Guide to Knitting: (Learn to Knit with More Than Thirty Cool, Easy Patterns)

chicks with sticks is the best knitting book I've come across...I have stitch-n-bitch and a couple of other beginner books but this one is my favorite because it uses new yarn types and only has easy beginner and intermediate beginner patterns in it. nothing is very intimidating and the stuff really is stuff that you'd want to make and wear or give as a gift...that's a rare find in knitting books.

Awesome book! I am a first time knitter...never even touched a knitting needle before and this book had me knitting in one afternoon!

It is hard to find a knitting book that actually has cool ideas in it that don't look so handmade or out of fashion. This book definately represents a new generation of knitting. It takes you through the easiest project to the harder ones, so you just do the projects in order to learn how to knit more advanced styles. Easy to follow, but the only draw back is they could have more directions on each project and more illustrations of where your needles will be for each new stitch.

I absolutely love this book! It covers some the basics; for example they'll show you how to do a garter stitch and the patterns after are garter stitch only. Then they'll show you how to purl, and the patterns after incorporate purling, adding onto the regular knit stitch. Of course, if you're more advanced at knitting then this book probably isn't for you, but I, as a beginner, absolutely love it! The patterns are pretty neat too (I have yet to finish or start one).

GUIDE TO KNITTING is a guide for beginning knitters, covering all the basic terminology, instructions and providing guides to basic patterns through thirty simple, contemporary fashion projects. Diagrams, assembly instructions and more make for a compelling read.