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Kids Knit!: Simple Steps to Nifty Projects

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This is a good basic knitting book for kids. I'm helping teach my friend's daughters (ages 6 & 8) to knit, and these are good projects for young learners. The book shows good pictures and simple descriptions of each knitting step.
However, this book only shows ONE way to cast on -- the knitted cast-on. Most of us learned as children the slip cast on, sometimes called the loop cast on, which is just simple loops on the knitting needle. This is what my Grandma taught me first when I was about 6, and what I have taught my friend's girls. The girls have had enough trouble remembering even this simplest of cast-ons, they prefer to knit rather than cast on, so for now we're sticking to the easiest possible way. For a good book that shows this easiest slip cast on, try "Kids Learn to Knit" by Lucinda Guy.
Except for that one detail, the rest of the book is great! The projects are:
1. Washcloth
2. Headband
3. Sunglasses case
4. Doll blanket
5. Doll
6. Scrunchie
7. Amulet Bag
8. Ribbed Scarf
9. Cat Toy
10. House Cushion
11. Teddy Bear Puppet
12. Kerchief
13. Kite Bookmark
14. Pot Holder
15. Drawstring Purse
16. Fashion Doll Dress (for Barbie-type doll)
17. Backpack
18. Coaster
19. Place Mat
20. Tote Bag
The book shows clearly a number of techniques, including simple binding-off, making tassels and fringes, joining a new ball of yarn, knit and purl stitches, stockinette stitch, ribbing, twisted cord, making pom-poms, what abbreviations mean, simple increase and simple decrease, yarn over, picking up stitches, and I-cord. There are beautiful pictures of every project with pictures of cute kids knitting or using the finished projects. Overall, this is a great little book for your young knitter friends, and I recommend it, but not as their only knitting book.

I purchased a bulk set of this book for a knitting class with our homeschool co-op. I have a group of 17 that are ages 7 up through a couple of moms. After three weeks, some of them have taken off, read instructions on their own and are doing some amazing things. The others are still waiting for some personal guidance, but since I have this book as a resource, I know right where to go to show them what happens next. Several mothers that are not taking the class have even commented on how wonderfully easy the book is to understand even for a non-knitter.

My daughters and I learned how to knit using this book. Lots of fun, easy, practical things to knit.

A great book for young minds, and interested parents, for learning how to knit.

Diagrams are easy to follow. The initial steps took a few times to get it, but I think that my daughter is enjoying now, and her mother even more so.

Great book.

I bought this book for my young granddaughter....she loves it and it helped her to learn how to knit. One of the older girls picked up the book and knitted quite afew items

I was looking for help in teaching my 5 year old granddaughter to knit. This book was very helpful - even taught ME things I did not understand. There are also small projects that are perfect starters!

If you are a beginner like me and have not had any experience with knitting this is a fantastic book! Easy instructions on casting on, basic stitches, yarns, and a few easy projects. It has been very easy to teach my girls who are 6 and 8 years old how to knit - and very handy for first time knitters as adults! I am truly a beginner with knitting and found this book so helpful!

My 10 year old got this for Christmas and we are returning it. It is hard to follow the instructions and photos to do even the basics. There is no way the children in the book accomplished the projects in the illustrations. If it were for kids you'd think there'd be tips on what to do when you mak a mistake. We had more success finding free illustrations and watching people on youtube knitting with needles to learn.