Easy instructions you can use, even if you've never picked up a pair of needles. Easy instructions you can use, even if you've never picked up a pair of needles. Make tops, ponchos, and skirts to wear, bags to carry, and jazz up your jeans and jackets with funky knitted details. Learn to knit making the fifteen projects included in this book.

Created specially for pre-teen girls, this colorful book teaches knitting, step by step. Beginning with a slipknot, casting on, knitting, purling, increasing, decreasing and yarn overs. Easy lessons show how to knit in the round, check your gauge and read a pattern. Eleven cool projects include wonderful wearables, gifts for friends, backpacks, blankets, bracelets and more!

This clearly written book begins by discussing types of yarn, needles, and other knitting equipment. The author explains the basic techniques of casting on, knit and purl stitches, combining stitches to create patterns, increasing and decreasing, binding off and more. Instructions on how to make pompoms, fringes, and braiding are also included.

This book is an excellent beginners' book abundantly illustrated with detailed color, how-to drawings and color photos of all the projects. From learning how to dye yarn with Kool-Aid to knitting bath puppets, a backpack, hat, socks, or sweater, this text will bring enjoyment to all!

Learning to knit can be enormous fun for five to ten year olds- especially when helped along by frisky animal characters whose antics make each lesson a delight.

With clear easy-to-follow instructions, kids find out how much fun it is to weave cool projects using everything from their hands to cardboard to a portable loom assembled from ordinary plumbing parts. (Adults can try too!) Make 15 fun, inexpensive, colorful projects including note cards, friendship bracelets, magic carpets, shoelaces and a West African blanket. Many of which can be completed in a single afternoon.

Knitgrrl is designed for teens and tweens, but is appropriate for beginning knitters of all ages. Through step-by-step photos and carefully arranged patterns, you'll build your knitting skills incrementally.

Knit grrl 2 has even more fun patterns and activities for knitters of all ages. You'll love the beaded jewelry chapter, the so-cool-it's-hot tank top, the no-worries sweater pattern anyone can knit…and that’s just the beginning. Of course, dozens of simple step-by-step photos are still included, with extra new techniques for you to learn.

Thirty-five easy patterns designed for teens. These patterns support unique embellishments to personalize projects. There are one-day "instant gratification" projects, a guide to selecting yarn & accessories, and even a section on top ten knitting problems and how to solve them.