Kids Learn to Knit Book

Learning to knit can be enormous fun for five-to-ten-year-olds?especially when helped along by animal characters whose antics make each lesson a delight.In this delightful new book, Lucinda Guy and François Hall join talents to ensure that even young children will succeed in mastering the basic steps of knitting. Using simple language and witty animal characters, each stage of knitting is set out in a series of lessons; each lesson is then followed by a project to try out new skills. In addition to the usual steps?from casting on, knit and purl stitches, increasing and decreasing, to casting off?there are a variety of other techniques, like dolly-knitting and finger-knitting and making pompoms and fringes. A fun-filled primer for a new generation of knitters. The author of And So to Bed and Handknits for Kids, Lucinda Guy is an established designer specializing in children?s knitwear.Read More