Everyone has heard the mantra 'Knitting is the new yoga' but sadly not everyone is lucky enough to have someone to show them the ropes and get them started on their very first row. Without a friend or relative to teach them how to start at the very beginning, often would-be knitters turn to the so-called 'beginners patterns' but these can be confusing, difficult to follow, and more often than not written in 'knit' rather than English. This book is a tried and tested guide for people at the very beginning of their knitting careers, looking for guidance and patterns for projects that they can use to make that first all-important step to'Beyond the Scarf'.
Aneeta Patel is an artist and knitting teacher living in East London. She has taught knitting professionally for several years and holds classes all over London. Specialising in beginners' knitting, Aneeta runs special events, knitting parties, group and one-on-one teaching sessions. She also runs Knitting SOS, a free service offering emergency knitting advice to (often frantic) knitters; it is held via a monthly drop-in clinic, telephone, text and email. For more information, see www.knittingsos.co.uk. Aneeta is involved with the Working Well Trust, a charity for Bangladeshi women with mental health problems and in collaboration with an art therapist, she also runs a workshop called 'Knitting for Quitting', helping smokers to give up.