Best Resource to Learn to Knit?

[voguevixen]

I have to second the Stitch & Bitch book. I already knew how to knit but aside from that it explains so much I’d never learned or considered before in the most clear-cut way. (What a purl stitch looks like as opposed to a knit stitch, how to modify a pattern, how to READ a pattern to begin with, etc.) It makes it seem like things are fun and no big deal and encourages experimentation.

For example when I was relearning how to knit I just grabbed some yarn I liked and started working with it. My husband said “what are you knitting?” and I said “I don’t know yet.” (I made it into a hat, after the fact, heh.)

Also for anything complicated, like a cable or anything just think: test swatch. It takes maybe 30 minutes/an hour but will save days of frustration.

[twickster]

@lissener

A note to all beginning knitters: Please learn the Continental way, instead of the English way. This will serve you well in the future: for all but a few people who have weird genes or something, it’s faster, gives more consistent tension, and is much more versatile for color work or knitting multiple layers.

Please. You’ll thank me for it later.

Thank you – I feel vindicated. Though people get weirded out by what I’m doing, I honestly can’t figure out why English isn’t considered “backwards.” (The yarn goes over the left needle, so, duh, keep the yarn on the left.)

[Sehmket]

@YogSosoth

Grandmothers!

Ha! That’s hilarious! Clearly you don’t know either of my grandmothers!