Skill Set: Beginning Knitting is small, smart, and encouraging—designed to teach new knitters everything they need to know, and nothing they don’t.

Through nine short lessons filled with clear illustrations, Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne share decades of knitting know-how in an easy, approachable way. You’ll learn each skill step by step, practice with small swatches, and finish with a simple hat project to put it all together.

Lessons include:

1. Supplies, casting on, knit stitch, binding off

2. Purl stitch and combining knits and purls

3. Basic shaping: increases and decreases

4. Knitting in the round

5. Basic lace and cables

6. Colorwork: stripes, stranded, and intarsia

7. Finishing: weaving in ends, seaming, blocking

8. Patterns, yarn, and gear

9. Fixing mistakes

A perfect companion for beginners or anyone teaching someone to knit—this little book makes learning the craft simple, clear, and fun!