 Striped Scarf

Four-patch

6013

Build On It

Key Techniques13

Simple Increases 7213 Yarn

76

Simple Decreases 80

Pom-poms 841

Embroider on Knit

Knit in the Ro

9213 Work with Doubl

Work a Simpl

10013 Knit Me

10213 Textures

Simple Twist 116

Cables 118

Attach a Fastener 126

Stitch Galleries13

10413 Textured Stiches 12012

Bunny Toy

8613 Leg Warmers 96

Monkey Toy 10

Cabled Cushion

3 Take

Key Techniqu

Slip Stitches

13413

Slip Stitches Purlwise

Knit Through

13613

Smooth Diagonal Ca

13713 Knit

13813 Pic

13913

140

Block Knits 14113 Cast-of

14813

15813 Knit

17013 Chain Eyelet 1721

Open Eyelet 17312 S

Slip-S

16013

Fair Isle Patterns

Intarsia Motifs 16413 Lace

Projects to Try13

14

Baby's Cardigan

Mittens 154

Fair Isle Arm Wa

16613 Peekaboo Lace Sc

18013 Queen of Heart

18401 Index 188

Acknowled

192