Author Karen Hemingway presents full how-tos for all the essentials of knitting, including choosing needles and yarn, casting on, binding off, increasing and decreasing, creating texture, working with multiple colors, fixing mistakes, and finishing. Then

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