imple Knitting: A Complete How-To Knit Workshop with 20 Projects by Ericka Knight covers everything that a beginning knitter needs to know. I would have loved to have had this book when I was just starting. The illustrations of how to do knit and purl make it so almost anyone could figure it out. She covers the differences between different yarns and I agree with her bamboo needles are the best. Bamboo has a comfortable feel to it.

Her stitch gallery highlights each of the basic stitches with notes on how to do them. There is a reference and a terminology chart to refer to if you have forgotten something. I love the trouble shooting section. Just knowing that there are solutions will help a beginner to maintain interest in learning how to knit. She rates the projects by level of difficulty. When you are starting out you don’t necessarily know what would require more learned skills. Some of the projects in the back are too advanced, like a cardigan. I think would prefer another category like advanced for sweaters.

Overall, the only thing that I don’t like about this book is the lack of brighter and more energetic colors. This book would more enticing with more color. A lot of sepia tones, browns and creams are used in this book.

This is a great book for any beginner knitter’s library. It would be a great gift for someone who is thinking about starting to knit.

I received this book from FirstReads but that in no way influenced my thoughts or feelings in this review. ( )

I don't remember much about patterns from this book...but as I noted in my reading progress, this was the book that helped me figure out that I'd been knitting wrong for 4-5 months. : (I'd been knitting into the back of the stitch, FWIW.) And I learned something about what sort of pictures I can actually learn knitting techniques from. That's worth it, even if that's all I got. ( )