With yarns that are easy for beginners to use, this pocket-size 24-page booklet from Lion Brand Yarn gives clear, illustrated instructions and helpful tips that anyone can follow to learn how to knit, for a lifetime of pleasure and relaxation. It also includes 6 classic designs that are perfect for beginners (hat and scarf, unisex sweater, child's cable sweater, women's striped pullover, and an afghan worked diagonally). Encouragement-filled instructions are provided for casting on, making knit and purl stitches, garter stitch, stockinette stitch, ribbing, joining new yarn, gauge, common problems for beginners, increasing, decreasing, slipping stitches, making a cable, binding off, working into front and back loops, and finishing.