After getting a request if I knew about any “How-To-Knit” books I’m guessing that there are many people out there who have no clue how to knit. I have looked around the net for links on how to get started. They can explain it much better than with my poor pedagogy skills and have some pretty explanatory images.

Of course, nothing beats being taught skills by a real person, but it seems like not many know crafting skills these days.

• The first thing you want to do is making a slip knot. This should be pretty easy and is explained, with pictures, on this site.

• The next step is casting on. You basically make a foundation of stitches for your knitting project.
  I’ve seen many different ways of casting on and here is the method I usually use. It may look a bit complicated, but don’t give up.
  Here is another method that seem to be common and a list of 5 different ways can be found here.

• When you have made the desired number of stitches you are ready for the knitting itself. As you are a newbie to knitting, all you need to know right now is the “knit stitch” (or garter stitch). I like the explanation on this site.

Hope this post was a bit helpful for all the upcoming knitters. Get ready to get hooked, because knitting can be very addictive 🙂
What is cooler than creating something yourself!?!

Thanks to my mate Tord for letting me use his photo of my knitting.

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