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No-Rules Knitting at the Teen Knit Cafe

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This is a FABULOUS and fun how-to-knit DVD for beginners and more advanced young knitters alike. The host, Chelsea Povall, is warm, informed, and engaging. In addition to the basics, it covers various aspects of knitting such as picking up dropped stitches and felting. The viewer can easily jump around on the DVD to any section. It's focused on encouraging young people that knitting is constructive, creative, and cool! Nicely done. I'll be giving several of these out at the holidays.

This is by far the best video that teaches knitting--for all ages (I haven't been a teen for a very long time! I do have teenage children though). The instructor is great, the lighting is great, and the camera angle is over the RIGHT shoulder, not the left. For some reason, seeing it over the right shoulder makes it much easier for me to learn. Approximately the first half of this video can be viewed on Youtube which is what convinced me to buy it. I rarely write reviews for anything but really wanted to promote this video in hopes that they'll come out with Volume II.

Although I am more than a decade past the teen years, I am a brand new knitter and decided to give the DVD a try. It is very well done, with simple instructions and great demonstrations. The dialogue can be a bit much at times, but it's also pretty cute and takes me back to when I was a youngster. Definitely recommended if you are a beginner student of knitting.

I decided to try this video to learn how to knit even though I'm not a teen. I figured it would be good for a beginner and it definitely taught me how to knit. It also had some cute little projects that are super easy for beginners, which I appreciated. The dialogue was kind of cheesy, but the video showing the different stitches and troubleshooting some of the more common problems or mistakes were very helpful. While I won't be trying all of the projects (lip balm holder? really?), there are a few that I've already tackled that came out great. I also like the fact that I can pop the DVD back in now and use the little A-Z table of contents to go look up specific topics later without watching the whole video again.

The one thing I wish they covered, or maybe would put out a 2nd video for is what to do next. I now find myself looking around for new patterns and projects, but I don't know how to read knitting patterns with all their codes, or they take on things a little more advanced like how to come to a point by decreasing rows by one or two stitches which I'd like to see some instruction on now. Sounds like a job for No Rules Knitting II!