 | Teach Yourself Visually Knitting (Teach Yourself Visually) by Sharon Turner
Buy used from: $1.90 This book has clear directions and pictures. It will take you from basic knitting to more advanced stitches including cables and circular knitting.
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 | Knitting Experience by Sally Melville
Great instructions: This book teaches the basic garter stitch. After learning that stitch, each pattern adds new skills. The patterns in this book are more interesting than in most beginning books.
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 | Knitting Without Tears: Basic Techniques and Easy-to-Follow Directions for Garments to Fit All Sizes by Elizabeth Zimmermann
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.87 While this book is not as clear for a beginner as the previous books, Elizabeth Zimmerman's philosophy provides an interesting orientation to knitting .
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 | Stitch 'N Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook by Debbie Stoller
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.94 This was the book that got me started knitting. It provides information on gauge, yarn, community resources as well as knitting instruction and a variety of patterns.
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 | The Knitting Answer Book: Solutions to Every Problem You'll Ever Face; Answers to Every Question You'll Ever Ask by Margaret Radcliffe
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.38 This book is a good resource for answering questions. It's helpful for explaining knitting directions that use knitting words without explanation.
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 | One-Skein Wonders
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $8.49 Patterns of various difficulty and different weights. Lots of patterns that are easy to knit.
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