How to Knit: With 100 techniques and 20 easy projects (Mollie Makes)

Description

The complete beginners' guide to knitting with 20 exclusive step-by-step projects. The team behind Mollie Makes magazine have brought together all their favourite knit designers to share their tips, stories and beautiful projects. Knitting may seem complicated, but in fact there are just two stitches you need to learn. Once you have mastered knit and purl, you can knit pretty much anything. The beginner's section starts with a run-through of the basic tools and equipment you'll need, as well as a handy guide to choosing yarn. Once you're ready to start, learn the best way to hold your needles, and tackle the different cast-on methods to work out which works best for you. Once you've cast on, you are ready to make those all-important first stitches and choose your first project. Make a gift for a loved one with patterns for a baby blanket, bouquet of woolly flowers or a cute bulldog puppy. Bring your home up to date by making an on-trend footstool, plant pot or neon rug. Or wear your makes with pride - whether you go for a classic pair of socks, or a more daring pompom headband or loopy poncho.

Mollie Makes is the UK's most successful lifestyle and craft magazine, bringing you the best of contemporary craft, with a look inside the homes of the world'smost creative crafters, tutorials on inspiring makes, round ups of the most covetable stash and tours of the crafty capitals of the world. The Mollie Makesteam have hand-picked projects from their favourite international designers for each book in the series, which perfectly complements the magazine's uniqueeditorial style and first class design.