Beginner Knitting – Best Places to Learn How to Knit Online

When I learned how to knit, I was about eight years old. I didn’t really knit again until last year when I took a basic knitting refresher class that got me off and running again. I discovered though, that there is much more to knitting a real project than learning to cast on, and do stockinette and purl stitches. Here are some of my favorite websites and sources that can help you learn how to knit easily. Many of them have forums too so if you get frustrated, take your questions to experienced knitters and they’ll always be glad to help you out.

Here are some of my favorite sites for help with beginning knitting:

The Daily Knitter offers a long list of knitting articles and videos, including basic knitting instruction. They also offer a handy chart of knitting abbreviations, yarn weights, and a guide to the meaning of the care instruction symbols on skeins of yarn.

Learn to knit at About.com – covers every basic knitting question you might have- casting on, basic stitches, easy patterns, beginner knitting tips. About.com also offers Easy Knitting Patterns for Beginners to get you started.

YouTube How to Knit Videos offer visual tutorials in knitting for beginners. Even if you are more advanced, you can learn new stitches on YouTube.

Here is one knitting instruction video I liked because it goes through each step very slowly and up close. You can find one on any knitting topic or question you might have by going to YouTube and typing in your keywords.

Knitting Help.com offers free videos on learning to knit, from casting on to more advanced techniques. This website also offers a knitting forum so you can ask any other questions you might have.

The Craft Yarn Council’s Learning Center offers info and tips on beginner knitting and crochet too.

Lion Brand offers hundreds of free patterns and beginner knitting instructions too. There are videos and 34 tutorials on all basic knitting topics.

Knitting Pattern Central offers a huge, and free!, list of knitting patterns but they also offer knitting tutorials from basic to advanced.

Once you’ve got the basic knitting down pat, you can go back to most all of these websites for free easy knitting patterns too so keep the list handy for later use.

If you don’t mind spending a little money for books and DVD’s (which I like because I can refer back to them easily), Amazon offers several great options.

Knitting DVD’s

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Knitting got 5 star ratings on Amazon from 120 reviewers and only 11 had less than 5 stars! That’s a pretty powerful endorsement for a DVD on knitting.

If you have a favorite website to answer all your beginner knitting questions, feel free to post it in the comment section!

Books on knitting instruction

Stitch ‘N Bitch Knitting Handboo another winner with 234 five star ratings on Amazon. A fun and funny read with 40 great easy knitting patterns which you can do by learning the instructions in the book.

I love The Yarn Harlot’s books. They are fun and funny and contain lots of basic knowledge that a knitter will find handy.

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