knitting

"Raina Petree is crushing her senior year, until her boyfriend dumps her, the drama club (basically) dumps her, the college of her dreams slips away, and her archnemesis triumphs. Things aren't going much better for Millie Goodwin. Her father treats her like a servant, and the all-boy Mock Trial team votes her out, even after she spent the last three years helping to build its success. But than-- an advice columnist unexpectedly helps Raina find new purpose in a pair of knitting needles and a politically active local yarn store. This leads to an unlikely meeting in the girls' bathroom, whew Raina inspires Millie to start a rival team. The two join together and recruit four other angry girls not only to take Mock Trial, but to smash the patriarchy in the process" --Jacket flap.

Contains more than 30 homespun craft projects for young crafters includingmaking bags, dolls, bracelets, hats, and more. The book is divided into three sections, on knitting, sewing, and embroidery, and each one begins with a primer on basic techniques and stitches.

Offers a glossary of knitting techniques and terms, instructions for different knitting projects, and hundreds of diagrams and illustrations showcasing the stages of the knitting process from start to finish. Offers advice for choosing the right needles and yarns, lessons on basic stitch techniques, how to shape one's work, and advice on reading patterns and correcting mistakes.

A how-to book about the hottest new knitting techinique -- arm knitting! It's fast and easy, and this book has 30 projects from scarves and vests to blankets and rugs that will help you knit big, impactful, and impressive items in no time flat--.

Contains photographs, ideas, and instructions for transforming old wool sweaters into bags and purses, skirts, hats, and other wearable items, and includes discussion of materials, embroidery, knitting, and sewing.

Provides tips and instructions for knitting.

Because the old grandmother can't find a place to live when she arrives in a small city, she knits herself a home and grandchildren to keep her company. But when she tries to take them to the local school, they are turned away for being different.

Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.

Provides beginners with an illustrated guide to the basic skills and techniques of knitting. Features step-by-step instructions, color photographs, online content, and twenty projects. Projects include scarves, home decor, blankets, a phone case, bags, hats, and shawls.