Knit a Hat: A Beginners Guide to Knitting by Alanna Okun

Knitting is an excellent handcraft and something people love the world over. For crafting newbies, knitting can seem highly daunting: You need needles (but what size?), yarn (but what weight?), and a pattern (but what kind?), and very quickly knitting can start to resemble another language, tricky to navigate and even harder to master.

Knit a Hat teaches you everything you need to know about the previously scary craft: the needles you‚ll need, the yarn to use, and tried-and-true techniques to get you started, keep you going, and help you wrap everything up. Alanna Okun is an expert knitter and offers very accessible instructions: Her idea of starting with a hat rather than a long scarf is sure to make this book easy for even the wariest of beginners.

Building on our crafting how-to series, Okun welcomes readers into the knitting community and invites them to knit a hat with confidence.