starting out

[adventures_with_kat]

Hey guys

I've recenty lost a huge majority of my vision and have always been to art/crafty things and was looking at getting into knitting.
Do you guys think it is very visual?
Also any good book recommendations to use to help start out?

thanks in advance :-)

Comments

[untonuggan]

As for books, I really like "Knitting Rules!" by the Yarn Harlot aka Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (she also has a blog). Also, anything by Elizabeth Zimmerman can tell you a LOT about knitting and she is hysterical. Both of these wonderful writers give you freedom to play with your knitting and create your own patterns. They also give you good templates to add your own stitches to. For example: here's a basic hat pattern, now add whatever you want to it. Kind of like: here's basically how you make cookies, but you can add whatever kind of toppings you want or change the flour or what have you.

Neither of them has actual instructions on how to knit and purl. I started out a few months ago with Knitting for Dummies (from a used bookstore) and found it rather impossible, because while the info was good the drawings were done by someone who did not knit. I ended up looking at Youtube videos to learn how to do the stitches themselves, and there are plenty available. I don't know if that's something you'd be able to do, but the audio might help at least.

Good websites: Knitty (an online knitting magazine) and Ravelry (an online knitting community). Both have free patterns.

Also, there was a post in this comm recently about knitting books.