These are questions, comments, needs, and concerns often made by someone wanting to sign up for beginning knitting lessons.

When I started teaching knitting lessons for a local yarn shop, I was given an outline used by the previous teacher and was instructed to follow her general course outline. The following six lessons are a result of her notes as well as fifteen years of teaching beginners how to knit.

The first three lessons should be gone through in the order presented.  Each new skill builds on the previous lessons and is a logical progression from learning to knit, then to purl, and finally to knit and purl in the same row.

Each two hour session started with a review of any knitting that had been done since the last lesson. Mistakes and questions were answered before the current lesson started. As knitting skills increased, the questions became more wide ranging. If these questions touched on a future topic, that lesson was offered immediately.  As a consequence, the last three lessons rarely went exactly as outlined here and can be done in any order that suits your needs.

Cables are a way of expanding your knowledge of knitting and purling in the same row.  Lesson Five adds tehniques that are commonly used in actually making a garment like shoulder shaping and joining shoulders. 

Finally Lesson Six reviews assumptions that pattern designers assume the knitter knows. Helpful tips in chosing a pattern, needle and yarn recommendations, altering patterns are a few of the techniquws covered.

So, where are the promised lessons to fix mistakes?

It is generally assumed in the knitting world that every knitting technique actually started as a mistake.  ?

A lifetime of watching accomplished knitters struggle with understanding the fabric they are creating.

While the lesson content remained m